In what ways can art be employed as an economic practice to emphasize alternative, solidarity-based economic models that transcend capitalist ones?

In this talk, Kathrin Böhm explores art as an economic practice and the economy as a cultural field. She discusses alternative economic forms using projects such as Lumbung, a model of sharing, collective resource use, and solidarity, and Company Drinks, a project exploring informal economies and social relationships. In doing so, she introduces new ideas of value, work, and exchange.

This event is being held in collaboration with the ZKM as part of a seminar led by Céline Condorelli and is part of the lecture series “Spatial Dramaturgies” (Exhibition Design and Scenography)

Thursday, July 9, 2026, 6:00 p.m.

Location: ZKM Media Lounge

Admission: Free admission

Language: English

Spatial Dramaturgies – Lecture Series on Exhibition Design and Scenography

„All this could be put much more simply: Time exists in order so that everything doesn't happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn't all happen to you.“ (Susan Sontag)

The lecture series “Spatial Dramaturgies” investigates the defining cornerstones of the ADSZ study program: of scenography, of exhibitions and their designs, of dramaturgy and curatorial practice. Of the relation of time and space – how they play with us and how we can play with them.