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[Events]

Lecture series: IM FOKUS

13.06.24 Director and stage designer Ulrich Rasche
20.06.24 Stage designer Annette Kurz

For the second semester in a row, the Department of Stage and Costume Design invites you to the lecture series ‘IM FOKUS’. Outstanding stage and costume designers from the fields of film and theatre present their work and working methods and engage in discussion with students and interested parties from all departments. Excerpts and examples from their productions and project-specific research approaches and processes provide unique insights into the working and thinking approaches of sought-after artists behind the stage and/or camera.

After an inspiring start to the summer semester with stage and costume designer Christian Schmidt, we are delighted to announce two further lectures in June. On 13 June, renowned director and stage designer Ulrich Rasche will be our guest, followed by multi-award-winning stage designer Annette Kurz on 20 June.

Ulrich Rasche, born in Bochum in 1969, studied art history and comparative literature. His choral project 'Singing! Immateriell arbeiten', which premiered at the Palast der Republik in Berlin in 2004, he achieved national fame as a director. This was followed by productions at the Staatstheater Stuttgart, the Wiener Festwochen, the Volksbühne Berlin, the Schauspiel Frankfurt and the Sophiensæle Berlin. In 2011, he dramatised and directed Heinrich von Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas at Theater Bonn. In 2013, Ulrich Rasche was honoured with the Art Prize of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. In 2014, he co-produced 'The Cosmic Octave' by Nis-Momme Stockmann (Sophiensæle Berlin). Further works followed, including 'Danton's Death' by Georg Büchner (2015, Schauspiel Frankfurt), 'The Robbers' by Friedrich Schiller (2016, Residenztheater Munich, invitation to the 2017 Berlin Theatertreffen), 'Woyzeck' by Georg Büchner (2017, Theater Basel, invitation to the 2018 Berlin Theatertreffen), 'Das große Heft' (2018, Staatsschauspiel Dresden, invitation to the 2019 Berlin Theatre Meeting), The Persians by Aeschylus (2018, Salzburg Festival), 'Elektra' by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (2019, Residenztheater Munich), 'The Bacchae' by Euripides (2019, Burgtheater Vienna), '4. 48 Psychosis' by Sarah Kane (2020, Deutsches Theater Berlin) and 'Leonce and Lena' by Georg Büchner (2023, Deutsches Theater Berlin). At the Residenztheater, he also staged 'The Earthquake in Chili' (2020) by Heinrich von Kleist and 'Woyzeck' (2020) by Georg Büchner. In 2022, he directed 'Agamemnon' by Aeschylus, a co-production of the Residenztheater and the Athens Epidaurus Festival, which premiered in the ancient theatre in Epidaurus. With his production of Nathan the Wise (2023, Salzburg Festival), Ulrich Rasche was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen 2024.

Annette Kurz studied Fine Arts and Art History in Paris (Ecole du Louvre). After graduating in Fine Arts (Université Paris VIII), she attended the École Supérieure d'Art Dramatique du Théâtre National de Strasbourg (TNS) and graduated with the Diplôme de Scénographie. After France, Hamburg was the starting point for her international career: she worked there as an assistant set designer for Anna Viebrock at the Hamburg Schauspielhaus and later spent ten years (2009 - 2019) as head of set design at the Thalia Theatre in Hamburg. Since 2022, she has been the first ever visual artist to be artist in residence at Ensemble Resonanz in Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, working with sculpture, painting, performance and staging in collaboration with the orchestra. She is in demand internationally as a freelance stage designer and scenographer. Her work is decisively characterised by her intensive and long-standing collaboration with the director Luk Perceval, for whose theatre and opera productions Kurz has been designing highly complex, open symbolic spaces since 2001, which mostly emerge from the elementary basic space and the cultural and visual history of her sculptural stage elements (‘scenic objects’). Her theatre and opera works with Luk Perceval and others have been presented at the Thalia Theater Hamburg, the Berliner Ensemble, the Schaubühne Berlin, the Münchner Kammerspiele, the Salzburg Festival, the Zurich Opera, the Basel Opera and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as well as at festivals in Edinburgh, Avignon, Paris, Prague and Vienna. They have been awarded the German theatre prize DER FAUST-best stage design, stage design of the year in the TheaterderZeit critics' survey, the Hamburg theatre prize ROLF MARES-best stage design, the Norwegian theatre prize HEDDA nomination for best stage design and many more.
The Akademie der Künste Berlin will set up an Annette Kurz archive of her work in the Archive for the Performing Arts. Annette Kurz has taught scenography at various universities in Germany and abroad.
Currently on show in Berlin : ‘ Exil’ , directed by Luk Perceval , Berliner Ensemble
Currently to be seen in Hamburg : ‘Wolf unter Wölfen’ directed by Luk Perceval, Thalia Theatre


