Calendar
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2024-06-06 13:00:00
[Exhibitions]
Pferdekuss
Exhibition by students of painting
Project space at Kunstquartier Bethanien,
Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
07.06 - 17.06.2024, daily 1 - 6 pm
Opening on 07.06.2024, 6 pm
Horses are a popular and frequently depicted motif in art.
In recent years, teachers have noticed a conspicuous accumulation of horse paintings in the corridors and studios of the painting building. New depictions of these versatile animals have appeared almost weekly. Many of these works are so well done that the question of why doesn't even arise. The pictures speak for themselves.
The painting teachers have taken this as an opportunity to present the horse paintings created in Weißensee in all their different facets in an appropriate public setting.
The material is already available - so the exhibition does not require long preparation.
The whole thing is curated by a team of four students, supported by lecturers Friederike Feldmann and Alexander Wagner.
The works correspond with each other, similarities and contrasts are highlighted, references are made clear, comparisons between the different working methods and thematic focuses become visible. The spectrum of works ranges from miniatures to wall-filling formats - tongue-in-cheek, humorous, surprising, as homage or unbroken declaration of love.
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2024-06-03 00:00:00
[College Events]
see up Workspaces / Atelierplätze zu vergeben
Bewerbungsfrist: 20.06.2024
Web: https://kh-berlin.de/hochschule/see-up-absolvent-innen-netzwerk/raeume-und-stipendien
Atelierplätze zu günstigen Bedingungen für Absolvent_innen der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
Bewerbungsformular & detaillierte Informationen unter:
Alle Infos unter:
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2024-05-23 00:00:00
[Exhibitions]
Exhibition: here, there
24 - 31 May /// KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße
A collective exhibition of 10 students of painting and sculpture on the subject of autobiography.
‘here, there’ gives space to personal stories told in videos, installations, paintings and other media and interweaves these narratives from different perspectives. Despite the different biographies and transnationality of the individual artists, the exhibition unites the individual positions into a collective experience of interconnected human experiences.’
Participating artists:
Neda Aydin, Elena Mir Fakhraei, Anne Bolena, Anna Eigner, Tara Mianji, Mathilda Augart, Tibor Köhne, Phina Hansen, Soorena Petgar, Raras Umaratih
KUNSTRAUM Potsdamer Straße
Potsdamer Str. 65 - 67, multi-storey car park in the courtyard
10785 Berlin
Opening: 24.05.2024 at 6 pm
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2024-05-15 17:30:00
[Events]
‘IM FOKUS’ lecture series
The Department of Stage and Costume Design is continuing the ‘IM FOKUS’ lecture series from last semester and is once again inviting outstanding stage and costume designers from the fields of film and theatre to present their work and working methods and to talk about them with students and interested participants.
On 16 May at 17:30, Christian Schmidt will be a guest in lecture theatre C1.05 at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. The award-winning stage and costume designer studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna under Erich Wonder. He regularly collaborates with the directors Amélie Niermeyer, Claus Guth, Yona Kim, Christof Loy and Christian Spuck. His focus is on musical theatre.
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2024-05-14 17:00:00
[Events]
Public lecture series „see – ander(e)s sehen“
Professors present themselves and their research topics
each at 5.00 pm in the auditorium of the weißensee academy of art berlin
‘Intuitive Material and Social Textile Studies’ with Nadine Göpfert
Wednesday, 15.05.24 at 5 pm
How are innovative, sustainable and forward-looking designs, concepts and perspectives on textile materials created? As part of the lecture series, Nadine Göpfert will give an insight into her practice as a textile designer and her teaching concept in the field of experimental design in the Department of Textile and Material Design.
Nadine Göpfert is a multidisciplinary designer. Her work includes creative direction, design and consultancy in the field of textile and material design for interior, product, art and fashion.
Her mostly reduced designs question the conventional materiality, form and nature of existing objects, their functions and common use through minimal, yet radical interventions.
Within her collections and installations, she examines the function and conventional use of materials in order to develop new design perspectives. Her internationally exhibited research projects question the relationship between clothing, the individual and society in order to uncover unconscious patterns of behaviour in the everyday use of textiles.
Nadine Göpfert has taught at the Bauhaus University Weimar (DE), the Sandberg Instituut Amsterdam (NL) and the École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est (FR), among others, in recent years before her appointment at the weissensee school of art and design berlin in 2023. Past exhibitions include Fetishism in Fashion (curated by Li Edelkoort), Trapholt Design Museum (DK), Future Fashions, Dutch Design Week (NL) and Utopian Bodies, Liljevalchs Museum Stockholm (SE).
