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[Events]

Ausstellung „Shades of Red“

Puls. Rausch. Ekstase. Intensität. Irritation. Wandel. Fotografie. Erotik. Heilung. Wärme. Liebe. Körper.

Die Ausstellung von Studierenden der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin ist inspiriert vom Thema des psychosomatischen Kongresses „Beziehungen in der Krise – Aufbrüche“ und überträgt dessen Fragen in den künstlerischen Raum. Wie beeinflussen gesellschaftliche Umbrüche unsere Beziehungen? Wo hinterlassen Krisen Spuren – in Körpern, in Bildern, im Material? Und welche neuen Formen des Miteinanders entstehen im Wandel?
Getaucht in rotes Licht, verändern sich die Arbeiten: Konturen weichen auf, Schatten verdichten sich, Farben treten in Beziehung zur Umgebung. Das Licht verstärkt, was ohnehin schon da ist – oder legt neue Schichten frei. Mal wirkt das Rot fordernd, mal umhüllend, mal beunruhigend.
Mit Canberk Akcal, Mathilda Augart, Hannah Brenner, Lucas Burgfried, Julius C.Jeansson, Luan Caja, Yan Chmarau, Colette Callec, Araiké Da SIlva, Nina Frommelt, Liangshiyu Liu, Sofía Mariaca Ewel, Youde Monga, Sieglinde Obexer, Paul Ohnersorgen, Caterina Palumbo, Janosch Raabe, Esther Riegler, Ida-Marie Simonsen, Leevke Succow
Eine Ausstellung der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
Klasse Albrecht Schäfer & Jeewi Lee in Zusammenarbeit mit Tomke Braun
anlässlich des Deutschen Kongress für Psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie 2025

Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin
Eröffnung: 12. März, 19.30 Uhr
Öffnungszeiten:
12. März, 9 – 22 Uhr
13. März, 9 – 19 Uhr
14. März, 9 – 16 Uhr

[College Events]

ERASMUS - Incoming Exchange Students - 2025 - Apply Now!

Dear Prospective Students,
To apply for a guest study at weißensee kunsthochschule berlinn, please use the online application portal (Campuscore) only. The application period for the upcoming winter semester 2025/26 is open from March 1 - April 15.

We look forward to receiving your application.

Please find out more about applying via the link below:

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/en/studies/international/incoming-exchange-students

[College Events]

MA/ Spatial Strategies/ Raumstrategien - Application - NEW DEADLINE 15 May

We look forward to receiving your application.
You still have the opportunity to apply until May 15 12:99 noon (CET) / extended.
for our Master's degree programm Spatial Strategies!

Start of studies: winter semester 2025/26

If you have any questions, please contact Susan Lipp:
studienberatung@kh-berlin.de
Tel 030 47705342

Info about the program:
The two-year fee-based program is intended for graduates of universities and academies, artists, architects, culture and media scholars, designers, sociologists, scientists etc. who wish to acquire - after a one year professional experience - an additional artistic qualification and Master of Arts.

Information on the complete application process can be found at

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/en/studies/departments/ma-spatial-strategies/application-ma-spatial-strategies

[College Events]

Master Design-programs - Application! NEW DEADLINE 15 May 12:00

Dear prospective students,
you can still apply for the Master's programs in Fashion Design, Product Design, Textile and Material Design and Visual Communication until May 15 at 12:00 noon (CET) / with extension.

Start of studies: winter semester 2025/26.

If you have any questions, please contact Susan Lipp:
studienberatung@kh-berlin.de
Tel 030 47705342
We look forward to receiving your application.

Information on the complete online-application-process for can be found at:

Web: https://kh-berlin.de/en/studies/applying-for-studies/master-programs-design

MA Art Therapy [College Events]

Apply Now! MA/ Art Therapy

Application for the start of the summer semester 2026, starting in April 2026.

