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[Exhibitions]

“colonial-local – we’re lifting the lid”

The Oder-Spree Museum in Beeskow was founded in 1906 in order to showcase the history of the district Beeskow-Storkow. Today, however, the collection also contains exhibits from the north of Europe, the Pacific and Africa. Most of these non-local exhibits are from Namibia, formerly the colony German South-West Africa. And all of this throws up a lot of questions: How did these objects come to be in the Oder-Spree Museum in Beeskow? Do they constitute looted art? What do they have to do with big game hunting, the disappearance of Sorb place names, a missing explorer of Australia, the denazification process in a small town and the grocery shops in the local villages? And what should be our response if we discover objects like these in our collections? The Oder-Spree Museum is showing this collection of ethnological objects for the first time. The exhibition design by the Department of Visual Communication provides an overview of what could be learned up to now about the origin of these objects and what caused them to find their way to Beeskow. It also shows how global interdependencies can impact on local contexts. The exhibition will be opened on April 13, 2024 at 3 pm at Beeskow Castle. It arose as a cooperative venture between the Oder-Spree Museum, the Association of Museums in Brandenburg and the studio mut.und.anmut. of the weissensee school of at and design berlin.

Web: https://www.burg-beeskow.de/ausstellungen/sonderausstellungen/kolonialokal

[College Events]

Design competition Rundgang 2025

die weißensee kunsthochschule berlin schreibt das visuelle Konzept für den »Rundgang – Tage der offenen Tür 2025« aus. Wir laden alle Studierenden der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin herzlich ein, Ihre Ideen bis zum 24. Januar 2025 einzureichen. Der 1. Preis ist mit einem Preisgeld von 2.000 Euro dotiert und umfasst die gestalterische Umsetzung sämtlicher Werbemedien. Wir freuen uns über zahlreiche Einreichungen aus allen Fachgebieten.

Die Ausschreibung erreichen Sie über den Link unten

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Design competition Open Days Tour 2025


The weissensee school of art and design berlin is once again inviting students to create a visual concept for its “Open Days Tour 2025”. We warmly invite you to submit your ideas by 24th January 2025. The first prize consists of €2,000 and covers the work involved in implementing the design across all communication media.

You will find the invitation to tender after clicking the link below

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/hochschule/design-competition-rundgang-2025

[Events]

Ringvorlesung „seɘ – ander(e)s sehen“

In the lecture series ‘seɘ - ander(e)s sehen’, newly appointed professors present their work and research.

Prof. Dr. Judith Dobler, Visiting Professor for Performative Design Research in the Department of Theory and History
‘Records of a design researcher’
Wed., 11.12.2024, 17:00, auditorium of the weißensee academy of art berlin

Judith Dobler's research interest lies in the reciprocal transfer of current design processes and scientific working methods as they occur in studios and laboratories. In particular, she focusses on contemporary media and communication practices in scientific research. In the lecture, she presents an assemblage of methods from historical discourse analysis, visual and sensory anthropology as well as drawing research, with which she connects to theoretical and applied discourses. The resulting recordings complement her research as an artistic-experimental form of knowledge.
Judith Marlen Dobler is a designer and researcher and has been a visiting professor in the Department of Theory and History at the weißensee academy of art berlin and a member of the ‘Matters of Activity’ cluster of excellence since the winter semester. Her research interests include collaborative drawing as a medium of communication, design as experiential knowledge and design methods in post-disciplinary research. She has multiple qualifications as a carpenter, communication designer, design theorist and a PhD in media studies. As a member of several design research organisations (dgtf, DRS, cumulus), she is committed to academic equality, research ethics and inclusive design education.

Prof. Pauline Doutreluingne, Visiting Professor in the Department of Spatial Strategies
‘Parasitic swamplands as a spatial strategy’

Wed, 8.1.2025 17:00, auditorium of the weißensee academy of art berlin

How can we learn from more-than-human forms of existence and coexistence and explore swamps and parasites as forms of creation in art?
Normally we understand parasitic relationships as a binary distinction between two separate entities: Host and Parasite. How can we expand our conceptions and create artworks inspired by broader, non-binary, ecological and communal contexts in which host-parasite relationships survive and thrive? Parasitic Wetlands offers the opportunity to discuss themes of welcome and hospitality, symbiosis and mutualism, queer entanglements and adaptability, collective perspectives and looking at spatial strategies from a different perspective.
Prof. Pauline Doutreluingne heads the Master's programme in Spatial Strategies at the weißensee school of art and design berlin together with Prof. Bonaventure Ndikung. She also works as a curator and filmmaker and has been the artistic director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg since 2022. The exhibitions she has curated include ‘SWAMPING’, 2024-2025, (Kunstverein Arnsberg), ‘Speaking to Ancestors’, 2022-2023, (Spittelmarkt, Silent Green, Zwingli Kirche, Transmediale Studio, Grosse & Kleine Wasserspeicher Berlin), ‘Terrestrial Assemblage’, 2021, (Floating University Berlin), ‘A Handful of Dust’, 2020, (Ehrenhalle Lilienthalstraße Berlin), and ‘The Conundrum of Imagination’, 2017, (Leopold Museum, Vienna). Her films (in collaboration with the artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan) have been shown worldwide, most recently: ZKM Karlsruhe, Transmediale Linz, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Goethe Institut Stockholm and Goethe Institut Luanda.

Prof. Carolin Losch, Visiting Professor in the Department of Stage and Costume Design
‘See for yourself! Trends in contemporary theatre’
Wed., 15.1.2025 17:00, auditorium of the weißensee academy of art berlin

A return to material from ancient Greece can currently be observed on German-speaking stages. Is the Oedipus myth, for example, suitable for explaining the blindness of modern societies in the face of darkening future scenarios? What is the status quo of tragedy today? And how can different life experiences in the internationalisation of theatre be captured in shared stories?
Carolin Losch is a visiting professor in the Department of Stage and Costume Design at the weißensee academy of art berlin. She studied Theatre Studies, German and Romance Studies at the Free University of Berlin. She has worked as a dramaturge at the Schauspielhaus Bochum, the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, the Lucerne Theatre, the Nationaltheater Mannheim and the Staatstheater Stuttgart.