Opening and artist talk: Friday, August 25th, 7 pm
We don’t know nearly enough about Mongolia around these parts, at least most of us don’t. The young democracy is rich in resources and wedged in between Russia and China. Mongolia is approximately four times the size of Germany, but with just three million people, it is the least populated country… further information
Photo: AicherSchollKolleg
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Causing democracy: Justice!
Every other year, Stadthaus Ulm invites young people to submit work focussing on one democratic value for the photography exhibition ‘Causing Democracy!’
In 2023, the topic is justice. But what does ‘justice’ mean?
Where does the masquerade end and the self begin? With Suzanne Jongmans and Jason Gardner, Costume and masquerade presents two photographic positions that explore the human desire to escape the boundaries of one’s own skin – but from two very different perspectives.
Crypto mine in an old industrial complex. Location: Irkutsk, Russia
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Danny Franzreb: Proof of Work
In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto published a white paper entitled “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” in response to the financial crisis. This text was the birth of a new paradigm, the blockchain.
Based on Nakamoto’s vision, people around the world created a new infrastructure… further information
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Radio Garden
If you always wanted to listen in on radio programmes from all over the world — welcome to Radio Garden. Forget the distance between sender and receiver, Radio Garden knows no geographical or man-made barriers.
The Minster Square is the perceived centre of Ulm. It's where people left behind traces of their respective civilisations. These traces, which that are more than four millennia old, are much older than the Minster itself. Archaeologists found them when they studied the excavation pit and the… further information
Foto: SP/Stadthaus
Bronze busts of Hans and Sophie Scholl, created by Otl Aicher
100 Jahre Otl Aicher
Hans and Sophie Scholl
Busts, createt by Otl Aicher
If you ascend the stairs to the first floor at the Stadthaus, you encounter two bronze busts: the effigies of Hans and Sophie Scholl. The siblings were partisans of the resistance group "Die Weiße Rose" (the white rose), who were sentenced to death and executed at the prison in Munich-… further information
Photo: Katharina Bosse
Maxi and Casi, 2016
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Dog Days
In the summer of 2025, the Stadthaus is going to explore the peculiar bond between humans and dogs: who leads whom on a leash? Who is the top dog in the relationship between pooch and owner - in times when owners refer to themselves as "mom" and "dad", pampered puppies become… further information