PROF. DR. BURCU DOGRAMACI LECTURE “ART (HISTORY) ON THE MOVE: DIS:CONNECTIVITY, ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXILE”
Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 11 am
LMTA Juozas Karosas Hall (Gedimino pr. 42, Vilnius)
ART HISTORIAN PROF. DR. BURCU DOGRAMACI (LUDWIG MÄXIMILIAN UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH) LECTURE “ART (HISTORY) ON THE MOVE: DIS:CONNECTIVITY, ENTANGLEMENTS AND EXILE”
The lecture is intended for researchers, doctoral students in art and art history, students, the LMTA community, and alumni.
Anyone interested in current artistic research is welcome to attend.
The lecture will be held in English.
Professor Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) is a leading researcher and head of the Käte Hamburger Research Center’s global Dis:connect Project. She researches modern and contemporary art, exploring the processes and phenomena of exile and migration in the fields of photography, architecture, fashion, and street art. Burcu Dogramaci was the principal investigator of the widely acclaimed project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD) (2017–2023, https://metromod.net), funded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Latest publications:
London Exile: Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic Migration (Leuven University Press, 2025, https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105084);
Grenze|Granica. Art on the German-Polish Border after 1990 (with Marta Smolińska, Böhlau 2024, https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/kunst-und-architektur/kunstgeschichte-kunstwissenschaft/58903/grenze/granica?c=1763);
Urban Exile. Theories, Methods, Research Practices (Intellect, 2023, ed. with Ekaterina Aygün et al., https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61621);
Handbook of Art and Global Migration Theories, Practices, and Challenges (ed. with Birgit Mersmann, De Gruyter, 2019).
Abstract
Exile and migration have shaped 20th-century art and contributed to new artistic concepts and forms of expression. My lecture will explore recent approaches which could help to explore art and art history as “on the move”. Based on case studies, passages, detours, absences, and interruptions will be analysed as indications of a dis:connective art history in a global perspective. In addition, practices of entanglement and kinship will be discussed, which can be a further effect of displacements – for example, when exiles come together and jointly present themselves in front of the camera and (in the sense of “doing exile”) form an exile community. My lecture understands entanglement and dis:connectivity not only as practices closely linked to phenomena of exile in art. Rather, the perspective of researchers should also be situated in this context: How, for example, can dis:connective phenomena be communicated in art-historical exile research, and how can digital methods mediate research findings on a topic marked by absences and losses?
Organizer: LMTA Research Center
Event is free, you are kindly invited!