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Im Zweifel für den Zweifel: Die große Weltverschwörung

21/9.-18/11/2018

Conspiracy theories, fake news and alternative facts are in great supply in times of upheaval, because times of crisis are times of conspiracy. From September 21 to November 18, 2018, the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf presents “Im Zweifel für den Zweifel: Die große Weltverschwörung”, an international group exhibition that reveals the power of conspiratorial narratives and encourages critical doubt. 

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Made in Düsseldorf #1: Ruff/Jansen

21/9.-18/11/2018

The new exhibition series "Made in Düsseldorf", a cooperation with the Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf, is dedicated to contemporary artists who live and work in the city. The first edition contrasts the series "Portraits from the Düsseldorf Art Scene" by Bernd Jansen with a series of portraits by Thomas Ruff.

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Bauhaus and Photography—On New Visions in Contemporary Art 

7/12/2018-10/3/2019 

The Staatliche Bauhaus not only played a key role in the history of twentieth-century design and art, but also in photography. From December 7, 2018 through March 10, 2019, the exhibition “Bauhaus and Photography—On New Visions in Contemporary Art” at the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf brings together photographs by proponents of this “new vision” with works by contemporary artists.

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#ADA-Festival: Rolling Eyes. Feminist voices, lyrics and sound.

9/11/2018, 3 pm

Many ideas are dismissed as feminist moaning because they sound different. They are decried as ideology or conspiracy against the dominant, Western, masculine, white, heterosexual. During the festival we will discuss feminism in a digital, poetic, sonic context.

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Theater und Technik

Congress of the Society for Theatre Studies

10/11/2018, 9 am-3 am

On November 10, 2018 the international congress of the Society for Theatre Studies will take place in Düsseldorf! The day at the NRW-Forum will focus on sound: With a keynote lecture by Diedrich Diederichsen, listening session by Heike Sperling and Swantje Lichtenstein with Brigitta Muntendorf, a concert installation by N + [ B O L T  and a live and DJ set by Sue Lèwig and Sarah Santos. 

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Art & Algorithms #2

16/11/2018, 6 pm

The series of lectures called Art & Algorithms, conceived in cooperation with the University of Cologne and the Grimme Institute, will present a selected artistic work on the subject of Big Data, which will subsequently be flanked by impulses and discussed with the public. The series is sponsored by the Grimme Research College at the University of Cologne.

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