With “PING PONG – Tuesday Evening Talks”, Galerie Parkhaus once again provides a platform in summer semester 2025 for interdisciplinary exchange on architecture, art, and the city. The series kicks off on May 13, 2025, with Annette Kisling's exhibition and talk: “Robin Hood Gardens. A Photographic Approach to a Disappearing Architecture.”
Annette Kisling lives in Berlin and Leipzig and is a professor of photography at the Academy of Fine Arts (HGB) Leipzig. Her work often consists of series that explore architectural structures and their transformation, with a particular focus on 20th-century modernism.

At the heart of her exhibition is the Robin Hood Gardens housing estate in London, built in the 1970s – an iconic, now-demolished example of brutalist architecture by Alison and Peter Smithson. Between 2015 and 2025, Kisling documented the gradual demolition and transformation of the site through photography. Her work addresses the redefinition of urban space and raises questions about memory, loss, and the future of architecture.

On the evening before, Monday, May 12, 2025, at 6:00 PM, Annette Kisling will give insights into her artistic practice and photographic approach as part of the gallery seminar.

Upcoming dates for the PING PONG – Tuesday Evening Talks series:
June 3, 2025: Wolfgang Lorch
June 24, 2025: Martin Baur and Florian Latsch
Location: Galerie Parkhaus, Department of Architecture, 1st floor TU Darmstadt
Start time: 7:00 PM (for all events)

More information available at:
www.bg.architektur.tu-darmstadt.de/galerie_parkhaus_bg