Further lectures this semester:
04.07. Wolfgang Menardi

[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]

Info days / Tour / Portfolio consultations

Study orientation week in Berlin: 10-14 June 2024

The weißensee academy of art would also like to give interested parties an insight into everyday life as a student, present our range of degree programmes and give them a taste of the subject areas and workshops.
Everyone is welcome to simply drop by without registering!

OUR PROGRAMME (will be expanded and updated here daily):
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BA-PRODUCT-DESIGN:
June 10, MONDAY 14:00hrs
Meeting point: main entrance
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BA-FASHION-DESIGN:
Guided tour of the department by students 
Tuesday: 11 June at 10 a.m.
Meeting point: main entrance
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STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN:
Guided tour of the department by students
followed by a lecture by Ulrich Rasche from the ‘In Focus’ series with outstanding stage and costume designers
Thursday: 13 June at 4 pm
Meeting point: main entrance
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TEXTILE AND MATERIAL DESIGN:
Offering a short guided tour of the department
Meeting point: main entrance/
Monday 10 June at 10:30 a.m.
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LECTURE/ THEORY and HISTORY: 
Avant-garde(s) - Art in the 20th century
Tuesday, 11 June 14-16 in lecture theatre C1.05, Prof. Jörg Petruschat
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LECTURE/ THEORY and HISTORY: 
Ad)dressing Memories. Clothing and/or cultural memory - fashion theory/fashion sociology 
Thursday 13.6. 10:00 -11:30 in lecture theatre C 1.05, Prof.in Antonella Giannone
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LECTURE/ THEORY and HISTORY:
Art Nouveau / Costume Studies
Tuesday 11.6. 11:45 in lecture theatre C 1.05, Prof. Beatrice Szameitat
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GENERAL STUDY COUNSELLING
Susan Lipp
Individual counselling on
Tuesday 2 - 5 pm and on Thursday 10 am - 12 pm 
Location: Room A 1.03

OPEN Q&A SESSION
followed by a guided tour with Susan
Painting, Sculpture, Vis. Communication
Thursday: 13 June from 12 noon
Location: Aula

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Information on the other departments will follow soon.

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/studium/studienbewerbung/studienorientierung-fachberatung

BA/MA Fashion Design [Exhibitions]

Tactile conditions

19. - 20. März 2024
backhausprojects

Clothing brings our inner state to the outside world and puts us in a wide variety of states. In this interactive exhibition, five students from the Fashion Design department want to explore this relationship between people and clothing. Unlike most art and fashion exhibitions, the experience of the artwork is created through the interaction of visitors with the work, in that the clothing can be touched and put on. The garments deal with different emotional states that can unfold in interaction with the visitors.


