We are happy to present you a visual recap of the two conference days “Black Mountain – Educational Turn and the Avant-Garde” from 25-26/09/2015 at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, with fantastic drawings, that is, courtroom sketches of the participating speakers by the artist Nikolaus Baumgarten (nikkki.net) and photos from our Instagram feed. All videos from the conference will be uploaded on this website soon. Until then, if you are interested, also check out the videos from our first conference “Black Mountain – Models of Creativity” here.

Welcome by Gabriele Knapstein, Eugen Blume and Annette Jael Lehmann drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Intro Mariama Diagne drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Intro Anna-Lena Werner drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

James Elkins drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Matt Wright on the turntables drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Matt Wright on the turntables drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Annette Jael Lehmann drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Eva Díaz drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Eva Díaz drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Dieter Lesage drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

The audience Dieter Lesage drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

The audience drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Chris Salter drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Chris Salter drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Panel with Gabriele Knapstein, Patrick Müller, Nina Möntmann, Claudia Olk, Irene Campolmi and Julian Klein (26 /09 / 2015)

Panel with Gabriele Knapstein, Patrick Müller, Nina Möntmann drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Irit Rogoff drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Irit Rogoff drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Yvonne Reiners and Christina Kral drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

Yvonne Reiners and Christina Kral drawn by Nikolaus Baumgarten.

photos from our Instagram feed:

James Elkins on ‘What is Research?’ (Keynote, 25 /09 / 2015)

Matt Wright on the turntables (25 /09 / 2015)

Annette Jael Lehmann giving an introduction to educational models at Black Mountain (26 /09 / 2015)

Eva Díaz on Josef Albers models of experimentation (26 /09 / 2015)

Dieter Lesage on the “Black Mountain Symptom” (26 /09 / 2015)

Panel with Gabriele Knapstein, Patrick Müller, Nina Möntmann, Claudia Olk, Irene Campolmi and Julian Klein (26 /09 / 2015)

Irit Rogoff on ‘Free Knowledge’ (26 /09 / 2015)

Christina Kral and Yvonne Reiners about Buckminster Fuller’s “World Game” (26 /09 / 2015)