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  • A Lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Stamm, Art Historian an Director of the Oldenburg State Museum of Art and cultural History
  • Lecture by Dr. Christina Leber, Artistic Director of the DZ Bank Art Foundation, Frankfurt, Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation, May 12, 2023.
  • Lecture by Dr. Vera Lüpkes, retired director of the Weser Renaissance Museum Schloss Brake, Lemgo, Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation, March 17, 2023
  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Hubertus Gaßner, Hamburg, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 25. November 2022
  • Lecture by Michael Siebenbrodt, Weimar, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 14. Oktober 2022
  • Lecture by Lisa Felicitas Mattheis Scientific Director of the Kunsthalle Emden, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 13. Mai 2022
  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Volker Mosbrugger, Retired Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt a. Main, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 1. April 2022
  • Lecture by Wolfgang Ullrich, freelance author and cluturist, Leipzig, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 26. November 2021
  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken, Ph.D., Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 22. October 2021
  • Reading by Raphael Dwinger, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 6. December 2019
  • Lecture by Joachim Sartorius, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 15. November 2019
  • Lecture by Zita Hartel, Research Associate at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 17. May 2019
  • Lecture by Prof. Dr. Renate Berger, Berlin, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 7. December 2018
  • Lecture by Dr. Anna Heinze, Curator for visual arts and applied arts at the State Museum for Art an Cultural History Oldenburg, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 19. October 2018
  • Lecture and reading by Professor Rainer Stamm, Director of the Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 9. June 2018
  • Reading by actors Verena Güntner and Robert Levin, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 27. April 2018
  • Lecture by Verena Borgmann, Curator for modern and contemporary Art at Kunsthalle Bremen, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 30. November 2017
  • Lecture by David Riedel, Artistic Director of the Peter August Böckstiegel Haus in Werther, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 25. October 2017
  • Lecture by Dr. Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Director of the Franz Marc Museum, Kochel a. See, Stiftung Ahlers Pro Arte, 8. December 2016
  • Lecture by Dr. Reinhard Spieler, Director of the Sprengel Museum Hanover, Ahlers Pro Arte, 7. December 2016

Review

The Ahlers Pro Arte Foundation began hosting events as soon as it had opened its first exhibition in Hanover. On 11 May 2005, the author, artist and musician Thomas Kapielski gave a public reading from Dieter Roth’s Da drinnen vor dem Auge against the background of the exhibition Dieter Roth: Books. Since then the foundation stage a large number of evening events. Following the foundation’s move to Herford, two lectures in December 2016 marked the beginning of our event programme in the new location.

Just as with exhibitions, from the very beginning the foundation has sought to offer as diverse a programme as possible with regards to the themes and formats it features. Readings are complemented by lectures and panel discussions, as well as song and piano evenings. The topics covered have been highly varied; the foundation has hosted events including a lecture by Henryk M. Broders on the socio-political situation in Germany (2007), Fritz J. Raddatz’s readings from his journals (2011) and his biography of Heinrich Heine (2012), lectures about the art historian Erwin Panofsky (2011) and about Gabriele Münter’s path to using colour (2015), as well as musical performances like Franz Schubert’s Winterreise (2012). The importance and tradition of the location were particularly foregrounded in talks by Werner Schmalenbach (2007) and Wieland Schmied (2008) about their time as directors of the Kestnergesellschaft.

Since 2017 we deepen, within the scope of six-monthly thematic focuses, the issues that are addressed also in the exhibitions. For example, in autumn 2017 the scope was on the portrait in 20th century, one year later on images of women in art, and in autumn 2019 on reading in art.

08. September 2023
The Way to Modernity. Women Artists in Paris around 1900
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Rainer Stamm
Art historian and director of the Oldenburg State Museum of Art and Cultural History

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12. May 2023
Change of scenery or "Is it beautiful elsewhere?"
A lecture by Dr. Christina Leber, Artistic Director of the DZ Bank Art Foundation, Frankfurt


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17. March 2023
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI. Antiquity in Baroque Rome
A lecture by Dr. phil. Vera Lüpkes,
former director of the Weser Renaissance Museum Schloss Brake, Lemgo

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25. November 2022
About rhythm in small and large worlds
A lecture by Prof. Dr Hubertus Gaßner, Hamburg

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14. October 2022
Between Abstraction and Figuration.
Artistic Positions at the Bauhaus from Itten to Moholy-Nahy
A lecture by Michael Siebenbrodt, Weimar


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13. May 2022
Animal Fates
On Human and Non-Human Animals in Art
A lecture by Lisa Felicitas Mattheis
Scientific Director of the Kunsthalle Emden



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01. April 2022
The "Tragedy of the Commons"
How important is nature for us humans?
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Volker Mosbrugger
Retired Director General of the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung,
Frankfurt am Main

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26. November 2021
From adversaries to cooperation partners
The changing relationship between art and fashion
A lecture by Wolfgang Ullrich, freelance author and cultural scientist, Leipzig

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22. October 2021
Fashion and fetishism
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Barbara Vinken, Ph.D.

