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[Exhibitions]

Räume – Espaces – Przestrzenie

Müge Bakır and Katharina Reinsbach, master students at the weißensee academy of art berlin, are showing a duo exhibition at Genshagen Castle that explores different artistic approaches to spaces and expands our view.

In her current series of paintings, Müge Bakır depicts gardens. Gardens form an environment controlled, arranged and remodelled by humans. They are a piece of land where nature has lost its wilderness to order. If we consider the garden in terms of its core spatial characteristics, it is firstly a defined, self-contained space, a microcosm of its own, in which opposites stand side by side, clash, intermingle, overlap and sometimes even conflict with one another. On the other hand, it is a place that interacts with its surroundings in many different ways. In the "Hedges" series, Müge Bakır focusses on Baroque gardens, whose principles lay in the perfection of form and the design of nature.

In the "Halbwissen" series, Katharina Reinsbach deals with fictionalised pictorial spaces based on small, printed sections of her own mobile phone photos. Her main interest lies in the relationship between drawing and the physical or historical space that she explores. She reflects on how images and pictorial spaces in general can function as a means of enabling viewers to establish relationships with unknown pictorial spaces or to place themselves mentally in them. For her, drawing is a tool for questioning collective perceptions of spaces and clarifying her own position within them. Her drawings always emerge from an interplay between her own observations of spatial conditions and an active fictional examination of experiences that are directly connected to the space.

Müge Bakır and Katharina Reinsbach are both master students in the painting department of the weißensee academy of art berlin. Together with the art academy, the Genshagen Foundation invited students to submit proposals for an exhibition at Genshagen Castle.

Web: https://www.stiftung-genshagen.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-2024/kuku/default-f86d8f71e8/

MA Art Therapy [College Events]

MA Art Therapy -Application-

Application for the start of the summer semester 2025, starting in April 2025.

You can apply via the online application portal until 15 September.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Lipp: 030 47705342

Information on the complete application process for the continuing education programme in art therapy can be found at:

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/studium/fachgebiete/ma-kunsttherapie/bewerbung.html

[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

[Exhibitions]

'Heute Nacht gehen wir nicht schlafen.'- We're not going to sleep tonight.

An artistic transformation by students of the weißensee
academy of art berlin, presented by Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V.

Exhibition: 19 July - 8 September 2024
Exhibition opening: 18 July 2024 | 7 pm
WILLY-BRANDT-HOUSE
Stresemannstr. 28

Participants: Cora Jarchow, Friederike Toeppe, Stella Severson, Anna Eigener, Sophia Henry Brown, Daria Pashchenko, Louie Blaser
Project management: Prof. Nader Ahriman und Nora Kapfer

The exhibition ‘Heute Nacht gehen wir nicht schlafen.’ is part of
a seminar at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and was developed together with Nader Ahriman's class. The exhibition by the six artists reflects on the manufacturing and transformation process of materials and products. The students imitated this process for their project by running their own artworks through a assembly line and subjecting the images to several transformations: they created a large collage, processed it manually, photographed it, digitally expanded it and printed it on large areas of fabric. From here, the final print could be curated again and further processed with analogue forms. The result can be seen at the Willy-Brandt-House from 19 July.

Web: Weitere Informationen www.fkwbh.de