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Art & Science

Multiple dates

The Barberini Studio regularly hosts exciting art talks on current topics related to art in the museum:

Art at Noon – Lecture Series on the Current Exhibition
With Katharina Raab, Art Historian
Katharina Raab is an art educator working with museums in Berlin and at the Museum Barberini.

Mon, September 21, 1:00 p.m.
Mon, September 28, 1:00 p.m.
Mon, October 5, 1:00 p.m.

Join us for an engaging exploration of the stories behind the paintings in the current exhibition. Discover fascinating insights into the creation of the artworks, their significance, and their place within art history.
This lecture series highlights key developments in art history, introduces major artists and masterpieces from different artistic movements, and offers fresh perspectives on the works on display. Together, we will consider the many ways in which artworks can be viewed and interpreted: What stories do they tell? Which historical, social, and cultural contexts shaped their creation? And what role do they play in the broader narrative of art history?

Each session focuses on a specific aspect of the exhibition and invites participants to look at the artworks from new angles. Following the lecture, there will be time for questions, discussion, and the exchange of ideas.
 

Thu, October 1, 5.30 pm
Art meets Physics
Dr Christina Rempe and Martin Koll

The French painters Paul Signac and George Seurat took the art world by surprise in the 19th century with a completely new painting technique: instead of flat brushstrokes, where the colours had already been mixed on the palette or canvas, they applied precise dots of pure colour placed close together. They did not choose these colours at random, but based their choices on the modern theory of colour being developed at the same time by scientists such as the chemist Eugène Chevreul and the physicist Ogden Rood. The lecture bridges the gap between art and the natural sciences, as well as between the past and the present. How can the distinctive luminosity and colour brilliance of Signac and Seurat’s works be explained? And what does all this have to do with your smartphone’s display? These and other fascinating questions about the technique of Divisionism will be explored together.

Dr Christina Rempe is a Food Chemist and STEM educator; Martin Koll is a Social Scientist and Director of the NANO Science Centre in Potsdam.

Duration
60 minutes

Meeting point:
Foyer

Location
Barberini Studio, Humboldtstr. 4, 14467 Potsdam; next to the museum

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