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Dear readers
The preparations for our “Open Day Tours” are in full swing. We are looking forward to welcoming large numbers of visitors. Indeed, this year we are inviting you to celebrate with us on four days.
The graduating students in Fine Arts are responsible for the kick-off event on 20 July with the opening of their exhibition “Tumult” in the Alte Münze. The programme of events continues on Friday, 21 July with the fashion show “seefashion23”, in which the Department of Fashion Design is presenting 20 end-of-course bachelor’s and master’s collections from the years 2022 and 2023 in the Culterim Gallery Gesundbrunnen. Finally, on 22 and 23 July, the studios, workshops and laboratories of our university will be transformed into a single, huge exhibition space. So, with music, performances, live demonstrations, dialogue, guided tours and culinary creations, Bühringstraße 20 in Weißensee will be turned into an event space and experience arena.
In our newsletter below, you can read about all the other things in store for you on our Open Days and during the summer. We hope to have many inspiring encounters – in the university, in the Kunsthalle at Hamburger Platz, in the Concordia (next to the university), in the project spaces feldfünf (in the Metropolenhaus near the Jewish Museum) and all the other locations where the weissensee school of art and design berlin will be present in July.
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Annual exhibition
Rundgang – Open Day Tours
22 July and 23 July between 12 pm and 8 pm, weissensee school of art and design berlin
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Students from the Departments of Sculpture, Stage and Costume Design, Painting, Fashion Design, Product Design, Textile and Surface Design, Visual Communication, Foundation Studies in Art + Design, and Spatial Strategies will present their pioneering projects and end-of-course assignments from the academic year 2022-23. The school of art and design, the neighbouring Concordia, the Kunsthalle at Hamburger Platz and the project spaces feldfünf in Kreuzberg will all be opening their doors to the public from midday through to 8 pm on Saturday 22 July and on Sunday 23 July 2023. In addition to the exhibitions, the artists and designers will offer a wide-ranging programme consisting of performances, live demonstrations, dialogue and guided tours.
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TUMULT
End-of-course exhibition of fine arts
In the Alte Münze (Mitte), 46 master class students and graduating students from the Departments of Painting and Sculpture will be showing their end-of-course assignments in the exhibition “Tumult”. A programme of events including concerts, performances and guided tours will complement the wide variety of artistic approaches and media that are on display here. These range from painting, drawing, photography, videos, performances, sculpture and textiles to multimedia installations. With the title of the exhibition, the graduating students intend a reference to their study of Fine Art, which, with its phases of chaos and unease, is, they argue, sometimes tumultuous in nature but is helpful overall in enabling each student to find their own artistic path.The exhibition opens on 20 July 2023 at 6 pm. It can be visited daily from 21 to 23 July between midday and 8 pm.
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Katja Petrowskaja: "The photo looked at me”"
In 2022, Katja Petrowskaja’s volume of articles “The photo looked at me” was published. The Ukrainian writer will be reading from her work in the assembly hall of the weissensee school of art and design at 5 pm on 5 July 2023 and, together with the art historian Paul Mellenthin, will be discussing the question of the role which pictures of the past still play in the present time. The approximately 60 texts, which originally appeared in the arts and culture section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, are about encounters with pictures on the internet, at flea markets, in family albums, newspapers, books, galleries and museums, and also about encounters with pictures which the writer recalls from her past.
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glass – hand formed matter
The international project “glass – hand-formed matter”, which was initiated by the weissensee school of art and design berlin and is supported by universities, glassworks and cultural institutions in Germany, Finland and Sweden, is celebrating its completion after three successful years. From 6 to 9 July, glassmakers, artists and designers will be meeting in the Baruth Glassworks Museum to work experimentally with glass and to discuss the future of manual glassmaking. Moreover, guided tours of the exhibition “water and wine”, live demonstrations and further events on the programme will provide the public once more with insights into the work processes and outcomes of the project.
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How is a pencil or a sketchbook made out of recycled material? With what techniques can humour be introduced into art? How is a printing plate created? And how is it possible to capture the body as an expression of the soul in a drawing? The weissensee school of art and design berlin is continuing its successful cooperation with boesner in Berlin, and, as part of its Summer Academy, is offering five workshops in August and September, which provide fascinating insights into experimental, artistic work. Young designers and artists who have studied at the weissensee school of art and design berlin will share not only familiar but also new and unusual techniques and will provide ideas for dealing creatively with materials.
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Federal German Award for art students
Michael Fink, a student from the Department of Painting at the weissensee school of art and design berlin, has received an award in the 26th competition ‘Federal German Award for art students’. The prize money of EUR 30,000 and a production grant of EUR 18,000 will be shared by the winners: a student team from Leipzig and five individual art students from five different art schools. Their works can be seen from 26 October 2023 in the Bundeskunsthalle (Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany) in Bonn. The jury explains its reasons for Michael Fink’s award as follows: “Changes of perspective and the permeability of arenas of experience in which the boundaries between humans and animals, plants and cell structures, and between natural and artificial intelligence (AI) dissolve, are the focus of Michael Fink’s idiosyncratic artistic exploration of images (…) With his journeys of discovery into new visual imagery, he invites us to re-discover affinities beyond human family bonds.”
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German Innovation Award 2023
Xinyue Yang, a graduate from the Department for Product Design and a stipendiary of the DesignFarm Berlin, has received the German Innovation Award 2023 for her speech-to-animation app ‘Word to World’. The designer says of her creation ‘Word to World’, “It is a product that focuses on early childhood education and creativity in the form of language-to-animation interaction. It enables children to explore the world through the language-based telling of stories. By using our gamified system to convert real-time language into visual worlds, we are opening up a new era of storytelling and the next level of interactive experience in early years education.”
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Credits: Rundgangsgrafik: Stavros Gialamidis; Foto Rundgang: Franziska Libuda; Bild zur Ausstellung Tumult: Franziska Belen Resnikowski 2022. Foto: Belen Resnikowski; Foto Katja Petrowskaja: Gunter Glücklich/Suhrkamp Verlag; glass - hand formed matter, Foto: Barbara Schmidt; Open Art Academy: Bild: Ingrid Wenzel; Bundespreis für Kunststudierende: Michael Fink, Giant Moving, Acryl auf Leinwand; Innovation Award für "Word to Word": Capybara Technologies GmbH.
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