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[Events]

greendesign 14.0 Symposium – COHABITATION – Transformation von Räumen

greendesign 14.0 Symposium – COHABITATION – Transformation von Räumen
COHABITATION – Transformation of Spaces

Datum: 24. April 2024

Ort: Aula, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, Bühringstr. 20, 13086 Berlin

Symposium speakers:

Prof. Folke Köbberling
Nina Pawlicki
Yolanda Leask
Marc Page
Gilly Karjevsky
Dr. Boris Reyher
Felix Dietsch
Rahel Jacob
Prof. Dr. Aletta Bonn
Dr. Dörte Martens
Gaia Reiner & Elisa Machmer
Carlo Melerski
Moderation: Jasmin Jouhar

Opening words: Dr. Angelika Richter


Das Symposium COHABITATION – Transformation von Räumen bildet den Auftakt eines interdisziplinären Entwurfsprojekts im greenlab, das sich mit den Wechselwirkungen zwischen Natur, Stadt und Gesellschaft auseinandersetzt. Es ist gleichzeitig der zweite jährliche Nachhaltigkeitstag der weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. Angesichts sich verschärfender klimatischer Herausforderungen und wachsender Urbanisierung untersucht das Symposium, wie Architektur, Stadtplanung und Design zu resilienten und nachhaltigen Lebensräumen beitragen können.
Mit Vorträgen von Expert:innen aus Wissenschaft, Kunst und Stadt- und Regionalplanung thematisiert die Veranstaltung zentrale Fragen: Wie können grüne Infrastrukturen und Materialinnovationen urbane Räume transformieren? Welche Rolle spielen Partizipation und lokale Wertschöpfung für eine nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung?
Das Symposium lädt dazu ein, neue Wege für eine umweltbewusste, lebenswerte Stadt zu erkunden – von der Spree bis zur Oder, von unserem Campus bis in den urbanen Raum Berlins.

[Events]

Sommersemester 2025 Vollversammlungen der Fachgebiete/ Plenary Meeting of the departments

English follows German

An dieser Stelle werden nach und nach alle Termine der Vollversammlungen (Studienbeginn 22. April) eingetragen.

Mode-Design: Di, 22. April um 10:00 Uhr, C 2.05, C-Gebäude, 2. Etage
Produkt-Design: Di, 22. April um 12:00 Uhr, Flughalle, C-Gebäude, Dachgeschoss
Textil- und Flächen-Design: Di, 22. April um 13:00 Uhr, Raum A 2.03, Altbau
Visuelle Kommunikation: Di, 22. April um 10 Uhr, Raum C 1.03. C-Gebäude, 1. EG
Malerei: Mi, 23. April um 12:00 Uhr, Foyer Malerei
Bildhauerei: Mi, 23. April um 16:00 Uhr, Bildhauereihalle
Bühnen- und Kostümbild: Di, 22. April um 11:00 Uhr, im „Schwarzer Raum“, Concordia, 2. Etage
Raumstrategien: Di, 22. April um 11:00 Uhr, im Seminarraum, T3.01, Concordia, 3. Etage

Bei Fragen meldet euch gerne unter: studienberatung@kh-berlin.de

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All dates of the plenary meetings (start of studies 22 April) will be entered here one by one.

Fashion Design: Tue, 22 April at 10:00 hrs, C 2.05, C Building, 2nd floor
Product Design: Tue, 22 April at 12:00 hrs, "Flughalle", C-Building, attic floor
Textile & Material Design: Tue, 22 April at 13:00 hrs, room A 2.03, old building
Visual Communication: Tue, 22 April at 10 a.m. in room C 1.03 C-Building, 1st floor
Painting: Wed, 23 April at 12:00 hrs, Foyer Painting
Sculpture: Wed, 23 April at 16:00 hrs, Sculpture Hall
Stage and Costume Design: Tue, 22 April at 11:00 hrs, in the “Black Room,” Concordia, 2nd floor
Spatial strategies: Tue, 22 April at 11:00 hrs, in Seminar-room, T3.01, Concordia, 3rd floor

If you have any questions, please contact us at: studienberatung@kh-berlin.de
If you have any questions, please contact us at: studienberatung@kh-berlin.de

[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]

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

[Events]

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.

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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