White Box - Project Space
The White Box is an exhibition and project space for the arts at Zeppelin University. The space is both a site for display and an experimental laboratory, one in which new curatorial formats are tested. The events at the White Box aim to create a dialogue between the arts, the scientific community and society that is both surprising and stimulating. To do so, the program engages with the university's research and teaching, or discusses wider social issues that are relevant for the institution.
People in charge
Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg, Academic Head of the artsprogram
Raehl Gloria Spöhrer, curatorial direction
Acknowledgements
The White Box exhibition space is sponsored by the Fränkel-Stiftung in the form of a Room Sponsorship and a regular support of the exhibition program.
Opening hours during the semester
28.03.2025
Opening 19-22 h
31.03.- 09.05. 2025
Mon-Fri 10-16
10.05. -31.08.2025
Open on request and for events
01.09.- 24.10.2025
Mon-Fri 10 am - 4 pm
Telephone: 0049 (0) 7541 6009 1302
Email: christina.peterfaj@zu.de
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Next exhibition in the White Box
The exhibition ‘Die Zeit danach – Friedrichshafen 1946’ (The Time After – Friedrichshafen 1946) will open at the White Box on Friedrichshafen Art Friday on 27 March. The aim is to create a growing participatory archive in which documents, images, objects and statements from contemporary witnesses on various topics are displayed. The exhibition draws on private and public archives and new media exceptions. The thematic areas include life in ruins, architecture and infrastructure during the transition, memory and shame. The exhibition will feature photographs, architectural blueprints and development plans for the city, documents and narratives that illustrate how people envisioned the future in the immediate post-war period and how their relationship to the totalitarian Nazi regime developed. Belarusian artist Marina Naprushkina, who has been bringing people together through her artistic practice for many years and encouraging them to create their own social and cultural spaces and infrastructures – most recently a lido abandoned by the state of Berlin, which has now been reopened as a cultural venue – was commissioned to develop the exhibition display. Naprushkina will create her exhibition display together with students using ropes, shelves and banners.
Previous exhibitions
Echt jetzt?
Immediacy and “realness” are the style phenomena of the moment. This is why #nofilter is the annual theme of artsprogram, which critically questions this new dictum. This takes place in an exhibition in the White Box with works by artists with care needs, which was created in collaboration with Galerie Käsering and the Goldbach Atelier from Überlingen, SKID gGmbH. The works of the neurodiverse artists process everyday routines and orders, familiar experiences and phantasms in pictorial worlds and open up a shared reality through this pictorial mediation.
28 | 03 | 2025
Further information Echt jetzt?
Blueprints for Studies
With ‘Blueprints for Studies’, the artsprogram is providing a study space by set designer Katharina Pia Schütz that is as reductionist as it is magical for one year. Bathed in bright blue, the space offers an egalitarian learning environment that seems to come from the future. Materials from a growing archive of experimental, failed and pioneering educational formats are shown here in changing displays. To mark the 20th anniversary of artsprogram in autumn 2024, this unique immersive environment will serve as a stage for a rich artistic programme.
15 | 03 | 2024 - 10 | 12 | 2024
Whiteface
Candice Breitz
Where does racism come from? What does it mean to be in a white skin? What privileges are associated with it? And what role do TV stars, comedians and bloggers play in mobilising resentment? In her video installation "Whiteface", created in 2022, Breitz deals with racist clichés, ways of speaking and patterns of argumentation as they circulate in the mass media every day and thus create poisoned resonance spaces and offers of identification.
16 | 09 | 2023 - 01 | 12 | 2023
Pranayama Typhoon 17 | 03 | 2023 - 05 | 05 | 2023
What does a post-heroic view of the tools and devices of war look like? Why are weapons so often named after animals and natural phenomena? What role do they play in the relationship of so-called civil societies to the world, and how civil are these societies in the first place? With her exhibition Pranayama Typhoon, shown at the White Box as part of the artsprogram's annual theme Being Wrong, Liverpool-born artist Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press (1966) approaches these questions from unexpected angles.
17 | 03 | 2023 - 05 | 05 | 2023
Weaving Dreams into Realities
Jeanne van Heeswijk
The interdisciplinary program Weaving Dreams into Realities , taking place at the White Box from 17.09. to 10.12.2022 focuses on the social transformational power of radical imagination and asks under what conditions it can become a catalyst for social and political change.
17 | 09 | - 10 | 12 | 2022
Algorithmic Rituals – The Infinite Self
Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg
In the installation Algorithmic Rituals - The Infinite Self by Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg, three robots perform a ritual. As moving parts in a machine tableaux vivant, they encounter the visitors and themselves.
10 | 03 | - 27 | 05 | 2022
Apocalypse and World Salvation
An exhibition project with Agnes Denes (USA), Arava Institute (ISR), Orkhan Huseynov (AZE), Michael Pawlyn/Exploration Architecture (GB), Oliver Ressler (A), Kateřina Šedá (CZ), Levi van Veluw (NL) & Pinar Yoldas (T/USA)
26 | 11 | 2020 – 01 | 02 | 2022
The Understanding Gaze - Photographs by Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu
The artsprogram of Zeppelin University, together with the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation and Camera Austria, has set up an interactive archive of photographs by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. There will be an event program on visual sociology and questions of visibility and invisibility.
10 | 10 | 2019 – 10 | 05 | 2020 (Extension until Fall Term 2020)
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu
Yoshiaki Kaihatsu
Together with students, employees and external guests, Kaihatsu transforms the university exhibition space into an "island of freedom" that can be played on for ten weeks. In an environment of artificial polar bear fur, poster islands, and a Speakers' Corner, short lectures, readings, and performances will take place - free of any specifications about the content.
08 | 03 - 10 | 05 | 2019
71% (play)
Martina Mächler
In the form of an audio installation, Martina Mächler deals with a decisive retreat space, of which capitalism critics in particular say that it is the only remaining area in which the subject remains inaccessible, vulnerable and unruly: the sleep.
09 | 10 | 2018 - 15 | 02 | 2019
Archaeology of the Present – Memory, Media, Matter
Forensic Architecture
The London collective Forensic Architecture (FA) around the Israeli architect Eyal Weizman showed three recent works in the university exhibition and project space "White Box".
16 | 02 – 15 | 09 | 2018
NEW EELAM
Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Kuhlmann
A cool-elegant, modular experience suite promotes the vision of a postnational and flexible life beyond a permanent residence and territorially bounded citizenship
07 | 09 - 01 | 12 | 2017
Dan Perjovschi
Dan Perjovschi
Wall drawings on the blackboard walls of the ZF Campus & in the artsprogram White Box
03 | 03 – 30 | 05 | 2017
Christian Falsnaes
Christian Falsnaes
Masculine demeanor as a consequence of social power relations between artist and audience
10 | 09 – 30 | 11 | 2016
Project "Learning Community“
mit Gintersdorfer/Klaßen, Margit Czenki, raumlabor berlin and Teilnehmenden
Künstlerische Leitung: Caroline Brendel & Luzi Gross
12 | 02 – 30 | 05 | 2016
Gregory Sholette
Marcel Kalberer
mit Marcel Kalberer and Teilnehmenden
Imaginary Archive | Zeppelin University Edition
12 | 09 – 26 | 11 | 2015
Archive of the artsprogram
All events by year (pages in German):
2019/20 | 2017/18 | 2016/17 | 2015/16 | 2014/15 | 2013/14 | 2012/13 | 2011/12 | 2010/11 | 2009/10 | 2004-2007