Arts & Science
Exhibition with new pictures
- from 23 April 2025, Café on Mittelweg 177, Studierendenwerk
- 4 April until 27 June 2024, Hamburg Airport, "Kunst am Gate" (security area)
- 12 September until mid-October 2023, CFEL, Luruper Chaussee 149
- 29 August to 11 September 2023, European XFEL, Holzkoppel 4
- 4 to 24 April 2023, Hamburg's City Hall
The exhibition “Arts & Science” reveals itself on closer inspection: it presents images from the micro world of scientific fundamental research at The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging – wavelike shapes and color explosions, but also direct images recorded with electron microscopes. There is a lot of room for interpretation, and it is up to the observers to just let the beauty of the images sink in or to learn about the physics and chemistry behind the images from the accompanying texts in English and German.
“Arts & Science” is an initiative of the cluster of excellence. The members of CUI were asked to hand it aesthetically appealing pictures – regardless of their scientific significance or newsworthiness. A jury, which was joined in the beginning by a professor from the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HFBK), identified the final selection. The result is a pure aesthetic view on research in natural sciences.
"Arts & Science" was on display for the first time in the hallway of Hamburg City Hall from June 1 - 15, 2017. In 2023, the exhibition was revised and equipped with new scientific images and photos of laboratories and experiments. QR codes lead to videos in which researchers explain their work
Videos
Moleküle im Fokus - Franziska Esmek about the BioRead project.
Quantensimulation - Max Hachmann and Yann Kiefer in the lab.
Die Quantenwelt - Prof. Peter Schmelcher about the innovative research field.
Kunst und Wissenschaft - Prof. Peter Schmelcher on changing perspective.
Coronaviren - in the X-ray view at DESY.
Film about the exhibition 2017
Arts and science - how do these two go together? Go on a visual journey with our film about the exhibition 2017 (photo: Thomas White).
Arts & Science-Team
Organization:
Ingeborg Adler, Public Outreach CUI
Dr. Hans Behringer, Managing Director CUI
Dr. Joerg Harms, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter
Anika Ostermaier-Grabow, Managing Director CUI
Prof. Peter Schmelcher, member of the Board of Directors CUI
Annika Schonefeld, Public Outreach CUI
Claudia Busch, former Managing Director CUI (until 2019)
Artistic advisor:
Prof. Julia Lohmann, the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg (HFBK)
Photos and technical advisor:
Peter Garten, freelance photographer, Hamburg
Shows
Permanently: Hamburg Advanced Research Center for Bioorganic Chemistry
4 – 21 May 2018, European XFEL
16 January – 5 February 2018, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
1-14 November 2017, Center for Free-Electron Laser Science
23 August 2017 – 7 September 2017, European XFEL – accompanying the festive inauguration
8-23 August 2017, Hamburg City Hall
1-15 June 2017, Hamburg City Hall
All pictures are printed in DIN A1 format on Alu-Dibond (aluminum composite material) and are subject to fire protection class M1. If you are interested in the exhibition, please email cui.office@uni-hamburg.de(cui.office"AT"cui.uni-hamburg.de).