Science • Art • Society

Events & Festivals

Tania Singer loves to curate interdisciplinary events that bring together art, culture, science, and society. She creates innovative realms of experience by combining lectures, seminars, performances, music and exhibitions.

“I am passionate about creating experiential spaces at the crossroads of art, science and society.”

Panels • Talks • Workshops • Concerts • Exhibitions

Upcoming Projects

Past Examples

Art-Science Collaborations

Tania has been fascinated by art and culture since she was a kid. When young she worked as an assistant director in various opera houses and theaters. Laster, as a researcher, she often participated in artistic and scientific collaborations and events. For instance, she has worked on several projects over the years with the world-famous Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. This collaboration started in 2011 with an interdisciplinary workshop in his Berlin studio on How to Train Compassion, which resulted in a documentary and a 900-page e-book. In 2016, Olafur created a solar light installation as part of Tania’s Power & Care conference (2016) in Brussels, Belgium.

Examples from the collaboration with Olafur Eliasson

Raising Compassion – Tómas Gislason (2011)

Power & Care Light Sphere (Brussels, 2016)

Free E-Book Compassion. Bridging Practice and Science (2013)

Catalogue of the exhibition “In Real Life” by Olafur Eliasson (Tate Modern, 2019)

With the Dalai Lama

Mind and Life Conferences

Tania Singer has organized various Mind and Life Institute events for many years – from summer schools on the beautiful Fraueninsel in the Chiemsee lake in Bavaria to large international conferences with several thousand participants, including the Dalai Lama and many international speakers.

The two largest conferences she curated were Altruism and Compassion in Economic Systems in Zurich in 2010 and Power & Care in Brussels in 2016.

More information can be found under the contemplative science subpage.

Altruismus in Economic Systems (Zurich, 2010)

Power & Care (Brussels, 2016)

Power and Care

Caring Economics

Operas • Museums • Studios • Festival halls

Impressions from Previous Events