Künstler*innen als Agent*innen der Bilder (Artists as Agents of Images)
Lecture by Dr. Annette Vowinckel
as part of the exhibition The Invented History (In German)

19 January 2021
Maschinenhaus M2

Artists communicate mainly via their works of art. Yet at the same time they are protagonists of history: In images and words they can support or oppose wars, ideologies or the works of fellow artists. Based on three examples, Annette Vowinckel will show that artists do not only reflect on history but steer and alter historical developments.

Due to the current pandemic, Dr Annette Vowinckel's lecture Artists as Agents of Images was recorded in camera on 19 January 2021 in the Maschinenhaus M2 of the KINDL.

Annette Vowinckel (* 1966 in Hagen) is head of the department of media history at the Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung / Center for Contemporary History Potsdam and teaches history at Humboldt University Berlin. Among her publications are a cultural history of airplane hijacking (Kulturgeschichte der Flugzeugentführung, 2011) and a history of documentary photography (Agenten der Bilder. Fotografisches Handeln im 20. Jahrhundert, 2016), in which she focuses on photojournalists and photo editors as “image agents.”