Wednesday, September 10, 2025, 11 a.m.
LMTA Central Building, Juozas Karosas Hall (Gedimino ave. 42, Vilnius)
On September 10, 2025, art historian Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwigs and Maximilians University of Munich) will visit the LMTA to give a public lecture for researchers, doctoral students in art and art history, students, the LMTA community, and alumni.
Everyone interested in current artistic research is invited to attend. The lecture will be held in English.
Professor Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich) is a leading researcher and head of the Käte Hamburger Research Center “global dis:connect”. She studies modernity and contemporary art, delving into the processes and phenomena of exile and migration in the fields of photography, architecture, fashion, and street art. As the principal investigator, Burcu Dogramaci implemented the highly acclaimed project “Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile” (METROMOD) (2017–2023, https://metromod.net), which was funded by the European Research Foundation (ERC).
Latest publications:
“London Exile: Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic Migration“ (Leuven University Press, 2025,
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105084);
“Grenze|Granica. Art on the German-Polish Border after 1990“ (with Marta Smolińska, Böhlau
2024, https://www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entdecken/kunst-und-architektur/kunstgeschichte-kunstwissenschaft/58903/grenze/granica?c=1763);
“Urban Exile. Theories, Methods, Research Practices“ (Intellect, 2023, ed. with Ekaterina Aygün et al., https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/61621);
“Handbook of Art and Global Migration Theories, Practices, and Challenges“ (ed. with
Birgit Mersmann, De Gruyter, 2019).
Lecture “Art (History) on the move: Dis:connectivity, Entanglements and Exile“
Exile and migration have shaped 20th-century art and contributed to new artistic concepts and forms of expression. My lecture will explore recent approaches which could help to explore art and art history as “on the move”. Based on case studies, passages, detours, absences, and interruptions will be analysed as indications of a dis:connective art history in a global perspective. In addition, practices of entanglement and kinship will be discussed, which can be a further effect of displacements – for example, when exiles come together and jointly present themselves in front of the camera and (in the sense of “doing exile”) form an exile community. My lecture understands entanglement and dis:connectivity not only as practices closely linked to phenomena of exile in art. Rather, the perspective of researchers should also be situated in this context: how, for example, can dis:connective phenomena be communicated in art-historical exile research, and how can digital methods mediate research findings on a topic marked by absences and losses?
