From May 19th, 2025: Exhibition "Celestial Classrooms" showcasing astrophoto­graphs by Hermann Krone

Under the title "This is the picture of the world that one considers to be the best" (loosely based on a citation by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections at TU Dresden will be showing three cabinet exhibitions in its gallery in the Görges-Bau from May 2025, featuring works by contemporary artists in dialog with scientific teaching and research objects from the university's collections. Installation and performance artist Sophie Lindner will kick things off (May to September 2025), followed by filmmaker collective Neozoon (September to November 2025) and photographer Andrea Grützner (November 2025 to January 2026).

From May 19, 2025, Sophie Lindner will take over the cabinets on the first floor and first floor of the Görges Building with an installative arrangement in which she explores the history and work of East German observatories. The artist deliberately incorporates the material heritage of these institutions, which represents a unique cosmos of knowledge history and social policy in the 20th century, into her installations in order to highlight the historical connections between transformation and knowledge transfer. In addition to photographs, drawings, her own works and archive materials, experimental astrophotographs by photography pioneer Hermann Krone (as reproductions) as well as objects from the Astronomical-Geodetic Collection and the Cartographic Collection of TU Dresden are also on display.

© TUD, Hermann-Krone-Sammlung

Further information on the gallery's exhibition program at
https://tu-dresden.de/kustodie/ausstellungen/aktuell