You can apply via the online application portal until 1 September (23:59 hrs CET).
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]

Salty Water

Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz
Gustav Adolf-Straße 140. 13086 Berlin

Opening:
Fr, . 21.02.2025 at 19:00 Uhr
With Performances of Moa May

Opening times:
22-23.02.2025 / 14:00 -18:00

As part of the seminar Navigating Grief in Creative Practice given by
Lerato Shadi the exhibition Salty Watrer delves in the exploration of
collective sorrow emphasizing how grief shapes identities and
experiences, demonstrating that mourning transcends the individual and
becomes a communal phenomenon. We engage with the concept that the act
of remembering—both painful and restorative—is integral to the
narratives we create. This reflects the complex interplay between love
and loss, a theme that is central to our exhibition.

Participants:
Amanda Bobadilla, Ana Júlia Fortes, Cecilia Buffa, Eddie Choo Wen Yi,
Emma Lang, Julia Siebeky, Kathleen Bomani, Laura Bleck, Liming Lin,
Maria Fallada Llandrich, MN Reyna, Moa May, Montserrat Andrade
Alvarado, Nan / Haonan Liu, Neo / Jalda Faiasie, . NinaCavalcanti,
Pedro André, Sepehr Talebi, Xindi

Professor:
Lerato Shadi / Weißensee Kunsthochschule

Content:
Exhibition, Performance

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Unkürzbar Demonstration

Demonstration against the Berlin Senate's policy of cuts
22.02.2025
2 pm
Rotes Rathaus (Neptunbrunnen)

On 22 February, we will take to the streets together against the cuts policy and for solidarity-based financing of our city. We will not be played off against each other. Only together are we strong!

Web: https://berlin.verdi.de/++file++67a08f13404470d0960be440/download/%23unkuerzbar_Flugblatt_DINA5_Druck.pdf

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„Paper:Drive"

Exploring interactions through the materiality of paper
Exhibition 12.2.-15.2.2025 at Modulor am Moritzplatz, Berlin
Opening: 12.2.25 6-8pm

Seit über 2.000 Jahren dient Papier der Speicherung und Verbreitung von Wissen und prägt die Ausformung zahlreicher Kulturtechniken. Im Zuge technologischer Entwicklungen wurde es jedoch zunehmend durch digitale Medien ersetzt. Seine Eigenschaften, seine Praktikabilität und Langlebigkeit bleiben jedoch einzigartig.
Wie lassen sich die Vorteile von Papier und digitalen Systemen kombinieren? Wie können physisch-digitale Interaktionsformen entstehen, die menschliche Fähigkeiten in der Informationsverarbeitung, -speicherung und -weitergabe unterstützen?
Im CodingIXD-Projekt Paper:Drive entwickeln Studierende der Informatik (FU Berlin) und des Produktdesigns (weißensee kunsthochschule berlin) neo-analoge Artefakte, die physische und digitale Potenziale zu neuen Nutzungsmöglichkeiten vereinen. Das Projekt ist Teil des MoA Design Research Studio des Exzellenzclusters „Matters of Activity“.
Die Projektergebnisse sind in einer Abschlussausstellung vom 12. bis 15. Februar in der Modulor Box zu sehen.

Web: https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/15340/paper-drive-coding-ixd-studio-project-for-coeducation-in-computer-science-and-design

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MoA Design Research Studio. Scaling Nature (4) - Tiles and Tissues

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

10.15 – 17.30 Final Presentation
17.30 – 19.00 Opening Exhibition

Entrance Foyer
Weissensee School of Art and Design
Bühringstrasse 20, 13086 Berlin

The exhibition will be on display in the Entrance Foyer from 12.02.25 – 19.02.25, 09 - 19h

A collaboration by:
Weissensee School of Art and Design Berlin, Department Textile and Material Design
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials MPIKG, Potsdam
Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Tiles and tissues are elements of tessellated systems found in nature, serving as strategies to enable movement, protection, growth, or adaptation in living beings. This concept appears across all scales and various species of plants, animals, and even in geological formations.

