New Year's reception⎮Economic policy in the polycrisis – how do we overcome the challenges?

BY PERSONAL INVITATION ONLY
Moritz Schularick has been the new President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy since June 2023. Schularick, born in 1975, previously conducted research at New York University, the University of Cambridge, the Free University of Berlin and in the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, among others.

Highly decorated with the most important German research prize, the Leibniz Prize 2022, he is considered one of the most renowned German economists, but also controversial. As he says, he wants to brush politics against the grain and be uncomfortable. Moritz Schularick is characterised by the fact that he speaks an open language. Schularick has also made a name for himself as a crisis researcher. Immediately after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Schularick called for an immediate gas embargo on Russia. In the summer of 2023, he said: "We would have got through the winter without Russian gas, the politicians just didn't dare. My reading is that we haven't been particularly successful in recent crises and that we often lack the intellectual infrastructure, the mental flexibility, the necessary dose of pragmatism to let the rules be the rules and do what the situation requires." Moritz Schularick stands for crisis expertise. What plans does he have for the institute?

In interviews, he draws comparisons with works of art/artists. Artists as seismographs of their time, as I also understand it. The topicality of this conversation forms a link to the current exhibition

Dieter Blum⎮MEN
November 10, 2023 – February 9, 2024

With his world-famous advertising photographs for Marlboro from the 1990s, 88-year-old German photographer Dieter Blum transformed the myth of freedom in the American campaign. Many of his motifs have become part of the mainstream of the collective visual memory. Blum's trademark: The coarse grain and exaggerated colours that give his works an almost cinematic dramatic quality. The exhibition shows around fifteen large-format and now rare photographs, including the last available image ofLow Clearance.

We are establishing a unique "think tank" / dialogue concept for galleries.
Pragmatism, freedom, adventure, to what extent can we "let rules be rules?" - I spoke to Moritz Schularick about Germany and the question "What does new pragmatism look like?" in the context of the exhibition.