Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom

SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM

9 November 2021

The 32nd Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

11:00 – 13:30 & 18:30 – 23:00

At Zionskirche, Zionskirchplatz, Berlin Mitte

Morning Program – 3G rules apply: proof of vaccination, recovery, or negative test required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

11:00 – 11:30

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

11:30 – 12:00

Film Screening – Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English subtitles]

12:00 – 13:00
Panel Discussion – Birds & Bicycles: Paradoxes of Freedom [in English]

Moderated by David Elliott
Curator, Writer, Art Historian, Museum Director (Oxford, UK / Berlin)

Tatiana Arzamasova
Artist from AES+F (Moscow, Russia / Berlin)

Thomas Eller
Artist and Curator, Artistic Director at Taoxichuan China Arts & Sciences, President of Randian Magazine, Director of THEgallery (Mürsbach, Germany / Berlin)

Dominik Lejman
Artist and Professor at the University of the Arts Poznan (Poznan, Poland / Berlin)

Zsuzsanna Petró
Curator at the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, formerly at the Ludwig Museum Budapest (Budapest, Hungary / Berlin)

Rachel Rits-Volloch
Curator and Founding Director of MOMENTUM

13:00 – 13:40
Film Screening – Allegoria Sacra by AES+F

Evening Program – 2G rules apply: proof of vaccination, or recovery required.

Places are limited. Please Register by email HERE >>

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18:30 – 19:00

Unveiling of the new monumental sculpture Why I Bear by Stefan Rinck
[in English and German]

19:00 – 19:30

Film Screening Heart of Stone, by Sonja Baeger on the work of Stefan Rinck
[in German with English Subtitles]

19:30 – 20:30
Lecture – The Church, the Resistance and the Bear – Philosopher, historian, and publisher

Christian Posthofen addresses the Zionskirche as a heterotopia.
[in German]

21:00 – 22:00
Concert – TRES MOMENTOS by Sven Helbig, conducted by Wilhelm Keitel

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