Opening Ceremony of the Centre for Advanced Study
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

On 1 April 2023, the Centre for Advanced Study “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change”  commenced its work. We would like to cordially invite you to the festive kick-off on 25 April 2023 at 6 pm c.t.. At the event in the Botanicum, Leibniz Prize winner Johannes Grave will give the keynote lecture on the topic "Changing states of matter. How the way we access art can change works". Afterwards, there will be a reception in Münster Castle.

Programme

6 pm Music: rytm
KySe DrüB feat. Anna Lytton
  Welcome 
Prof. Dr. Reinold Schmücker
(Speaker of the Centre for Advanced Study)
  Greetings 
Prof. Dr. Johannes Wessels 
(Rector of the University of Münster)
Dr. Niklas Hebing 
(German Research Foundation, Bonn)
  “Access to cultural goods in the digital change” 
Presentation of the research programme of the Centre for Advanced Study
Prof. Dr. Ursula Frohne 
(Co-Speaker of the Centre for Advanced Study)
  Music: octa
KySe DrüB feat. Anna Lytton
7 pm “Changing States of Matter. How the Way We Access Art can Change Works”
Keynote lecture 
Prof. Dr. Johannes Grave 
(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
  Music: drylybü
KySe DrüB feat. Anna Lytton
8 pm Reception 
in the foyer of the castle
  • Johannes Grave

    Johannes Grave is one of the most renowned German art historians. His major monographs on Caspar David Friedrich (2012) and Giovanni Bellini (2018) have also been translated into English; under the title Bild und Zeit (Image and Time), he published Eine Theorie des Bildbetrachtens (A Theory of Looking at Pictures) in 2022 at C. H. Beck. Awarded the Hans Janssen Prize for European Art History by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 2012, Johannes Grave received a Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation in 2020 and was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar in 2021.