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Dear readers
Our preparations for our “Open Day Tours” are well under way. On 20 and 21 July 2024 we are once again opening our studios, workshops and laboratories from midday to 8 pm. Come and celebrate the end of the academic year with us. You can look forward to a festival with exhibitions in more than 40 rooms, and with music, performances, films, lectures, guided tours and culinary offers.
The first of the end-of-year presentations is being made on 11 July by the Department of Fashion Design with its fashion show “seefashion 24” in front of the Museum of Decorative Arts [Kunstgewerbemuseum]. On 18 July, the 39 master and graduating students in painting and sculpture invite you to the opening of the exhibition “Nothing is impossible” and transform the old barracks on the Dragonerareal into a lively space for reflection on the present. And at 6 pm on 19 July, the evening before the start of the “Open Day Tours”, the graduates in visual communication are opening their end-of-course exhibition in the project rooms feldfünf, not far from the Jewish Museum.
In this newsletter you can read about all the other things in store for you this summer and during the “Open Day Tours”. We hope that you will experience many inspiring encounters – at the university, in the Kunsthalle at Hamburger Platz, in the Concordia, in the project rooms feldfünf and in all the other places where the weissensee school of art and design berlin will be present in July.
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Annual exhibition “Rundgang”Students from the departments of sculpture, stage and costume design, painting, fashion design, product design, textile and material design, visual communication, foundation studies in art + design and spatial strategies will be presenting their pioneering projects and end-of-semester assignments of the academic year 2023-24. The art and design university, the neighbouring Concordia, the Kunsthalle at Hamburger Platz and the project rooms feldfünf in Kreuzberg will all be opening their doors to the public from midday through to 8 pm on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2024. In addition to their exhibitions, the artists and designers are putting on a varied programme with performances, live demonstrations, talks and guided tours. Read more
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Graduate Fashion Show "seefashion24“ The Department of Fashion Design at the weissensee school of art and design berlin is presenting the collections of 14 bachelor and master’s graduates from the winter semester 2023/24 and the summer semester 2024. This work reflects the graduates’ individual view of the importance and the design of fashion in today’s times. A wide variety of approaches are evident in these designs – from conceptual and analytical design to free, form-related experimentation that takes social, ecological and historical aspects into consideration. “seefashion24” is taking place in collaboration with the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum in Berlin at 8 pm on Thursday 11 July 2024. It is necessary to register in advance. Registration link
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“Nothing is impossible” – Exhibition of end-of-course assignments in Fine Arts
In the StadtWERKSTATT in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, which is located in the designated redevelopment site Dragonerareal/Rathausblock, master pupils and graduating students from the departments of painting and sculpture will be displaying their work from 18 to 21 July 2024. Built in the 19th century as a barracks, the Dragonerareal serves as an illustration of some important events and developments in the city’s history. The arms industry, forced labour, controversial property deals, but also neighbourhood activism for housing and open spaces are all part of this site’s turbulent history. In view of the site’s past, the advertising slogan “Nothing is impossible”, which has been borrowed from a car manufacturer, might seem to be sarcastic. However, for the 39 young artists, the title of the exhibition conveys both truth and hope. In paintings, drawings, photography, videos, sculptures, textiles and installations, they give expression to their perception of our uncertain present. And if a army barracks can be turned into an art forum, then perhaps it really is true that everything is possible. The exhibition opens at 6 pm on 18 July and stays open on each day until 10 pm.
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Further exhibitions, performances and lectures
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"FRICTION“
How can we learn from other forms of existence and cohabitation, and explore parasitic forms of creation? How can we broaden our ideas and create works of art in which host-parasite relationships survive and thrive? The interactive exhibition of the Department of Spatial Strategies shows works of art and performances that take up these extended notions of host-parasite relationships and open up fresh perspectives on how organisms live together in our environment. The exhibition came about in the course of the seminar (PARA)SITES under the guidance of Prof. Pauline Doutreluinge and can be seen at the Floating University from 6 pm to 11 pm on 2 July 2024.
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"In Focus“
To conclude the “In Focus” series, the Department of Stage and Costume Design has invited Wolfgang Menardi to give a lecture at the weissensee school of art and design at 5.30 pm on 4 July 2024. Wolfgang Menardi studied acting at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich and worked as an actor in numerous renowned theatres. In 2005, he began to study architecture at the Berlin University of the Arts at the same time as working as an actor. This led to him creating stage and costume designs from 2007 onwards for municipal and state theatres in France and Germany in parallel to his acting work. He was nominated by the professional journal Theater heute as the best emerging artist and stage designer and he was nominated for the Faust Prize for “Genesis”, directed by Yael Ronen.
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“Tonight we’re not going to bed”
In the exhibition “Tonight we’re not going to bed”, eight students of painting reflect on the process of manufacturing and transforming materials and products. To this end, they subjected their own works of art to several transformations. They created a collage, did further work on it manually, took photographs of it, enlarged and enhanced it digitally and then printed it in large format on lengths of material. The large-scale collage that emerged from this process, under the guidance of Prof. Nader Ahriman, reflects the particular nature of this collaborative piece of work. The result can be seen from 19 July to 8 September in the Willi-Brandt-Haus e.V. (registered association). The exhibition opens at 8 pm on 18 July. This exhibition is in cooperation with the league of friends of the Willy-Brand-Haus e.V.
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"Visiting Material Futures"
What material futures can we imagine if we speculate collaboratively?
Until the end of August 2024, the pop-up exhibition "Visiting Material Futures" at the museum Futurium explores this question with contributions from researchers from the Cluster "Matters of Activity" in collaboration with designers, students and researchers from weissensee school for art and design berlin, as well as participants in a workshop series that took place at the museum over the past few months. Through the method of joint speculation and design, the exhibition draws on knowledge not only from research, but also experience and everyday life, and invites us to step into a co-creative exchange about what material futures seem possible to us today.
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