Program

• • Work presentation in the foyer
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  • The sculpture »Peter Weibel« (2023) by Olaf Metzel in the foyer commemorates the artist and visionary.

• • 6 pm, Foyer: Book presentation
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  • The evening will focus on the presentation of two publications conceived by Peter Weibel but now published posthumously, which provide an insight into his multifaceted theoretical and artistic work. 

    The sixth volume of the »Encyclopaedia of Media« (original: »Enzyklopädie der Medien«) - a series of essays by Peter Weibel - will be presented. The collection of texts is dedicated to the topic of »Theory and Media« (original: Theorie und Medien). This final volume in the series explores the question of how the media(-arts) constitute, simulate and change the world and our perception of it. The texts collected here emphasize the social relevance of media art and its potential to enable an emancipated approach to digitalization in the 21st century.

    The second publication offers the first comprehensive overview of Peter Weibel's diverse artistic practice over the past sixty years in English. »Peter Weibel: Art as an Act of Cognition« was conceived on the occasion of the exhibition »respektive. Peter Weibel«, which was shown at the ZKM in 2019 and at the MMCA in Seoul, Korea, in 2023. 

    The publications can be purchased on this evening - together with a small surprise. The ZKM store will be open until 10 pm.

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• • 7:45 pm, Media Theater: Movie night
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  • The film evening shows a selection of Weibel's works since the 1960s. Video artworks, documentations of performances, appearances with his band Hotel Morphila Orchester and television debates create a portrait of an imaginative artist and intellectual.