BILDUNGSMODERNE entzaubern
Between 2013 and 2019, Vienna and Vancouver-based artists Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber, together with the Frankfurt urban sociologist Klaus Ronneberger, followed the relocation of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt from the Bockenheim district to the Westend. Their artistic research combines a sociological analysis of the change of location with a particular photographic focus on the 1950s and 1960s campus architecture of the German architect Ferdinand Kramer.
An extensive compilation of images reminds one of the emancipatory potential of these architectures and “spaces of knowledge” of the university that were lost in Bockenheim. Especially today, in view of the disenchantment of universities after the neoliberal turn, these images and contributions demand an understanding of the university that can deliver on the former promises of modern education for emancipation, democratization and “education for all.”