WATZMANN / VOR EINEM BILD

In the organizer's words:

Lecture performance by Falk Haberkorn (artist, Leipzig)

When the daguerreotype was the first technical image to see the light of day in August 1839, Paul Delaroche, a respected history painter in his profession, is said to have remarked "From today on, painting is dead." - As it soon turned out, it was not, on the contrary. Today it seems more vital than ever, not despite but because of photography, which is as ubiquitous as it is redundant in the digital age. Since then, however, painting has repeatedly had to relate to photography, directly or indirectly, because even if it remains the supreme discipline in art, it has irrevocably lost its traditional prerogative as the leading visual medium to the technical image, behind whose standard there is no going back.

This lecture performance by Falk Haberkorn begins with the coincidental historical simultaneity of the public announcement of photography and the death of the Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich in 1840. It blends past and present, vision and revision, in a fictional journey between worlds.

Price information:

6 € regular / 3 € reduced