We warmly invite you to join us for an artist talk with Anna Witt, featuring Luise Willer and Jonathan Roessler, on January 16 at 7 pm.

The artist talk marks the closing of Witt’s solo exhibition Radical Optimism, on view until the following day, January 17.

The conversation will engage with the exhibition’s central themes, focusing on the concept of radical hope as both an emancipatory force and a strategy for navigating crisis and social change.

Luise Willer is a curator and researcher based in Berlin. She is a member of the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts and is pursuing a PhD in art history at Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on the theme of assembly in contemporary art. She is interested in socially oriented artistic practices, particularly their performative moments and organizational forms. She examines these practices to better understand their visions of the future, collaborative processes, and critiques of institutions.

Jonathan Roessler is a research associate at the Junior Research Group Democratic Hope at FU Berlin. He is working in the field of social philosophy, political theory, and modern intellectual history with a focus on Critical Theory. He is particularly interested in theories of authoritarianism and (anti-)fascism, social-natural relations, environmental justice, and the philosophy of hope and utopianism. His PhD project re-examines the concept of the ‘domination of nature’ in the early Frankfurt School and adjacent thinkers like Ernst Bloch. Before coming to Berlin, Jonathan has studied philosophy and political science in Tübingen and Intellectual History at Cambridge. He is the translator of Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism.

*The artist talk will take place in German.