Vernissage: Tuesday, 19.03.24, 17:00-22:00,
19:30 Performance Ayuko Kiyota, Mona Masuyama

20.03.24, 11:00-20:00


Eva Dobler
Anna Honegger
Jule Kautt
Mona Masuyama
Alexis Thelen
Phila Weber

[Events]

Radiant Opacity

As part of the master’s course “Spatial Strategies”, 22 students, under the direction of Lerato Shadi, will be presenting their work in the Kunsthalle at Hamburger Platz. The exhibition explores the boundaries of the visible in our present world. A lack of transparency fires the imagination and opens up conceptual spaces – even beyond the actual physical world. To this extent, imagination can be deployed as a political and personal means of transcending the self and of making what is authentic visible. The exhibition opens on 22 February (6 pm to 10 pm) and can be visited between 2 pm and 7 pm on 23 and 24 February.

[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/

[College Events]

Design competition Open Days Tour 2024 Ideas for a visual concept

To the students in all departments: The weissensee school of art and design berlin invites you to take part in a design competition to create a visual concept for its “Open Days Tour 2024”.

TASK
To create a visual concept for the “Open Days Tour 2024” that can be applied to a wide range of communication media. The design should represent the university and entice visitors to seek out the exhibitions by the various departments.

The submission should consist of:

A creative idea that, with the support of tutors, can be applied to the following communication media:
social media (a campaign)
— poster
— flyer
— fixed image or trailer for the U-Bahn advertising medium Berliner Fenster and for culture screens in cultural facilities
— invitation cards and mailings

This advertising is directed at a broad target group, including people who are not familiar with the purpose and activities of the weissensee school of art and design berlin and who have never heard of its Open Days Tour.

APPLICATION
Please submit a PDF with sketches outlining your visual concept for the various communication media, with a poster design and a short text describing the intention behind your concept.

The poster should contain the following information:

Open Days Tour
20 and 21 July 2024
weissensee school of art and design berlin
Bühringstraße 20
13086 Berlin
kh-berlin.de
the logo of the school of art and design
(You are also welcome to work with a slogan)

Please limit the PDF to no more than four pages.
Please include the following information at the top of the PDF: date, name, department, no. of semesters, email address and telephone number.

LINK FOR SUBMITTING YOUR ENTRY
Please submit your entry via the following link and use the precise file name format: surname_first name_application.pdf

https://next.kh-berlin.de/s/FsipLSqnCDj4wZN


SUBMISSION DEADLINE
18 February 2024

The competition winner will be announced at the end of February. The decision on the award will be taken by a jury consisting of representatives from the Department of Visual Communication, the executive board of the university and the public relations office.

The detailed work on the design has to be completed by 17 April 2024. Then the design will be transferred into the required formats.

PRIZE MONEY FOR COMPETITION WINNER
€1,000

CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
Prize money: The winner shall be deemed to have been remunerated for the design for all the required media, the supervision of production work and the rights of exploitation. The winner will receive support from tutors in transferring the design concept to all digital media.

Participation in the competition requires that you are registered at the weissensee school of art and design berlin up to and including the summer semester 2024.

For enquiries, please contact: Veronika Breuning, Public Relations Officer, tel. 030 47705 222, presse@kh-berlin.de

[Exhibitions]

Coding IxD/Expanding:THE BODY

Venue:
Weizenbaum Institute (Hardenbergstraße 32, 10623 Berlin)

Opening:
14.02.2024, 18:00

Exhibition period:
15.02. to 20.02.2024, 14:00 to 18:00 (closed on weekends)

Digital technologies such as apps and wearables that continuously record our body data permeate our daily lives - but usually forget the uniqueness and diversity of the human body. In the semester project "Expanding:THE BODY", students of computer science (Freie Universität Berlin) and product design at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin are exploring innovative solutions for different groups and individuals. They are exploring the question of what data and information the body provides and how the handling of one's own body data can be materialised in objects and interactions. The results can be seen at the Weizenbaum Institute from 14 February 2024. Coding IxD is being organised in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "Matters of Activity. Image Material Space".

