Programme

HILMA af KLINT

Exploring Hilma af Klint’s Spiritual Quest Through Art

Saturday 3rd June 2023

Registration

10.00 – 10.15 Welcome – Andrew Wolpert, Coordinator of the Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science in Great Britain

Symposium Moderator, Adrian Locher, Council, Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain

10.15 – 11.45 Symposium I: Hilma af Klint – An Artist in her Time

  • Was the Invention of Abstract Art Inspired by Esoteric Movements? – Raphael Rosenberg, Professor of Modern Art History at the University of Vienna
  •  The 1913 Stockholm Exhibition: Theosophical Receptions of New Forms of Art – Marco Pasi, Director of the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam
  • Hilma af Klint: A Steiner Rosicrucian Theosophist who became a Lifelong Anthroposophist – Kurt Almqvist, President of Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit; co-editor of Hilma af Klint’s Catalogue Raisonné, Stockholm

11.45 – 12.15 Coffee Break

12.15 – 13.15 Symposium II: Hilma af Klint and Rudolf Steiner

  • The Infamous Studio Visit – Truth and Fiction in the Story of Hilma af Klint and Rudolf Steiner – Hedvig Martin-Ahlèn, PhD Candidate at the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam
  • Hilma af Klint and her Encounter with Rudolf Steiner – Anne Weise, Editor at the Rudolf Steiner Archive in Dornach, Switzerland

13.15 – 14.30 Lunch Break

14.30 – 15.45 Workshops and Discussion Groups

  1. Painting workshop: Exploring Colour Dynamics and Form – Angela Lord, international artist and author
  2. Painting workshop: Exploring Space, Composition and Colour in the Work of Hilma af Klint using large format – Johanna Berger, visual artist and art therapist
  3. Eurythmy workshop: Moving Colour and Form – Coralee Frederickson, eurythmist
  4. Discussion: Rudolf Steiner’s Artistic Impulse – Christiane Haid & Fritz Wefelmeyer, Humanities Section of the School of Spiritual Science
  5. Discussion: The Life and Work of Hilma af Klint – Kurt Almqvist & Hedvig Martin-Ahlèn (see above)
  6. Exhibition with Discussion: Introduction to the Goetheanum and Rudolf Steiner’s Architecture – Andrew Wolpert (see above)

15.45 – 16.15 Tea Break

16.15 – 17.45 Symposium III: Hilma af Klint – An Artist for our Time

  • Relating to Hilma af Klint’s Paintings – Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Painter, transdisciplinary artist and cultural practitioner, Oxfordshire
  • Plenum Discussion: Kurt Almqvist, Hedvig Martin-Ahlèn, Anne Weise, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Raphael Rosenberg, Marco Pasi, Adrian Locher (Moderator)
  1. Rounding off – Coralee Frederickson

18.00 Supper Break

19.00 – 19.20 Pre-performance talk – Severin Fraser, Co-director Else Klink Ensemble

19.30 Performance: INSCAPES – Eurythmeum Stuttgart – Else Klink Ensemble

20.30 Finish