Led by visual artist Ülkü Süngün, the project combines artistic and empirical research. The empirical study, supervised by Prof. Dr. Ulaş Aktaş and Anujah Fernando at UdK Berlin, focuses on racism and inequality in higher education. Based on the research results, it aims to develop practical recommendations for dismantling and overcoming these barriers.

As a model project, the artistic research is based in the Media Art department at HfG Karlsruhe in cooperation with the ABK Stuttgart, AdBK Nuremberg, and HBK Braunschweig. The interdisciplinary core conceptual group – the LAB – brings together renowned experts from art and science, including Prof. Diana McCarty, Ülkü Süngün, Xingying Li, and Anna Feldbein (former) (HfG Karlsruhe); Prof. Heba Amin, Prof. Lucienne Roberts, Prof. Katrin Ströbel, and Carmen Westermeier (ABK Stuttgart); Prof. Anike Joyce Sadiq (AdBK Nuremberg); and Prof. Havîn Al-Sîndy (HBK Braunschweig).

The starting points for the artistic research include questions about knowledge production and archives, the decolonization of algorithms, the art canon in education, visual codes and drawing as political gestures, as well as self-institutionalization as an artistic-political strategy.

The project runs from June 2025 until December 2027. The results of the interdisciplinary research process will be presented in an international symposium and an exhibition in Karlsruhe in 2027.

BIPOC+ FLINTA* refers to all persons who identify as women, lesbians, trans*, intersex, non-binary, or genderqueer and who experience racist and/or antisemitic discrimination in Germany based on their (perceived) origin, religion, language, or appearance.