Weizenbaum Institute:

Web: https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de

[Exhibitions]

Pigeon in the Organ

Galiläa Kirche, Rigaer Str. 8, 10245 Berlin
8. Feb – 11. Feb 2024, täglich 12-18Uhr
*Vernissage Mittwoch 7. Feb 19-22 Uhr
*Finissage Samstag 10. Feb 19-22Uhr
*7.2 & *10.2 „Activation Ceremony“, Performance um 20 Uhr

Studierende der Bildhauerei aus dem Seminar der Gastprofessor_innen Mariechen Danz und Andrea Huyoff laden ein zu "Pigeon in the Organ", einer Ausstellung in der Galiläa Kirche Friedrichshain. Die Ausstellung präsentiert bestehende als auch neue ortsspezifische Werke sowie eine Reihe an Performances, die mit Interventionen, Stimme und Gesten die Werke "aktivierten“. Für die denkmalgeschützte evangelische Kirche beginnt unter der Leitung von Marc Weiser ein neuer Abschnitt als kultureller Ort. Eröffnet wird das Programm in Zusammenarbeit mit Prof. Wilhelm Klotzek, der seit 2023 an der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin als Professor in der Bildhauerei lehrt.

[Events]

Vortrag: Congossa as Methodology

Pedagogy in an Age of Disenfranchisement.

Vortrag von Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung „see – ander(e)s sehen“ geben Professor_innen Einblicke in ihre Forschung und künstlerische Arbeit. Prof. Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung lehrt an der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin im Masterstudiengang Raumstrategien. Er ist Kurator, Autor, Biotechnologe und seit 2023 Intendant und Chefkurator des Hauses der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (HKW).

Er ist Gründer und war Künstlerischer Leiter von SAVVY Contemporary Berlin, 2009–22; Künstlerischer Leiter von sonsbeek 20->24, Arnhem, 2020–22; Künstlerischer Leiter der 14. Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, 2022; Kurator des finnischen Pavillons auf der 58. Biennale von Venedig, 2019; Gastkurator der Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, 2018; und Curator at Large der documenta 14 in Athen und Kassel, 2017.

In seinem Vortrag spricht er über das Congossa, einen hierarchiefreien Lernraum, der den Austausch von Wissen in den Mittelpunkt stellt und der sich in einem gemeinschaftlich gestalteten Prozess des Geschichtenerzählens entwickelt. Der Vortrag findet am 31.01.24 um 17 Uhr in der Aula der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin statt.

[Events]

Vortrag von Isabelle Graw

"Wilkommen im Resort"
Acht Thesen zum neuerlichen Strukturwandel der Kunstökonomie und malerischen Strategien

Isabelle Graw (geb. 1962 in Hamburg; lebt in Berlin) ist Herausgeberin der Zeitschrift Texte zur Kunst. Seit 2002 lehrt sie als Professorin an der Staatlichen Hochschule für bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

[College Events]

Ausschreibung Förderprogramm: EXIST-Women

Ausschreibung von seekicks

EXIST-Women ist ein 12-monatigen Qualifizierungsprogramm gefördert durch das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz zugeschnitten für angehende Gründerinnen. Die Förderung richtet sich an: Studentinnen, Mitarbeiterinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Frauen mit Berufsausbildung und Bezug zur Hochschule.

Interessentinnen können sich jetzt bis einschließlich 31. Januar 2024 bei seekicks bewerben.
Was seekicks bietet:

- 6-monatiges Programm in Verbindung mit seekicks-Workshops
- Mindestens 2 gründungsspezifische Aktivitäten (z.B. Matching, Finanzierung) und Unterstützung bei weiteren Förderungsanträgen (z.B. EXIST-Gründungsstipendium)
- Möglichkeit zur Vernetzung mit anderen Gründerinnen aus dem EXIST-Women-Netzwerk und mehr
- Der Förderzeitraum beträgt 3 Monate. Das Stipendium läuft bei uns vom 01.04.-30.06.2024. Absolventinnen erhalten 2500 €/ Studentinnen 1000 €; Sachmittelzuschuss von 2000 €
- Stipendiatinnen dürfen in Teilzeit (bis zu 20h/Woche) arbeiten

seekicks kann in diesem Zeitraum 4 Studentinnen und 6 Absolventinnen finanziell unterstützen. Schriftlichen Bewerbungen können bis zum 31.01.2024 eingereicht werden. Danach geht es weiter in einen Auswahlworkshop Mitte/Ende Februar. Das genaue Datum geben wir auf unseren Kanäle so schnell wie möglich bekannt.

