From April 4 until May 27, 2022, TU Dresden’s Auditorium Center (Bergstraße 64) is hosting an exhibition of photographs by the French artist Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj on academics in exile. The exhibition “Poser pour la liberté / Standing for freedom” is the result of the RESTRICA (visions of current and past forced scientific exiles) photography project, launched in 2018 as collaboration between researcher Pascale Laborier and the Berlin-based French photographer, Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj. Over a period of three years, they created 51 portraits of researchers and academics in exile. Fifteen of these can be seen at the exhibition, which explores the topic of exile from four thematic approaches.

For more information, please visit http://www.standingforfreedom.eu/ or the TUD website: https://tud.link/b3mv

© Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj

The exhibition’s official opening is on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, at 6:00 pm. For this occasion, the artist Pierre-Jérôme Adjedj and curator Pascale Laborier will hold a podium discussion in the Alfred-Post-Hörsaal lecture theater HSZ/0002/E in the Auditorium Center. Dresden’s own Banda Comunale will provide musical accompaniment for the event. Media representatives are cordially invited to attend.

Further events:
Podium discussion “Liberté / Freedom: Science in the Face of Flight, Displacement and Exile”: Thursday, May 12, 2022, 6:30 pm, Auditorium Center (HSZ) of TU Dresden, Alfred-Post-Hörsaal lecture theater HSZ/0002/E

TU Dresden researchers with experience in exile and experts from academic organizations will discuss freedom in a globalized world.

The exhibition in Dresden and the accompanying events have been made possible thanks to a collaboration between TU Dresden – Center France | Francophonie, the Office for Academic Heritage, Scientific and Art Collections, International Campus, TUD in Dialogue – and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s Philipp Schwartz Initiative, the Institut Français Dresden  and the Büro für Hochschulkooperation (Office for Higher Education Collaboration) of the Embassy of France in Germany.

The exhibition and its accompanying events are free of charge.

Media inquiries:
Torsten König & Bettina Müller
Tel.: +49 351 463-32038