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Christopher Weickenmeier

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21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C5.014
Fon +49.4131.677-1224, christopher.weickenmeier@leuphana.de
Research associate, Kunstraum of Leuphana University

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Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Texte zur Kunst #134: Sculpture
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Editor) , Mirjam Thomann (Editor) , Christian Liclair (Editor) , 2024 , 264 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Special Journal issue › Research

  2. Klosterruinenzines
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Editor) , Maxi Wallenhorst (Editor) , Anna M. Szaflarski (Author) , Simone Fattal (Illustrator) , Josè Montealegre (Illustrator) , Yoshie Sugito (Illustrator) , Bassem Saad (Author) , 2022 , 76 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. BEWEGTE KUNST. Christopher Weickenmeier über David Medalla im Bonner Kunstverein
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Author) , 26.01.2022 , in: Texte zur Kunst

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Research

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. Sunny Side Down
    Christopher Weickenmeier (Author) , David Reiber Otálora (Author) , 01.01.2021 , p. 30-34 , 5 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions in collection of commentaries › Research

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Activities

Courses

Anti-Archives. Critical Publishing and Counter-Publics. A Cooperation with Basel Academy of Art and Design
Christopher Weickenmeier
The seminar explores counter-hegemonic archival practices in the field of art. The so-called "archival turn" elevated the archive – "simultaneously a repository and generator of historical knowledge" (Messner) – to a central subject of various artistic and curatorial practices. Central to this was the focus on the democratizing and emancipatory effects of engaging with the archive as "the law of what can be said" (Foucault). Many archives serve to consolidate institutional power, while others resist and subvert institutional logics of organizing and mediating knowledge. It is these archives that we will focus on through a selection of examples. The seminar is a collaboration with the M.A. Critical Publishing program at the Academy of Art and Design Basel. Together with students from Basel, seminar participants will organize an international public workshop.
Next appointment:
Friday, 2026-10-30 at 14:15
Room: C 5.109 Seminarraum
Ruins of Contemporary Art
Nooshin Askari, Christopher Weickenmeier
This class will explore aesthetics related to the concept of ruins. We will look at the late 18th to the mid-19th century European Romantics’ fascination with ruins as a site (in various projections of it). Influenced by the cultural production of the French revolution, colonial orientalist endeavours and criticism of the European enlightenment, Romanticism has left a persisting mark on politics and poetics of contemporary Europe and by proxy of colonialism, in colonised geographies. In a parallel comparative literature study we will look at the concept of ruins and sight in Arabic and Persian literature, psychoanalysis, Queer Punk music and film and further European scholarly criticism of the enlightenment in the early 20th century. Using the frame of a glossary as a departure point, we will collectively gather and construct our own glossary entries to engage with each participant’s approach to the course.

Nooshin Askari (b.1989, Tehran, Iran) lives and works in Berlin. Askari graduated from Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste Städelschule, Judith Hopf Class in 2022, and took part in the 2024-2025 Independent Study Program Of The Whitney Museum of American Art.

Askari’s work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including REAL LIFE... and how to live it at Kunstforum Baloise Park, Basel, Switzerland; Aashra, Ashkal Alwan online film program, Beirut, Lebanon; Half Life at Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada; Die Wiessen at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin, Germany and TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria; Les Urbaines, Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland; and Lash/Outs at O Gallery, Tehran, Iran, among others.
Next appointment:
Lectures for this semester ended.