Anselm Franke
Anselm Franke has been Head of Visual Arts and Film at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) since 2013. There, he initiated and curated the exhibitions Love and Ethnology: The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) (2019/20, with Diedrich Diederichsen), Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930 (2018, with Tom Holert), Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War (2017/18, with Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara, Antonia Majaca), 2 or 3 Tigers (2017, with Hyunjin Kim), Nervous Systems (2016, Tactical Technology Collective, Stephanie Hankey, Marek Tuszynski), Ape Culture (2015, with Hila Peleg), Forensis (2014, with Forensic Architecture), The Whole Earth (with Diedrich Diederichsen) and After Year Zero (both 2013). He previously worked as a curator at KW Berlin and as director of the Extra City Kunsthal in Antwerp. In 2005 he and Stefanie Schulte Strathaus founded the Forum Expanded for the Berlin International Film Festival of which he has been co-curator since. He was the chief curator of the Taipei Biennial in 2012 and of the Shanghai Biennale in 2014. His exhibition project Animism was shown from 2009 until 2014 in collaboration with various partners in Antwerp, Berne, Vienna, Berlin, New York, Shenzhen, Seoul and Beirut. Franke received his doctorate from Goldsmiths College, London. He was appointed Professor of Curatorial Studies at the Zurich University of the Arts, effective August 1, 2022.
As of April 2022
Events
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This Is Not a Burial, It's a Resurrection
Book launch, lectures, conversations, performances
Dec 17, 2022
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Storia notturna and the End of the World
Lectures, conversations, performances
Dec 10, 2022
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Calling (on) Wynter: A Few Responses
Lectures, conversations
Dec 1, 2022
Alle Veranstaltungen
Alle Veranstaltungen
Curator-led tour
Oct 23, 2022
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Conference: Whose Universal?
Presentations, discussion
Jul 02–03, 2022
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Beneath Image and Script
Presentations, discussions
Jun 24, 2022
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Curator-led tour
Nov 21, 2021
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Curator-led tour in German
Nov 20, 2021
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Incessantly Primitive Accumulation. Discussing Capitalization
Online-Workshop
Oct 28, 2021
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Subjected Materialisms. Approximations of Undialectical Lifes
Online-Workshop
Oct 22, 2021
Premiere: Berlin [Underground]
Film
Oct 17, 2021
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German premiere: The Lobby
Film
Oct 16, 2021
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Streetscapes [Dialogue] | The Last City
Film
Oct 16, 2021
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The Airstrip
Film
Oct 16, 2021
Premiere: Zwei Häuser von Arno Brandlhuber | WEISS hoch ZWEI
Film | #1 Film and architecture
Oct 15, 2021
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Parabeton | Goff in der Wüste
Film | #1 Film and architecture
Oct 15, 2021
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Schindlers Häuser | Bickels [Socialism]
Film | #1 Film and architecture
Oct 15, 2021
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Counter Gravity – Opening
Oct 14, 2021
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Socializing Evidence
Conference
Oct 9, 2021
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Property Offenses. A Workshop seeking out Art’s Illiberalities
Online-workshop
Sep 23, 2021
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Conference: The White West IV: Whose Universal?
Presentations, discussion
Jul 10, 2021
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Digital Violence
Public Launch: talks and screenings
Jul 3, 2021
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Die Verqueerung der Welt
Long film night, screenings and talks
Dec 6, 2019
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De-Centering Narratives
Conference
Nov 2, 2019
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Afro-Sonic Mapping: Opening Talks
Nov 1, 2019
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Opening: Afro-Sonic Mapping
Installations, Concerts, Talks
Oct 31, 2019
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Conference: Love and Ethnology
Oct 18, 2019
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Art After Culture: Navigation Beyond Vision
Lectures, films, and discussions
Apr 05–06, 2019
Introduction
May 26, 2018
Discussion
Lecture
May 26, 2018
Anselm Franke: Notes on the Legacy of the CCF
Short Talk
Dec 15, 2017
Berlin, arena of the Cold War
Talk
Dec 3, 2017
Cosmism, Universalism, Contemporary Art
Conference
Sep 2, 2017
Anselm Franke: Frontiers and Media
Survey Talk
Jun 17, 2017
The Apparatus of Racism: Day 1
Discourse program
Mar 8, 2017
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Finissage Lectures
Lectures
May 8, 2016
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Global Modernisms
Conference
Nov 6, 2015
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Guided tour with the curator
Jul 5, 2015
Opening
Apr 29, 2015
Thinking with Farocki 2
Presentations
Feb 27, 2015
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Anthropocene Observatory – Can We Control the Earth?
Artist Talk
Nov 16, 2014
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The Otolith Group: Medium Earth
Exhibition
Oct 17–Dec 8, 2014
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#4 The Dark Abyss of Time
Exhibition
Oct 17–Dec 8, 2014
Forensics and Human Rights Abuse
Conversation
Mar 16, 2014
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#3 Down to Earth
Exhibition
Mar 15–May 5, 2014
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# 2 Empire of Calculus
Documentation, Films, Exhibition
Jan 24–Feb 24, 2014
World Order & Horizons after 1945
HKW Wissensclub #4
Nov 1, 2013
The Blue Planet – The History of an Image
HKW Wissensclub #3
May 31, 2013
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Van Dyke Parks in conversation with Anselm Franke and Detlef Diederichsen
May 10, 2013
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Guided tour with curator Anselm Franke
Mar 18, 2012
Animism
Conference
Mar 17, 2012
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Animism
Exhibition
Mar 16–May 6, 2012
Animism
Conference
Mar 16, 2012