Bewerbungsformular und alle weiteren Infos:

Web: https://seekicks.org/existwomen/ Infos zu EXIST-Women: https://www.exist.de/EXIST/Navigation/DE/Gruendungsfoerderung/EXIST-WOMEN/EXIST-WOMEN/exist-women.html

[Events]

SOFTIMAGE

11. – 14. Januar 2024
Eröffnung: Donnerstag, 11. Januar, 18-22 Uhr
Lobe Block Berlin, Böttgerstraße 16, 13357 Berlin

Die Ausstellung SOFTIMAGE wurde von 18 Studierenden der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin im Rahmen des gleichnamigen Seminars unter Leitung von Volo Bevza konzipiert. Die künstlerischen Arbeiten erforschen und verknüpfen digitale und analoge Praktiken – von digitaler Malerei auf Leinwand über maschinell und mit 3D-Programmen gefertigte Drucke bis hin zu virtuellen Objektanimationen. Sie laden dazu ein, Perspektiven und Möglichkeiten digitaler Innovationen in der bildenden Kunst auf vielfältige Weise zu entdecken und zu reflektieren.

Mit Arbeiten von: Louie Blaser, Seonah Chae, Yan Chmarau, Alanna Dongowski, Quang Vinh Giang, Christopher von Gruben, Eileen Helm, Mahmoud Ismail, Lara Jordan, Luka Keresman, Tibor Koehne, Christopher Krause, Marie Lempelius, Gabriela Lesmes López, Janine Muckermann, Sebastian Pöge, Allistair Walter, Delphine Wigger
Das Ausstellungsprojekt wird unterstützt durch die weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Mart Stam Gesellschaft und Sculplobe e.V.

[Events]

SEEMARKT

Die Winter-Edition des Kunst- und Flohmarktes SEEMARKT findet am 10.12.23. zwischen 11–17 Uhr an unserer Hochschule statt.

Wer einen Stand machen möchte, kann sich per Mail an relab@kh-berlin.de wenden oder über Instagram (@seemarkt_khb) eine Nachricht senden.

[Events]

IM FOKUS Vortragsreihe

IM FOKUS Vortragsreihe

Das Fachgebiet Bühnen- und Kostümbild lädt mit der Vortragsreihe „IM FOKUS:“ herausragende Bühnen- und Kostümbildner_innen ein, ihre Arbeiten und Arbeitsweisen vorzustellen und mit Studierenden darüber ins Gespräch zu kommen.


Im Wintersemester sind zu Gast – und im Fokus:

die Bühnen- und Kostümbildnerin Mirjam Stängl,

das künstlerische Team Joki Tewes und Jana Findeklee, deren Bereiche Bühne, Kostüm und Video umfassen,

die Kostümbildnerin Lisy Christl, deren Filmkostüme aktuell in "Im Westen nichts Neues“ zu sehen sind,

und

die Kostümbildnerin Victoria Behr, die besonders durch ihre zahlreich prämierten Arbeiten mit Herbert Fritsch bekannt ist.


Die Vorträge finden vor Ort statt: Hörsaal C1.05, kunsthochschule weißensee berlin, Bühringstraße 20, 13086 Berlin


Die Veranstaltungen beginnen jeweils um 17:30, und enden nach einem anschließenden Gespräch gegen 19 Uhr.


07.12.2023 Mirjam Stängl

15.12.2023 Joki Tewes und Jana Findeklee

11.01.2024 Lisy Christl

08.02.2024 Victoria Behr