Science & Art

The dialogue between disciplines – in particular between the sciences and the visual arts – has been burgeoning for years. Especially science institutions have discovered art as a medium to intelligibly communicate their specialized knowledge to a broader public. The Ernst Schering Foundation, however, is interested less in science communication than in a dialogue between artists and scientists at a more fundamental level. To this end, it launched the Forum on Science and Art as early as 2005. The Forum aims both for an exchange of methods and approaches and for a dialogue on socially relevant issues and topics.

In addition, the Foundation in 2009 opened the Project Space for Art and Science at Unter den Linden, which serves as a platform for exhibitions, lectures and workshops at the interface of science and art. One focus is on the presentation of "art as research."

Rethinking urban mobility

09.08.2012, Berlin | The Humboldt University Berlin will host the KOSMOS Summer University 2012 – Mobility from September 6 to September 19, 2012. The event addresses the interdisciplinary basic research and the expansion of an international network with Latin America as its focus. The aim of KOSMOS 2012 is the development of research strategies that combine natural sciences, techniques and engineering, the humanities and design disciplines in an experimental project focusing on mobility in an urban space. There are two cities that serve as scenarios of challenge for the interdisciplinary design of mobility concepts: Berlin is recently making a name for itself as a space where future-oriented urban mobility is created, and Buenos Aires is one of the dynamic metropolises of South America.

ON RESEARCH – Knowledge Generation in Art and Science

16.04.2012, Berlin | What scientific methods are used by artists, and what artistic approaches are used by scientists? These and other questions will be at the heart of ON RESEARCH, a two-day program at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), which takes place in the context of a conference on “Research in Art and Science. Challenges to Discourses and Systems of Knowledge.” The conference and the artistic program, which is open to the public, are a collaboration of the Center for Movement Research at the Free University of Berlin, the HKW, the Ernst Schering Foundation, and Sigrid Gareis.

Never Mind – a “Neuro Performance” at the Sophiensæle

10.01.2012, Berlin | What is our self, what is capable of destroying it, and how can it be recovered? These and other difficult questions are at the heart of “Never Mind,” an interdisciplinary stage production by choreographer Sommer Ulrickson and molecular biologist and writer Giovanni Frazzetto. The play “Never Mind” an experiment at the interface of science and theater, will premiere at the Sophiensæle on January 25, 2012.

Universal or Random? Complexity Research Beyond Traditional Disciplines

On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, at 6.30 p.m., Prof. Dr. Hans H. Diebner, Head of the Performative Science Project – Basic Research at the Interface Between Art and Science at the Institute for New Media (INM), Frankfurt, will give a public talk "Complexity Research Beyond Traditional Disciplines" at the Ernst Schering Foundation. The lecture is related to the exhibtion „IRRATIONAL COMPUTING“ by artist Ralf Baecker, which is shown at the Ernst Schering Foundation's project Space until December 17, 2011.

Code and Material – Algorithms in Art

One week after Prof. Diebner's talk on complexity reasearch, Prof. Dr. Georg Trogemann, Professor of Experimental Computer Science & Audio-Visual Media, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, will give a public talk about "Algorithms in Art", accompanying the exhibtion "IRRATIONAL COMPUTING" by Ralf Baecker. The lecture at the Ernst Schering Foundation on Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 6.30 p.m. will present how symbolic systems and materials enter into new constellations.

Interdisciplinary Conference on “Body Images in Art and Science”

On September 7-11, 2011, the Young Academy at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina held an interdisciplinary conference on “Body Images in Art and Science” at the Rondo Convention Center in Pontresina (Switzerland). The Ernst Schering Foundation supported the conference as an interdisciplinary dialogue platform on body images in art and science.

Sound / Space / Body – A Process

The interdisciplinary artistic research project “Sound / Space / Body – A Process” will have its première on May 28, 2011, at the Radialsystem V. Under the direction of choreographer Louise Wagner, neuroscientists, philosophers, and dancers put the physical awareness of self at the center of an interdisciplinary study inspired by an installation by the pioneer of sound art: Prof. Bernhard Leitner. In her project, Louise Wagner uses the medium of dance to study the perception of sound, in order to communicate a different – physical – way of hearing through seeing movement.

English Theatre Berlin: "An Experiment With An Air Pump"

As part of the series Science Theatre, the English Theatre in Berlin presents "An Experiment With An Airpump" by English playwright Shelagh Stephenson. The play - prepared and presented in cooperation with scientists and students of the Institute of Biology and Microbiology at Freie Universität Berlin - is a transdisciplinary cooperation project at the interface of natural science and performing arts. With two compelling examples from two different times in history, Stephenson addresses the topic of prenatal diagnosis, the human body as research object and the role of women in science. She explores the question of how much morality science can take – and how much it needs. The Ernst Schering Foundation supports the production for its innovative cooperation between Artists and Scientists and its approach to social and ethical aspects in science.

Research in Art and Academia. Challenges for Discourses and Knowledge Systems

4 and 5 May 2012, Haus der Kulturen der Welt

Concept Group:

Seminar Summary
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Brandstetter (FU Berlin)
Sigrid Gareis
Heike Catherina Mertens (Schering Stiftung)
Prof. Dr. Bernd Scherer (Haus der Kulturen der Welt)

Carsten Höller - Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald and SOMA

Carsten Höller’s exhibition “Rentier im Zöllnerstreifenwald,” on display at the Project Space of the Ernst Schering Foundation, is a cooperation with the Berlin National Gallery. In the context of his extensive solo exhibition, SOMA, at the National Gallery’s Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin, the artist developed his new work Rentier rot-grün (Reindeer red-green) for the Ernst Schering Foundation, continuing his artistic exploration of the phi-phenomenon, which he began in 2001.

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