Incontri al Corso 18 – with Laura Helena Wurth

 

A new look at the architecture of Rome

INCONTRI AL CORSO 18 is a series of events in which the scholarship holders, who live and work in Via del Corso 18 for two months at a time, present their projects in an open dialogue with Gregor H. Lersch, Director of the Casa di Goethe, and the audience.

The scholarship holder Laura Helena Wurth will create a detailed radio feature in Rome about the influence of the architect Plautilla Bricci on the history and thus also on the legibility of Baroque Rome. Plautilla Bricci (Rome, 1616-1705) not only demonstrably erected buildings in the city, but also painted. In comparison to the architect Astra Zarina, who worked in Berlin in the 1960s, a parallel will be drawn and a new view of the city and who built for whom will be offered.

The event will be held in German language.

 

Laura Helena Wurth, born 1989 in Berlin, is an author and critic. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Art and Culture from Maastricht University and a Master’s degree from Humboldt University in Berlin. She writes regularly about contemporary art and architecture for the FAZ, FAS, NZZ and is an editor at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. She is co-founder of the project space FKA SIX, which addressed the topic of contemporary ruins in a shopping centre in 2023. Together with Louisa Hölker, she publishes the monothematic art magazine One to(o) Many, which unites many different voices into a single work of art.

We would like to thank the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation for supporting the scholarship programme.