Virtual conference, June 17 and 18, 2020


Hosts: Ursula Ströbele (Study Center for Modern and Contemporary Art at Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich) / Susanne Witzgall (cx centre for interdisciplinary studies, Academy of Fine Arts Munich)

Excesses of the real? Christoph Büchel’s Barca Nostra and art criticism

Dominik Brabant (Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

2:00–4:00 pm

Out of Scale. Excessive Size in Contemporary Sculpture

Wouter Davidts (Gent)

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

2:00–4:00 pm

More than Extra – Drag and Queer Identities in Ryan Trecartin’s and Lizzy Fitch’s Video Works

Daniel Berndt (Berlin/Zürich)

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

4:30–6:30 pm

Interrogating Art History’s Excesses: Mickalene Thomas and Queer Black Decadence

Julia Skelly (Montreal)


Wednesday, June 17, 2020

4:30–6:30 pm

Another Vision of Excess: The Case of Cameron Rowland

André Rottmann (Berlin)


Thursday, June 18, 2020
10.30 am–12.30 pm


On Objects and their Excesses

Rahma Khazam (London/Paris)

Thursday, June 18, 2020
10.30 am–12.30 pm

Digital | Monumental. Excessive Data Processing in the Work of Ryoji Ikeda

Elisa Linseisen (Paderborn)

Thursday, June 18, 2020

1:30 pm–3:30 pm


Excess. Art Faced to the Productivist Economic Model

Serena De Dominicis (Rome)

Thursday, June 18, 2020

1:30 pm–3:30 pm