KunstBewusst – Abstraktion als künstlerische Haltung: Boaz Kaizman. Anlässlich der Sammlungspräsentation „Über den Wert der Zeit“ mit Dr. Barbara Engelbach

In the organizer's words:

What is it all about?

In its current collection presentation, the Museum Ludwig is showing contemporary art under the thematic heading "On the value of time". Artists deal with temporality by drawing attention to the processes of production or reception. Or they question history and how it is remembered. They use different forms of abstraction.

They include Boaz Kaizman, who is represented with his video work "Hannah Arendt - the journey to Jerusalem" from 2018. Kaizman turns Jerusalem into the fictional location and 'stage set' of a historical dispute between the philosopher Hannah Arendt, the religious historian Gershom Scholem and the rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein about the relationship between coercion, morality and guilt in the Shoah. Kaizman works with found image and sound material, which he abstracts or alienates through digital processing. He uses image programs to emphasize the mediated nature of the images. He empties used motifs or deliberately confronts those from different contexts in order to stimulate reflection on history.

Based on this work, the lecture explores the question of how the artist transforms the traditional concept of media art in his work with the use of digital processes such as software and AI and what role abstraction plays as an artistic attitude.

Who is our guest?

Dr. Barbara Engelbach is a curator at the Museum Ludwig and is responsible for the contemporary art collection with photography and media art. In addition to group exhibitions on photography, video and film, she has also curated solo exhibitions on Rosemarie Trockel (2005), Harun Farocki (2009), Yvonne Rainer (2012) and Füsun Onur (2023, together with Emre Baykal), among others. Most recently, she was responsible for the exhibition "Pauline M'barek. Entropic Records" (2025).

Price information:

Free of charge for members of freunde, guests pay €4, students €2.