"Through the Prism of Borders" with Ingrid Kofler

Saturday, February 7, 2026, 10 AM – 1 PM
Start: 10 AM at the South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences

Through the Prism of Borders explores the manifold meanings of the border and its political, spatial, and personal narratives. The works of eight international artists — Pamela Dodds, Esra Ersen, Boris Missirkov & Georgi Bogdanov, Ivan Moudov, Karin Schmuck, Zorka Wollny, and ZimmerFrei (Anna de Manincor) — address themes related to migration, collective memory, identity, and the relationship with the landscape, transforming the border into a space of encounter and transformation.

The exhibition, produced by Lungomare as part of the European project B-Shapes – Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies, is distributed across various locations in the city of Bolzano — the BZ ’18–’45 Documentation Exhibition at the Victory Monument, Eurac Research, the Mercantile Museum, the Civic Museum, and the South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences — creating a dialogue between contemporary art, history, science, and landscape.

On Saturday, February 7, from 10 AM to 1 PM, the public is invited to join a special guided tour led by Ingrid Kofler.
The tour will start at the South Tyrol Museum of Natural Sciences and continue through the Mercantile Museum and the Civic Museum, inviting participants to reflect on the intersections between art, science, and society through the lenses of culture and identity.

Ingrid Kofler is Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the Faculty of Design and Art at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. Her research is inter- and transdisciplinary, employing qualitative and participatory methods. She teaches in the Master in Eco-Social Design and the Bachelor in Design, and her interests include culture, identity, borders, future studies, globalization, social change, and eco-social transformation.

An opportunity to explore the exhibition from a sociological and cultural perspective, connecting artistic practice with research on transformation, coexistence, and the borders that shape our shared futures.