Public Programme of POWER
In his new book Building Carbon Europe (Sternberg Press, 2023) Dennis Pohl locates the origin of Europe's dependency on carbon and nuclear power in the postwar architectural designs and energy policies of the European Community. Since the 1950s, architects have proposed territorial, regional, and urban development plans that served the European political project. They collaborated with the European Coal and Steel Community in an effort to render the steel building industry as efficient as the car industry; they incorporated the ideas of infinite nuclear energy, as promoted by the European Atomic Energy Community, into their designs.
During the evening Dennis Pohl will be in conversation with artist Armin Linke (Milan, 1966), whose artistic contribution accompanies the historic analysis with new documentation of the ongoing energy debate. His images span from oil and gas fields in Russia, Azerbaijan, and the Middle East, river dams in China, uranium mines in Niger, new energy infrastructure in the North Sea, and energy control rooms in Brussels conveying a geopolitical terrain marked by energy crises, shifting power dynamics and the call for cleaner energy alternatives.
Parallel to the exhibition POWER, the Goethe-Institut Brussels supports the event series POWER Talks - a public program of lectures, roundtable discussions, and film screenings which among others features Thomas Auer, Daniel Barber, BC Architects, Oana Bogdan, Arno Brandlhuber, Koenraad Danneels, Andrés Jaque, Jeanette Kuo, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Philippe Rahm, Bas Smets, Paulo Tavares, Ola Uduku and many more.
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