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06. December 2019
"Reading is guided creation"
Texts about reading
Reading: Raphael Dwinger
Music: Elisabeth Kufferath

15. November 2019
He who does not read,
loses the world
A lecture by Joachim Sartorius

16. June 2019
A Life "Pro Arte"
In Memory of Ruth Ahlers
Chamber music matinee in honour of Ruth Ahlers, co-founder and 'Grande Dame' of the Herforder Kunstverein
17. May 2019
A Selfie with Mona Lisa
About the legacy of the Old Masters in Popular Culture
A lecture by Zita Hartel
Research associate at the Kunsthalle Tübingen


29. March 2019
Shared Values
Art and Cultural Memory
A lecture by Dr. Nicole Fritz
Director of the Kunsthalle Tübingen



07. December 2018
In cooperation with Stiftung Kestner Pro Arte
Adaptation, rebellion or action?
What women's representations trigger
A lecture by Prof. Dr. Renate Berger, Berlin

19. October 2018
In cooperation with Stiftung Diana Pro Arte
FROM GODDESS TO PIN-UP
FEMALE NUDITY IN ART
A lecture by Dr. Anna Heinze
Curator for Visual Arts and Applied Arts at the State Museum of Art and Cultural History Oldenburg
09. June 2018
Reading
Paula Modersohn-Becker and Rainer Maria Rilke.
An Artistic Friendship
Introduced and read by Professor Rainer Stamm, director of the Oldenburg State Museum for Art and Cultural History and editor of their correspondonce

27. April 2018
Reading
Paula Modersohn-Becker and Otto Modersohn.
Correspondence
Actors Verena Güntner and Robert Levin read from the artists' letters
Introduced by Antje Modersohn, Otto-Modersohn-Museum, Fischerhude

30. November 2017
In cooperation with STIFTUNG KESTNER PRO ARTE
‘dot, dot, comma, line – and the face is done? ON VISIBILITY AND INVISIBILITY IN PORTRAITURE’
A lecture by VERENA BORGMANN 
curator for modern and contemporary art at KUNSTHALLE BREMEN

25. October 2017
in cooperation with STIFTUNG DIANA PRO ARTE
‘every artist is a human being – on the self-portrait in the twentieth century’
a lecture by DAVID RIEDEL
artistic director of the PETER AUGUST BÖCKSTIEGEL HAUS IN WERTHER
08. December 2016
In cooperation with STIFTUNG DIANA PRO ARTE
‘the ahlers collection at the franz marc museum – franz marc between expressionism and the present’
A lecture by DR. CATHRIN KLINGSÖHR-LEROY
Director of the Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See
07. December 2016
In cooperation with Stiftung Kestner Pro Arte
‘the ahlers collection at the Sprengel Museum Hannover"
A lecture by DR. REINHARD SPIELER
Director of the Sprengel Museum Hannover
12. November 2015
‘learning to paint – gabriele mÜNTER’S path to using colour’
a lecture by DR. CATHRIN KLINGSÖHR-LEROY
Director of the Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See
11. October 2013
‘implicit moments – on art, artists, creativity, the kestnergesellschaft and its custodians’
a lecture by PROF. KARSTEN K. KREBS
01. March 2013
„William N. Copley – Ballad of a Womanizer”
a lecture by DR. CARL HAENLEIN
11. May 2012
„Taubenherz und Geierschnabel“
FRITZ J. RADDATZ reads from his biography of heinrich heine
23. March 2012
„Winterreise“
an evening of songs with CORNELIA HELLBRÜGGE aND CHRISTIAN SCHULTE for voice and piano by FRANZ SCHUBERT
06. May 2011
‘my friends, the artists’
FRITZ J. RADDATZ reads from his journals 1982–2001
11. February 2011
banished into paradise: the art historian erwin panofsky’
a lecture by DR. PETER STRUCK
15. October 2010
musical evening with the cologne quartet
30. October 2009
piano evening with RAGNA SCHIRMER
21. November 2008
piano evening with RAGNA SCHIRMER
13. June 2008
‘GABRIELE MÜNTER – her time with WASSILY KANDINSKY’
lecture BY DR. ANNEGRET HOBERG
30. May 2008
PIANO EVENING WITH ELENA MELNIKOVA
11. April 2008
‘in the wake of history: my years at the kestnergesellschaft’
a lecture by PROF. WIELAND SCHMIED
07. March 2008
evening of songs with JULIA BORCHERT
30. November 2007
evening of songs with CORNELIA HELLBRÜGGE
02. November 2007
‘there are no germans, jews or arabs there: a pleasant country’
a lecture on iceland by HENRYK BRODER
12. October 2007
piano evening with RAGNA SCHIRMER
21. September 2007
my time as director of the KESTNERGESELLSCHAFT’
a lecture by PROF. WERNER SCHMALENBACH
20. July 2007
PIANO EVENING WITH ELENA MELNIKOVA
star pupil of RAGNA SCHIRMER
15. June 2007
„Kestner & Co“
a lecture by DR. PETER STRUCK
01. December 2006
"Emil Nolde"
a lecture by DR. ULRICH LUCKHARDT
18. November 2006
piano evening with RAGNA SCHIRMER
14. October 2006
evening of songs with JULIA BORCHERT
18. March 2006
WERNER RUHNAU in conversation with MICHAEL STOEBER
panel discussion
11. June 2005
Dieter Roth: „Da drinnen vor dem Auge“
a reading by THOMAS KAPIELSKI
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