This three-day workshop gathers international scholars and artists to reflect upon photographic practices that focus on the representations of natural and built environments in contemporary Europe. From different disciplinary perspectives that include art history, architecture, geography and archaeology, speakers address the many pressing issues that representations of natural and man-made landscapes bring into focus: national identity of the territory, political and historical context of urban expansion and the effect of human activity on land. The workshop furthermore gives an opportunity to identify elements of change and continuity in contemporary development of landscape as a genre, and how photography and lens-based media affect its visual models of representation.

The workshop features artist talks: with Thomas Struth and Beate Gütschow.

The workshop is organized by Olga Smith and Stefanie Gerke.

It is presented with the support of KOSMOS Programme at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Verein zur Förderung des Instituts für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte.

Attendance is free, no registration required. Language of the workshop is English.

Speakers:

Malcolm Andrews (University of Kent)
Jordi Ballesta (Université de Saint-Étienne)
Raphaële Bertho (Université François-Rabelais)
Laura Breede (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig)
Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
Marta Dahó (Universitat de Barcelona)
Michael Diers (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Antonello Frongia (Università RomaTre)
Bettina Gockel (Universität Zürich)
Sonia Keravel (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Paysage Versailles)
Danièle Méaux (Université de Saint-Étienne)
Frédéric Pousin (CNRS Paris)
Olga Smith (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Liz Wells (Plymouth University)

Workshop: June 16 – 18, 2017

Senatssaal, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
[Mitte | Mitte]

Attendance is free