new year's reception⎟Challenge 2025 - German economy: ways out of stagnation?
Tuesday January 28th, 2025, 7pm–9pmBY PERSONAL INVITATION ONLY
Monika Schnitzer has been chair of the German Council of Economic Experts since October 2022, having been a member since April 2020. She is Professor of Comparative Economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. She has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University. From 2015 to 2016, she chaired the Verein für Socialpolitik, the largest association of economists in the German-speaking world. In July 2022, she received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Kiel. Her research focuses on innovation, competition and multinational enterprises. Monika Schnitzer has been a political consultant for 20 years.
On 13 November 2024, the German Council of Economic Experts presented its Annual Report 2024/25 on macroeconomic development to the Federal Chancellor. Schnitzer: 'In Germany, there have been political and economic failures in recent years and decades. This makes it all the more important to push ahead with the modernisation of our country with determination.'
I see this conversation as a seismograph of our times, just like our current exhibition on three major social issues from the perspective of female artists, some of whom live on the African continent, others in Europe or the USA.
VOICES FROM ABROAD
09 November 2024 - 19 February 2025
Mbali Dhlamini (*1990 ZA), Nnenna Okore (*1975 AUS/NGR), Buhlebezwe Siwani (*1987 ZA)
**Curated by Dr Renate Wiehager (Head of the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection until 2023) **
The artist Buhlebezwe Siwani has been nominated for the Future Generation Art Prize of the Pinchuk Art Centre.
On the occasion of the exhibition, I will talk to Monika Schnitzer about Germany and the 'Future Generation':
How can we deal with failure and act decisively?
The Munich Speech® is an exclusive, international, non-profit series of events, to discuss cutting-edge art- and culture-topics. The name Munich Speech® derives from the celebrated series „Speeking about your own country: Germany“ at the Kammerspiele Munich in 1985 with Joseph Beuys.
Produced and presented since 2014 by Dietlinde Behncke (cultural manager and journalist, formerly at ZDF headquarter Berlin), the focus lies on outstanding positions/ personalities, who change, take action for or develop visions for Munich or change an institution in the world from Munich and who receive direct and immediate attention through the Munich Speech®. Due to the corona pandemic, there were also Munich Speech® digital live streams in 2020-2022.
The events took place three to four times a year until 2022 in André and Dietlinde Behncke's private apartment. The events are currently taking place at behncke gallery, since the gallery was founded on January 31, 2023.
Previous guests in 2017 included Dr. Roger Diederen (Director Kunsthalle Munich) with the FAUST-FESTIVAL MUNICH, 2018 Dr. Angelika Nollert (Director Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne), 2019 2022 Serge Dorny (Bavarian State Opera Director), 2022 Dr. Eva Kraus (Director Bundeskunsthalle Bonn) "No future without transformation?" or Andrea Lissoni (in 2021 and 2022) - Artistic Director Haus der Kunst and Sarah Haugeneder (Boardmember Various Others), Prof. Bernhard Maaz (Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections) on the subject of "Art deals with the essence of life" or 2024 Dr. Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy (Director Franz Marc Museum, Kochel).
