Marie Louise Krogh reads The Concept of History by Walter Benjamin

To unfold the theoretical background of Crossings a series of collective readings are taking place in the exhibition. Angela Melitopoulos and Kunsthal Charlottenborg have invited theoreticians and artists to present a text related to Crossings.

This text from 1940 was among the last finished pieces by German philosopher, critic and cultural historian Walter Benjamin: an enigmatic collection of theses on the concept of history which has invited endless interpretations. Marie Louise Krogh is a researcher and writer whose work has focused on Benjamin’s conceptions of time and history. She is currently doing a PhD on philosophies of history and contemporary questions of temporality and territory at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London.

The collective reading is in English and takes place in the exhibition spaces. Texts will be provided, and no preparations needed.