September 29, 2025, 1:00 p.m.

Lecture: We are Your Primates

Panel: Performing Art-Science at the Limits of Ecological Uncertainty

Together with: Michael Klipphahn-Karge, Emre Sünter

Moderator: Robert Fischer

Conference: Performing Transformation: Shifting Landscapes in Art, Science, and Technology

TU Dresden, Andreas-Pfitzmann-Bau, Nöthnitzer Str. 46, 01187 Dresden

September 29–30, 2025

Organized and hosted by Dr. Özgün Eylül İşcen

Performing Transformation is a two-day event at TU Dresden that examines how knowledge is produced, embodied, and challenged in times of rapid social change at the intersections of art, science, and technology. The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers, artists, and practitioners to shed light on performative and collaborative research practices in the context of economic, political, cultural, ecological, and technological transformations.

The conference is organized by inter- and transdisciplinary institutions at TU Dresden, including the SchauflerLab@TU Dresden, TUDiSC, the Interactive Science Lab, the research priority area Societal Change, and the Artist-in-Residence program S+T+ARTS Ec(h)o based at the Office of Academic Heritage (Kustodie).

Bis uns das Licht uns einimmt

Opening: September 26, 2025, 7 p.m.

In the third exhibition of the newly founded Raw Lemon Gallery, the medium of photography—and specifically the subject of portraiture—is explored. On view are works by five contemporary photographic artists from different generations. Margit Emmrich, Emanuel Mathias, Volker Renner, Anett Stuth, and Jule Würfel each find their own distinctive approach to portraying portraiture, corporeality, or the human condition. What unites them is their modernist expansion, intensification, or questioning of the genre. The exhibition is curated by Björn Siebert.

With works by Margit Emmrich, Emanuel Mathias, Volker Renner, Anett Stuth & Jule Würfel

Curated by Björn Siebert

Raw Lemon Gallery

Franz-Flemming-Str. 9

04179 Leipzig

Opening hours: Fri, Sat 1—6 p.m. and by appointment

Closing event: November 1, 2025, 7 p.m.

www.rawlemongallery.com

Opening on Thursday, September 25, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Exhibition runs until August 31, 2027

Merseburg University of Applied Sciences

Main Building D, Foyer 3rd Floor (Hg/D/3)

Eberhard-Leibnitz-Straße 2

06217 Merseburg

September 3–6, 2025

4S Conference Seattle (50th Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science)

September 4, 2025, 1:30 p.m., Convention Center

Panel: Science–Society Communication about Global Challenges

Panel Organizer: Andreas Metzner-Szigeth

Lecturers: Tommaso Durante, Rachael Haya Diamond, Emanuel Mathias

Lecture: We Are Your Primates: New Perspectives on Global Challenges in Field Primatology Through Artistic Research

This trip is funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

On the occasion of C/O Berlin‘s twenty-fifth birthday, this group exhibition takes a look at close to two decades of the C/O Berlin Talent Award. This unique prize for emerging talents has been an integral part of C/O Berlin‘s programming since 2006. Over ninety talents have been honored since then—forty-seven pairs from art and theory. Documentary in Flux is the first exhibition to look back on the C/O Berlin Talent Award. It presents the work of fourteen prizewinners to shed light on the transformation of documentary strategies in the contemporary photographic discourse, from the established genre of documentary photography to staged documentaries, the expansion of the concept of media, and visions of the future.

With works by/ Mit Werken von Sibylle Fendt (2006), Tobias Zielony (2007), Pepa Hristova (2008), Ivonne Thein (2008), Janina Wick (2008), Friederike Brandenburg (2010), Willem Popelier (2012), Florian van Roekel (2012), Emanuel Mathias (2015), Sasha Kurmaz (2016), Sylvain Couzinet-Jacques (2019), Anna Ehrenstein (2020), Adji Dieye (2021) und Karolina Wojtas (2022).
 

C/O Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 22-24, 10623, Berlin

https://co-berlin.org/en/program/exhibitions/documentary-flux
 

Emanuel Mathias und Laura Bierau

The contribution presents a current Artistic Research project at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences. The focus is on the self-conception and image of the engineering sciences, as well as the transfer of knowledge to the region, which includes the industrial sites of Leuna and Schkopau. The artist Emanuel Mathias accompanied a research team and alumni of the university for one year, examining their work and knowledge processes, rituals and gestures, as well as the participants’ self-perception. Artistic Research interweaves science and art in an interdisciplinary manner, condensing complex topics in a sensory way and potentially leading to innovative, aesthetic insights. Artistic Research can enrich science communication and university culture by creating visibility and developing and testing new formats and forms of presentation.

Online talk follow here:

https://festival.hfd.digital/de/sessions-2025/?id=841859

more infos:https://festival.hfd.digital/de/

https://festival.hfd.digital/de/
 

Tuesday, April 29 | 4:30–8:00 p.m., FUNKEN Space, Technology Campus 6 II

The topic: Creative Methods of Project Work – Artistic Research for Organizations.

Organizations and projects are confronted with problems on a daily basis that require creative ideas and solutions. In this workshop, we will explore a catalog of artistic methods that help us understand and communicate complex processes.

In this 3.5-hour workshop, we will use practical exercises to develop the strategies of artistic research as a tool for shifting perspectives in organizational development and communication.

We will work in small teams and discuss concrete implementation ideas for your organization.

Come along and join Emanuel Mathias to learn about a catalog of artistic methods that will help you understand and communicate complex processes.

Tuesday, April 29, 4:30–8:00 p.m. Funken Space, Technologiecampus 6, 09126 Chemnitz

More information here: https://funken-akademie.de/2025/04/22/29-april/

In a collaborative process involving diverse actors and approaches, the project if, then, else explores the functions and interrelationships of architectural, social, and representative public space and designs forms between “being public” and engaging in dialogue with the public.

To begin: “Fieldwork Maximiliansstraße” – Emanuel Mathias begins on Saturday, April 12. A process-based research laboratory is being created underground in the 24h-Passage. Emanuel Mathias is developing an observation practice that inscribes itself into the space through ritualized actions and movements. Feature, review, record, script, assemble. Midnight – until Wednesday, April 16

A project and initiative by Anna Lena von Helldorff///**** together with Susanne Beck**, students from HGB Leipzig***, Anke Dyes with students from the AdBK Munich, Simone Egger with Max Zeidler****, Emanuel Mathias, Frauke Zabel*, and other protagonists who contribute perspectives on the place and its surroundings and bring them up for discussion. (tba)

10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day plus evening program Free admission

The international festival is taking place for the fourth time this year and is dedicated to the theme: “Intimate Frameworks / Intimate Structures”.

Management and artistic conception: Calin Kruse, dienacht e.V. Artistic co-conception: Jenny Starick, Head of Art Library & Visitor Service

Further information and the detailed festival program at dienacht.eu The Leipzig Photo Book Festival is a project by dienacht e.V. and will take place in 2025 in cooperation with HALLE 14.