Art in the Context of Architecture and Urban History
Symposium on August 11, 2026
4–5 pm site visit of the installation Wellengang [Waves Passage]
with Ricarda Mieth
(Entrance next to the Brunnenhalle; no registration required)
7 pm Lecture evening at the thermal spa
initiated by the Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim [non-profit art association] and Stadtwerke Bad Dürkheim [public utilities]
at the thermal spa Salinarium in Bad Dürkheim
(Admission via the main entrance, advance registration required)
featuring lectures by:
- Britta Hallmann-Preuß, Director of the Bad Dürkheim City Museum,
on the spa industry’s boom in the 19th century
- Wolfgang Petrich, physicist at the Kirchhoff Institute,
on spectral analysis and the discovery of cesium
- Ricarda Mieth, visual artist,
on the design and implementation of the Wellengang and the Ceasiumuhr
- Steffen Egle, Director of the mpk, Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern,
on art in architecture