Workshop & Lecture Recap — Kuki Iwański, 26 November 2025
On 26 November 2025, students from the 100 Poster Battle, the Master Editorial program and students from the class of Prof. Markus Lange at TH Nürnberg took part in an intensive workshop and lecture with visual artist and designer Kuki Iwański. The session revolved around the idea of “extinct moments” — everyday experiences that have quietly vanished from our fast, optimized culture. These are moments that once felt natural but have become rare: being unreachable for a while, walking through a city without constant advertising, making choices without algorithmic nudging, speaking to someone without a screen nearby, taking an undocumented holiday, or cultivating a friendship that exists entirely offline.
Each student selected one such disappearing moment and translated it into a symbolic flag. Instead of illustrating the moment directly, they were asked to reduce it to its visual essence — distilling it into form, contrast, rhythm and symbolic clarity. Many chose to connect their concepts to ecological themes, highlighting the fading environmental states and cultural practices that shape our collective present. The resulting flags act as markers of cultural or ecological conditions that have slipped away, forming a small archive of things we once had but rarely notice are gone.
The workshop was followed by a lecture in which Kuki Iwański introduced his artistic practice. Working across identity, installation and print, his work investigates how symbols, colour and form influence collective experience. He is widely known for his experimental flags and large-scale spatial interventions, including the ongoing project Ghosts of Tomorrow, exhibited in cities throughout Europe and Asia. His visual language is bold and highly reduced, often critically engaging with consumerism, memory and the transformations of contemporary life. Alongside commissioned work, he continues to develop long-term artistic projects that explore clarity, reduction and the communicative power of imagery in public space.
Prof. Lars Harmsen