Tessellations and tiles also shape our built environment. Such principles allow for specific assembly and repair while providing stability or flexibility according to need. From exploring natural and geometrical strategies the students developed concepts of material systems for a spatial context.

Initial workshops on form-function relationships in nature, in architecture and in geometry laid the theoretical base for the designs. Lectures by natural scientists and a visit to Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials, gave insights into nature`s strategies on how form enables function. Architectural applications of tiling, geometrical background of tessellations and the principle of topological interlocking were introduced through lectures.

A hands-on rapid prototyping workshop together with an introduction in robotic programming allowed for material experimentation and laid out the start for the individual student projects.

The resulting design concepts range from optic screens, body armature, inflatable skin to furniture re-use, climatic devices and many more. Bioinspiration as a strategy opened up new perspectives for the students´ design concepts and led to outstanding combinations of geometry and functionality with highly individual aesthetic approaches.


Concept and Supervision by:
Prof. Christiane Sauer, Nayeli Vega Vargas, Jörg Hugo, Jessica Zmijan,
Yolanda Leask, Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin
Dr. Lorenzo Guiducci, TU Dresden
Prof. Dr. Yuri Estrin, Monash University, University of Western Australia
Dr. Shahrouz Amini, Dr. Binru Yang, Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Fratzl,
Max-Planck-Institute of Colloid and Interfaces, Department of Biomaterials MPIKG, Potsdam
Felix Rasehorn, WINT Design Lab, Berlin

Works by:

Boyoung Chung, Daniela Monedero, Dasol Jeong, Diana Salgado, Ida Haeun Lee, Jihae Lee, Larissa Schieberl, Maja Füspök,
Marieke Niemann, Marina Luding, Merle Marx, Rosalie Ponn, Valentin Titze, Wionna Kallaba, Xiaotong Fu, Yi Jin

[Exhibitions]

„ausgezeichnet“

Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz , Gustav-Adolf-Straße 140, 13096 Berlin
31.1.25 - 2.2.25

Opening : 31.1. 2025 / 6 pm

Opening hours: Sat 1 Feb + Sun 2 Feb / 2-6 pm

Participating artists: Alanna Dongowski, Anatole Carriere, Anton Kruse, Antonia Stoyke, Elisabeth Fraenkel, Federico Torres de los Rios, Felix Mehlig, Jakob Mirasol, Johannes Krenn, Julian Grund, Laura Mercedes Arndt, Lili Theilen, Nele Fiedler, Sheila Zimmermann, Shula Weisz Quinn, Stella Severson, Zoe Maurischat

The exhibition ‘ausgezeichnet’ deals with sketchbooks, their definition and presentation. As silent companions, sketchbooks often visualise the intimate, searching and playful creative process of artists. Using experimental approaches, students of painting question and expand not only the format, but also the conceptual foundations of the sketchbook in order to emphasise its significance for artistic practice. The vernissage is on 31 January 2025 at 6 pm in the Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz. On the weekend of 1 and 2 February, the exhibition will be open from 2-6 pm.

[Exhibitions]

„-räumen“

The project is an ongoing cooperation between the Braunschweig University of Art (Nasan Tur class) and the Master's programme in Spatial Strategies at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. After students from the HBK Braunschweig exhibited at the Kunsthalle an Hamburger Platz in Weißensee last semester, a selection of students from the MA Spatial Strategies programme will be taking part in the HBK Braunschweig OpenStudios this semester.

‘There are many spaces. They overlap, vibrate with each other and are accessible in very different ways. The exhibition ‘-räumen’ combines the active creation and editing of spaces with entering/surrounding, participating in and observing given spaces. We find ourselves in the midst of negotiating, approaching, fragmenting, turning away, collecting, reversing, connecting, opening, moving, experiencing, remembering...’

