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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/

[College Events]

Application MA-Spatial Strategies/ Bewerbung zum MA-Raumstrategien/

We look forward to receiving your application.
You still have the opportunity to apply until 30 April for our Master's degree programm Spatial Strategies

Start of studies: winter semester 24/25.

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

MA Art Therapy [College Events]

MA-Kunsttherapie -Bewerbung-

Bewerbung für den Studienbeginn zum SoSe 2025, Studienstart April 2025.

Bis zum 15. September können Sie sich über das Online-Bewerbungsportal bewerben.
Bei Fragen wenden Sie sich gerne an Susan Lipp: 030 47705342

Informationen zum kompletten Bewerbungsprozess Weiterbildungsstudiengang Kunsttherapie finden Sie unter:

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

[College Events]

Infotage / Rundgang/ Mappenberatungen

Liebe Studieninteressierte,

alle wichtigen Termine zu unseren Studieninfotagen, Mappenberatungen sowie zum jährlichen Rundgang finden Sie hier:

Dear prospective students,

You can find all the important dates for our study information days, portfolio consultations and the annual open days here:

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

[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]

"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.

[Events]

„Erbe sichern, um Zukunft zu gestalten“

Symposium der Arbeitsgruppe 89+ Fotoperspektive Ost

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:

Web: https://www.dgph.de/aktuelles/erbe-sichern-um-zukunft-zu-gestalten-2-symposium-der-dgph-arbeitsgruppe-89