What Does Justice Look Like?

At the conclusion of the opening session for the symposium in November 2025, a central question emerged: what does justice look like? To continue this critical inquiry, this event, organised in partnership with the ECCHR, invites artists and audiences to reflect on how photographs not only depict potential realities but also actively shape perceptions of power, history, and human value.

The event further examines who can create impactful images with what kind of legitimacy and how justice operates within visual and political contexts. It also considers how audiences respond to images that claim space and justice for marginalised groups, whether justice can be encapsulated in a single frame, or whether it is something that is continually negotiated – and shaped by the image-maker’s agency and urgency.

This event was organised In collaboration with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), an organisation dedicated to enforcing political, social, and economic human rights and litigates cases on behalf of collectives all over the world. Founded in 2007 by Wolfgang Kaleck and other international human rights lawyers, it uses legal means to initiate legal and political interventions.

Wolfgang Kaleck has served as secretary general of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin since 2008. He is the author of several books, including Concrete Utopia: Looking Back into the Future of Human Rights (2024) and Law versus Power (2018), and, more recently, Die Stärke des Rechts vs. Das Recht des Stärkeren – The Power of the Law vs. The Law of the Powerful (2026). Kaleck, who has received numerous awards (including the Hermann Kesten Prize from the PEN Centre Germany), has been working on numerous projects with the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Magnum Foundation, Autograph ABP, and other cultural institutions for years.

Jasmina Cibic is a Slovenian artist working across film, installation, photography, and sculpture. She represented Slovenia at the 55th Venice Biennale and has presented solo exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, macLyon, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, CCA Glasgow, and Kunstmuseum Krefeld. Her work has also been included in group exhibitions at venues such as MoMA New York, MAXXI Rome, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Yazid Anani is the chief curator of the Hayy Jameel Centre for Art and Creativity in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. From 2016 to 2024, he served as chief curator and programme director at the AM Qattan Foundation in Ramallah. His curatorial practice spans architectural discourse, visual culture and social research.

Moderation: Siri Keil

Ticket information: Admission to this event is free of charge.