Participating art academy Weissensee: Laura Bleck, Emma Lang, Farokh Falsafi, Alexey Kokhanov, Jeremy Knowles, Carlos Vivero Ricoy, Asuman Kirlangic Joumarin, Amanda Bobadilla

HBK Braunschweig
Sculpture studio building ARTmax Frankfurter Str. 3b


Exhibition opening:
Thu, 30 Jan 2025, at 18:00
with performances by Emma Lang and Alexey Kokhanov
and Nightwalk by Jeremy Knowles

Fri, 31 Jan
Lectures and activations by Laura Bleck, Farokh Falsafi, Carlos Vivero Ricoy, Asuman Kirlangic Joumarin and Amanda Bobadilla

Opening hours:
Thu, 30 Jan: 6 - 10 pm
Fri, 31 Jan, Sat & Sun, 1 - 2 Feb: 12 - 7 pm

Venues and period Collaboration:
June 2024 - Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin (Weißensee Kunsthochschule)
January 2025 - HBK - Class Nasan Tur - HBK Braunschweig
Sculpture studio building ARTmax Frankfurter Str. 3b

Supervising teachers:
Prof. Pauline Doutreluingne,Viron Erol Vert and Lerato Shadi / Weißensee Kunsthochschule
Prof. Nasan Tur / Braunschweig University of Art

Project content:
Exhibitions Berlin/Braunschweig, performances, workshops, exchange and discourse between the students and teachers of the two art academies

[Events]

Hochschulwahlen zum Akademischen Senat und Erweiterten Akademischen Senat

Am Mittwoch, den 29.01.2025, 11 – 16 Uhr finden die Wahlen zum Akademischen Senat und zum Erweiterten Akademischen Senat in der Professor_innen-Mensa statt.

Kontakt:
Sarah Bruns, Franziska Odemer
Gremienreferat
Raum A0.03

gremien@kh-berlin.de
Sprechzeiten: Dienstag und Mittwoch, 9 – 15 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung

Weitere Infos zu den Hochschulwahlen:

Web: https://helpdesk.kh-berlin.de/help/de-de/204-wahlen-akademischer-senat-und-erweiterter-akademischer-senat

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‘On the necessity of a postmodern logic of the mirror’

Lecture by Dr Swantje Martach

The mirror was previously regarded as an instrument of reflection: it should reflect the self as authentically as possible. But does this logic still do justice to the mirror today, in an age of AI (Mirror App), metaverse avatars and virtual mirrors? Or do they not already function performatively in the sense of diffraction (according to Karen Barad)?

Dr Swantje Martach completed her doctorate in philosophy on ‘A Neo-Materialist Ontology of Dress’ at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of the Arts London. As a post-doc at the Institute of Aesthetics at the University of Preschau (Slovakia), she researched unseen beauties. Since March 2024 she has been working at the Academy of Fashion & Design in Wiesbaden. She currently edits the issue ‘Pictorial Practices of Dressing’ of the magazine IMAGE, and co-edits the book projects Atlas of Data Bodies and Deartification. On 23 January 2025 at 5 pm, she will speak about the mirror image in postmodernism in the lecture hall of the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. The lecture is open to all interested parties.

[Events]

Music Theatre Workshop „Falstaff“

18 January 2025 at 7 pm and
19 January at 5 pm
both in the Studio Hall of the Hanns Eisler School of Music at Charlottenstraße 55.

In the second music theatre workshop of the winter semester, stage and costume design students from the weißensee school of art and design berlin will develop interpretations of Verdi's operatic comedy ‘Falstaff’ together with directing and singing students from the Hanns Eisler School of Music. The libretto of Giuseppe Verdi's opera is based on William Shakespeare's comedy ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. Deception and disguise are central elements of the plot when the women make fools of the chronically lustful and financially strapped title character.

PART 1
Director
Hannah Wendel
Set design
Lucie Loubet del Par
Costume design
Maité Dietzel

PART 2
stage direction
Kundry Rymon
Costume & Set Design
Sara Liv Theisen
Costume & Set Design
Margaux Schmidt

PART 3
Director
Jüntao Ye
Set Design
Lu Metz
Costume design
Johanna Kreher

[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.