Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society

The Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society cultivates communities of inquiry at the University of Chicago. Our faculty-led research projects bring together scholars and practitioners whose collaboration is required to address complex human challenges. Our Visiting Fellows program brings the best minds from around the world for collaboration, animating the intellectual and creative environment on campus. Our gallery presents art exhibitions in the context of academic research, and our public events invite broad engagement with the scholarly inquiries we support. The aim of these activities is to deepen knowledge about the world and our place in it.

Curated by Dieter Roelstraete since 2017, the Neubauer Collegium gallery provides space for scholars, artists, practitioners, and the public to engage with the arts as a form of knowledge. Some Neubauer Collegium exhibitions complement or emerge from research projects supported by the Neubauer Collegium; others combine concerns common to multiple projects; and still others offer a singular vision and voice that resonates with the mission of the Neubauer Collegium. By presenting historical and contemporary art in the context of the interdisciplinary research we facilitate, the Neubauer Collegium explores the ways that thought and creative expression respond to and shape each other.