Dear readers
Studying and interacting online during the last three semesters came with enormous challenges for many members of our university community. So, the fact that the students produced excellent artistic work in this difficult time – work that is being recognised with various prizes, scholarships, awards and invitations – deserves our respect.
This year, the DAAD Prize 2021 was awarded to Ahmad Alhamidi for his outstanding artistic work in the field of painting and for his social engagement in Germany and Syria. Moreover, at the official opening of the academic year, Frederik Unruh, a student of sculpture, was awarded the Lucia Loeser stipend. And 15 students from all subject areas were presented with official confirmation of their Deutschlandstipendium.
The *foundationClass*collective has received an invitation to documenta fifteen. This group of artists grew out of the *foundationClass, which, as an educational platform, aims to make it easier for people who have migrated to Germany and are affected by racism to gain access to art schools. Whilst learning about and researching the question of what a collective could be, the *foundationClass*collective is active in combatting isolation in the world of art that is caused by mechanisms of exclusion.
There have also been successes in our research laboratories. The DXM research project ADAPTEX is one of the six projects that have been shortlisted from 220 entries for the internationally renowned Zumtobel Group Award “Special Prize for Innovation”. ADAPTEX develops adaptive, textile sun protection solutions with intelligent memory materials for architectural facades.
We would like to congratulate all those involved on their success. Below you can find information about exhibitions and events in November. You can also follow us on Instagram and Facebook, where you will find up-do-date information about what is currently being discussed and exhibited in our university. We look forward to your visit.
Your weissensee school of art berlin
Exhibition
Friederike Feldmann / Max Beckmann – NACHTGEDANKEN
5th November 2021 to 9th January 2022, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Friederike Feldmann is a professor of painting at the weissensee school of art and design berlin. Her murals fill the room and charge their surroundings both sensually and emotionally. Yet, at the same time, her characteristic style of painting has the effect of being transient and elusive. For the exhibition “Friederike Feldmann / Max Beckmann – NACHTGEDANKEN” [Night thoughts] in the Pinakothek der Moderne, the artist creates a pictorial matrix that integrates selected art works of Beckmann into her installation and confers on them a life of their own. Her matrix also enters into a dialogue with the works of this important artist of the modern era.
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Exhibition
DEAR READER
Open until 10th December 2021, Kunstbibliothek Berlin, foyer
The exhibition DEAR READER shows in the glass display cabinets of the Kunstbibliothek 12 works that in very different ways transfer historical book art into contemporary painting, print, typography, video and sculpture. The title of the exhibition DEAR READER directly addresses the observer – and invites him/her to read the art works on display.
The idea for this exhibition came out of a collaboration between the Collection of Book Art and Media Art (Dr. Michael Lailach) and the weissensee school of art and design berlin (Dirk Peuker). In DEAR READER, the work of students is displayed on an equal footing with the works of visual artists whose works deal with book art, artists’ books and language.
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Annual conference of the “Matters of Activity” cluster
Tipping Points: Plastic, Contingent and Unstable Matters
16th and 17th November 2021, online
The excellence cluster “Matters of Activity”, in which the weissensee school of art and design berlin is also involved, would like to create the foundation for a new culture of materials. Researchers from 40 disciplines are investigating how pictures, space and materials develop as active building forms to create a new symbolic and physical reality in which nature and culture intertwine in new ways. At the conference, ongoing cluster projects will be presented in 13 lectures and virtual guided tours of laboratories, and new, interdisciplinary and methodological approaches beyond an ecological “point of no return” will be explored. In all of this, the main focus is matter in motion, i.e. transition and contingency, processes of acquiring and losing form and the creative potential of the incomplete and indeterminate. Speakers will include Thomas Ness, Hanna Wiesener, Mareike Stoll and Christiane Sauer.
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Symposium of the "Textile Prototyping Lab"
Transitions, transfers and co-creation in the field of textiles and beyond
18th November 2021, online
What are the new possibilities created by the synergy between textile and electronics research, design and business? How can we reshape the research and industry landscape to make it more dynamic and sustainable? And is open innovation a successful and practically applicable model for the future – even beyond the field of textiles? The research project Textile Prototyping deals with these questions in an online symposium. Based at the weissensee school of art and design berlin in the research department DXM (Design and Experimental Materials Research), which is headed by Professor Zane Berzina, the Textile Prototyping Lab, which was founded by five organisations from the fields of textile and electronics research, design and business, sees itself as an open, agile and interdisciplinary place for textile prototyping with a focus on high-tech textiles and the core themes of open innovation, knowledge transfer and co-creation. To request one of our limited supply of cost-free tickets, please contact at: info@tpl.berlin.
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