With "Weltkunstzimmer - Labor für Kritik und Weitsicht" (World Art Room - Laboratory for Criticism and Foresight), a new series of events is starting that focuses on the foreground and background of artistic projects. In recent years, artists, critics and curators have developed a wide variety of artistic strategies that unfold beyond the art market, media and institutions and demand new forms of reception.

Moreover, artists are increasingly reacting to the strong social changes that have been negotiated for years under the catchwords "capitalism, crisis, consumption and control".

What positions do artists take? And how can these be communicated?

In addition to a focus on media issues, the exhibition will present works and projects that are based on longer-term research and dare to experiment and take risks.

22 April, 7 p.m., Kick-off event
Expanded Journalism - Art in Television and Online Journalism Alain Bieber in conversation with Sabine Maria Schmidt

Alain Bieber (born 1978) is a German-French journalist, author, curator of contemporary art and editor-in-chief of ARTE Creative. As of 1 April 2015, he is the artistic director of the NRW-Forum Düsseldorf.

Sabine Maria Schmidt is an art historian, lecturer and art critic and has worked at various museums (including Kunsthalle Bremen, Lehmbruck Museum, Museum Folkwang) and as a freelance curator since 1997. Since 1 February, she has been providing conceptual support to the Weltkunstzimmer team.

13 May 2015, 7 pm
War and migration: "You & Me", a project between Bosnia, Germany and the USA
Katja Stuke and Oliver Sieber in conversation with Sabine Maria Schmidt

24 June 2015, 7 pm
Darknets and a package to Mr. Assange
The Bitnik Media Group in conversation with Sabine Maria Schmidt

26 August 2015, 7 pm
Silence and Voices
Juergen Staack and Thomas Rieger in conversation with Janine Blöss and Sabine Maria Schmidt

Sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf.