Opening: Johan Grimonprez. All Memory Is Theft

With »All Memory Is Theft«, the ZKM presents its extensive retrospective on Belgian film and media artist Johan Grimonprez (*1962), whose work explores the boundaries between theory and practice, art and cinema, documentary and fiction.

“Who owns our imagination in a world of existential vertigo where truth has become a shipwrecked refugee? Is it the storyteller who can contain contradictions, who can slip between the languages we have been given to become a time-traveler of the imagination?” (Johan Grimonprez)

We cordially invite you to the opening of the exhibition!

Program

7 pm Welcome and opening remarks

• Alistair Hudson, Scientific-Artistic Chairman, ZKM I Karlsruhe
• Arne Braun, State Secretary, Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg
• Dr. Dominika Szope, Head of Cultural Office, City of Karlsruhe 

7:15 pm Introduction

• Daniel Pies, Curator, ZKM I Karlsruhe
• Philipp Ziegler, Curator, ZKM | Karlsruhe 

7:45 pm Opening of the exhibition