25.10.2024 Research presentation by Anna Zett
27.10.2024 Performances by the Class for Performative Arts (HGB Leipzig)
27.10.2024 Talk with Isabel Lewis and Yon Natalie Mik
01.12.2024 Walk with Rainer Görß
08.02.2025 Talk with Clare Molloy and Susanne Sachsse

Collecting & Un/Learning is a thematic sequence within the DIFFRACTIONS program that explores various research processes. It examines historical traces, relationships, and materials collected by galerie weisser elefant, as well as the research methods used in this context. The program questions what constitutes an institutional archive and how it can be developed. It focuses on artistic and curatorial research methods that address the less-documented or ephemeral aspects of these materials. DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning thus outlines the contours of a possible institutional archive that is in a state of continuous change.

DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning is a collaboration with the Class for Performative Arts of Isabel Lewis and Lissy Willberg at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, which began in April 2024. The resulting performance exhibition will be presented in October, followed by a discussion round.

Anna Zett’s research residency in September and October 2024 is also part of DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning. During her residency, Zett will open her studio at Kunst Raum Mitte to the public from September 12 to 15 and on October 25 to present her research.  

Additionally, a walk with Rainer Görß and talks with Clare Molloy and Susanne Sachsse are included in DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning.

DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning describes the artistic directors’ curatorial and art-historical engagement with different actors, archives, and histories related to the gallery’s history. This includes network meetings with other archives and museums in Berlin, such as Schwules Museum, Mitte Museum, Untergrundmuseum, Archiv der DDR-Opposition, and others.

25.10.2024 Research presentation by Anna Zett
27.10.2024 Performances by the Class for Performative Arts (HGB Leipzig)
27.10.2024 Talk with Isabel Lewis and Yon Natalie Mik
01.12.2024 Walk with Rainer Görß
08.02.2025 Talk with Clare Molloy and Susanne Sachsse

Collecting & Un/Learning is a thematic sequence within the DIFFRACTIONS program that explores various research processes. It examines historical traces, relationships, and materials collected by galerie weisser elefant, as well as the research methods used in this context. The program questions what constitutes an institutional archive and how it can be developed. It focuses on artistic and curatorial research methods that address the less-documented or ephemeral aspects of these materials. DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning thus outlines the contours of a possible institutional archive that is in a state of continuous change.

DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning is a collaboration with the Class for Performative Arts of Isabel Lewis and Lissy Willberg at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, which began in April 2024. The resulting performance exhibition will be presented in October, followed by a discussion round.

Anna Zett’s research residency in September and October 2024 is also part of DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning. During her residency, Zett will open her studio at Kunst Raum Mitte to the public from September 12 to 15 and on October 25 to present her research.  

Additionally, a walk with Rainer Görß and talks with Clare Molloy and Susanne Sachsse are included in DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning.

DIFFRACTIONS—Collecting & Un/Learning describes the artistic directors’ curatorial and art-historical engagement with different actors, archives, and histories related to the gallery’s history. This includes network meetings with other archives and museums in Berlin, such as Schwules Museum, Mitte Museum, Untergrundmuseum, Archiv der DDR-Opposition, and others.