Talks & Events

2025
Hello Mitte, we need to talk!
Till Breckner and Dimitrios Argirakos in conversation with Henning Höne and Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann
Auditorium of the K20, Düsseldorf

2025
The world in transition – Strategies for an uncertain future
Dr. Ralf Wintergerst, Group CEO of Giesecke + Devrient and President of the Bitkom Association
Industrieclub Düsseldorf

2024
Time is running out. On the significance of time in art, culture, and society.
A keynote speech by Florian Illies
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2024
The Football Matrix – in search of the perfect game
Dr. Stephan Nopp und Joti Chatzialexiou, both DFB
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2023
The Origin of Life
How Life emerged on Earth
William F. Martin, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf
Kunstverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2022
Nahschuss/ Close Shot
Film screening and discussion with the author-director Franziska Stünkel about the last execution victim of the GDR
Bambi Filmkunstkino, Düsseldorf

2021
ZEITmagazin in conversation with Tony Cragg
with Christoph Amend
Studio Tony Cragg, Düsseldorf

2020
Zeitmagazin in conversation with Günther Uecker and Joachim Gauck
with Christoph Amend
Kunsthalle Rostock

2020
Benefit concert for earthquake victims in Albania
Palais Wittgenstein, Düsseldorf

2018
Russia – from Perestroika to Putin
In Conversation with Fritz Pleitgen and Kai Diekmann
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2018
Man In Space: How a work of art came to the moon
Al Worden, astronaut of the Apollo 15 mission in 1972, and artist Paul van Hoeydonck in conversation
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2018
Sternzeichen/ Zodiac Signs
Jürgen Kaube, editor of the F.A.Z., in conversation with Markus Lüpertz
Palmengarten, Frankfurt

2013
Christo – two works in progress
A keynote speech by the artist Christo
Auditorium des K20, Düsseldorf

2012
The Morning or Hölderlin
Works for the 22nd Olympic Games in London by Markus Lüpertz
Interview with the gold medal winners of the German team
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2011
Below zero
Reading and panel talk about homelessness with Günther Wallraff
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf

2010
Chancellor Stories – Portraits of Konrad Rufus Müller
with Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft
Galerie Breckner, Düsseldorf