Further dates:
05.06. Prof. Jakob Timpe (Product Design)
19.06. Prof. Dr Uwe Herrmann (Art Therapy)
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2024-04-19 11:00:00
[Events]
„Erbe sichern, um Zukunft zu gestalten“
Symposium der Arbeitsgruppe 89+ Fotoperspektive Ost
Web: https://www.dgph.de/aktuelles/erbe-sichern-um-zukunft-zu-gestalten-2-symposium-der-dgph-arbeitsgruppe-89
Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie (DGPh) und die weißensee kunsthochschule berlin (KHB) laden zum 2. Symposium der DGPh-Arbeitsgruppe ‘89+ Fotoperspektive Ost am 20. April 2024 ein.
Nachdem das erste Symposium im Dezember 2022 die Bedeutung der Fotografie in der DDR und im (Ost-)Deutschland der Nachwendezeit reflektiert und damit einige Bewegung in kunstwissenschaftliche Diskurse gebracht hat, beleuchtet das diesjährige Symposium einzelne Facetten der DDR-Fotogeschichte – zudem mit einem Blick ins benachbarte Ausland. Unter der Überschrift „Erbe sichern um Zukunft zu gestalten“ werden vier Themenkomplexe im Fokus stehen:
„Der Übergang. Die Wege der Bilder vom Osten in den Westen und umgekehrt“; „Die alternative Kunstszene. Gab es in der DDR eine künstlerische Subkultur?“; „Schätze aus dem Archiv „Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie“. In einer Abschlussdiskussion wird die Machbarkeitsstudie „DGPh-Netzwerk DDR-Foto“ vorgestellt sowie ein Ausblick auf kommende Pläne, Themen und Projekte gegeben.
Die Veranstaltung beginnt am Vorabend, dem 19. April, 17 Uhr, mit der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung mit Arbeiten von Studierenden der HGB Leipzig (Prof. Tina Bara) und der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin in der KUNSTHALLE am Hamburger Platz.
Programm und Anmeldung:
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2024-04-17 00:00:00
[Events]
METABOLISM, Symposium of the greenlab
greenlab is an interdisciplinary research platform that supports and drives sustainable design strategies at the weissensee school of art and design berlin. On 18 April, greenlab is extending an open invitation to a symposium entitled METABOLISM, in which artists, designers, researchers, town planners, ecologists and activists are going to deal with the interplay between nature and culture: with urban green spaces and the networked resources in our cities and their hinterlands. At a time in which cities are confronted with unprecedented challenges in connection with climate change, the loss of bio-diversity and the management of resources, urban green spaces are becoming more and more important. They are not just aesthetically appealing additions to our cityscape; they are, above all, a significant constituent part of resilient, sustainable and liveable cities. In the course of this symposium, participants will be able to enter into interdisciplinary dialogue, to exchange innovative ideas and to develop new collaborations that aim to create a more sustainable and integrated future for the city and the countryside. Registration is required.
Web: https://greenlab.kh-berlin.de/archive/news/greendesign-13-0-symposium-metabolism-stoffwechsel
Registration and programme:
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2024-04-14 09:00:00
[Exhibitions]
"Signs of the time: fashion drawings from archive to design"
The exhibition shows the results of the project, “Fashion signs and drawings: The education and training for fashion designers at the weissensee school of art and design berlin and their influence on the style of the GDR Institute of Fashion of the late 1970s and the 1980s.” In the summer semester of 2023, students at the Department of Fashion Design explored fashion drawings which were created at the university in the 1980s and of which some have now been digitised and made accessible by the Stadtmuseum Berlin. These drawings then formed the starting point and inspiration for current designs, collages and new drawings as well as for theoretical reflections on the impact of analogue and digital archives on creativity in fashion. The exhibition shows both fashion drawings from the archive and the designs that have been created out of them.
The project was funded by digiS, the Berlin Centre for Research and Competence in Digitisation, and conducted in cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Berlin. The aim of the funding programme is to create lasting access to the digitised, cultural memory of Berlin, to make the digitised data available as far as possible and to ensure the long-term usability of the data and the digitised products.
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2024-04-14 17:30:00
[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
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2024-04-12 00:00:00
[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
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2024-04-09 10:00:00
[College Events]
Info days / Tour / Portfolio consultations
Study orientation week in Berlin: 10-14 June 2024
Web: https://kh-berlin.de/studium/studienbewerbung/studienorientierung-fachberatung
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.
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2024-03-18 00:00:00
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
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2024-02-21 00:00:00
[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.
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2024-02-19 00:00:00
[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.
Web: https://www.stiftung-genshagen.de/veranstaltungen/veranstaltungen-2024/kuku/default-f86d8f71e8/
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.
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2024-02-17 00:00:00
[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