INFINITY
A walk (EN/DE) through Aby Warburg's Image Collection of the History of Astrology and Astronomy at the Planetarium with Warburgian art historian Karen Michels, to explore humanity's quest to read the stars in order to find our place on Earth. The City Curator Hamburg presents the only exhibition ever personally made by Aby Warburg for the Planetarium Hamburg, highlighting its connections to Infinity. Its contents were long considered lost and were rediscovered only in the late 1980s. Set out as an elliptical journey, the exhibition inquires into how the spiritual and the rational – both essential to human wellbeing – can be brought together and how humans have always looked into the stars to understand our life on Earth.
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City Curator responds to the topics of the 9th Triennial of Photography Infinity, Alliance and Love in three chapters.
INFINITY: Two visits to Aby Warburg's Image Collection of the History of Astrology and Astronomy at the Planetarium explore humanity's quest to read the stars to find our place on Earth.
ALLIANCE: An artist talk with Luchezar Boyadjiev about his worldly photo collection of equestrian statues from which he 'removes' male rulers from their horses.
LOVE: A visit to the planetary mural of Cecilia Vicuña as part of the exhibition FIRE. From the Cosmos to the Commons at St. Nikolai Memorial, addressing current apocalypses and the visions of common futures.
Karen Michel wrote her dissertation on Le Corbusier in 1987; from 1993 to 1997 she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg, where she was involved in the renovation and management of the Warburg-House. She completed her habilitation in 1997 and taught at the universities of Jena, Halle, and the Humboldt University of Berlin in the years that followed until 2000. Her research focuses on, among other things, the history of science, Aby Warburg’s emigration, and Erwin Panofsky.
