2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm (20 minutes each)

max. two households at the same time with prior registration and after confirmation at: info@kaistrasse10.de | 0211 99 434 130

The current visit rules apply: Wear a face mask, keep distance, disinfect your hands. The guided tours and admission are free.

2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm (20 minutes each)

max. two households at the same time with prior registration and after confirmation at: info@kaistrasse10.de | 0211 99 434 130

The current visit rules apply: Wear a face mask, keep distance, disinfect your hands. The guided tours and admission are free.

2 pm, 3 pm, 4 pm (20 minutes each)

max. two households at the same time with prior registration and after confirmation at: info@kaistrasse10.de | 0211 99 434 130

The current visit rules apply: Wear a face mask, keep distance, disinfect your hands. The guided tours and admission are free.

| Postponement of the event to a later date |

Artist Talk with artist and film maker Teboho Edkins, and collector and founder of the digital art network “Archie's Nose”, Mario von Kelterborn, moderated by Ludwig Seyfarth.

| Cancellation due to given reason by the organizer of the Night of the Museums Düsseldorf. |

Guided tours through the exhibition 7, 9, 11 pm | Screening programme with works by the artists of the exhibition 20, 22, 24 pm | The curator Ludwig Seyfarth will play classical music | entrance: 14 Euro for all venues

Welcome 
Monika Schnetkamp, Chairwoman Arthena Foundation

Introduction
Ludwig Seyfarth, Curator of the exhibition

In the course of the 19th century major cities in Europe were increasingly pervaded by artificial light. The nocturnal semi-darkness of the cities provided an ideal breeding ground for all kinds of amusement and excesses. Here, diverse ways of life beyond political, aesthetic or social rules and regulations of daytime were able to thrive. It was the figure of the night roamer that from then on became the paragon of modern, urban identity. Many visual artists, authors and filmmakers have created works honouring the nocturnal flâneur as a distinct societal character. In her lecture, Elisabeth Bronfen portrays the nocturnal city and its protagonists of a time that shows quite a few parallels to the non-stop frenzy of activity of our present day, likewise marked by fundamental societal and extensive technical changes.

Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Zurich and, since 2007, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University. She did her PhD at the University of Munich, on literary space in the work of Dorothy M. Richardson’s novel sequence Pilgrimage, as well as her habilitation, five years later, on representations of femininity and death. A specialist in the 19th and 20th century literature, she has also written articles and books in the area of gender studies, psychoanalysis, film, cultural theory and visual culture – amongst them Night Passages. Philosophy, Literature and Film (2013). She is a frequent contributor for local and international news publications and broadcasts, serving as an expert on culture as well as American politics.