Through exhibitions, lectures, readings, comic debates, guided tours, and workshops, the medium of comics and cartoons is explored and showcased—always with the goal of increasing recognition of and awareness about comics as an art form in their own right through exhibitions and programs.
One of the most widely used forms of communication today involves the simultaneous reception of visual and textual information: comics laid the foundation for this at the end of the 19th century.
The schauraum: comic + cartoon is a project of the Dortmund Cultural Institutions in close collaboration with uzwei at the Dortmunder U (program) and the City and State Library (library and editorial department).


