Each year,”Rundgang Kunst”offers students the chance to showcase their art to a larger public within an institutional structure. At the opening, Professor Wiebke Möhring, Vice President Academic Affairs at TU Dortmund University, and Teacher Barbara Welzel, Academic Director of School Stadt, welcomed the many guests. On behalf of the Rectorate, Professor Möhring presented the Arts Prizes, each including prize money of EUR500, in the categories Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Photography and the Edition Prize.
The Prize Winners
The Arts Prize for Painting went to Jerome Braun for his work “Pass away Wanderschaft”. He checks out the transformation of everyday reality through the omnipresence of a new naturalness in the simulated and the artificial. Based upon concepts largely produced by AI, he produces analog oil paintings in which montages of the familiar and the absurd open brand-new perspectives, with the human figure at their center.
In the Graphics category, Dana Leske was granted the Arts Reward for her work “Sehnot”, in which drifting plastic items and deep-sea jellyfish interact. In the garish colors, the dissonance and the extreme cuts, one senses the discomfort over nature’s destruction. According to the jury, the horror of ocean pollution is embedded in the depiction of the brightly colored plastic things, whose luminosity makes them appealing yet essentially indestructible.
The Photography prize went to Allegra Höltge for “Dysmorphia– Schönheit liegt im Auge der Betrachtenden”, which attends to physical self-perception in the context of representing female nudity. She reveals how a distorted self-image can end up being a concern. By printing her naked photos on semi-transparent material sheets, she develops an interaction in between revealing and concealing.
In Sculpture, Levin Denda was honored for his work “How’s Life,” in which he acutely perceives and makes visible the inner procedures individuals frequently overlook in the middle of the bustle of daily life. The jury praised his simplicity and humor: by integrating everyday products, he crafts objects and video installations that initially appear playful however carry extensive insights into human behavior.
The Edition Reward of the Rectorate was awarded to Ida Maria Weidl. Her work “Weberstraße” a series of images assembled from private pictures, depicts a significant section of the path between her home and her place of research study at TU Dortmund University. The piece merges a contemporary experience of mobility and media– such as the quick passing of surroundings outside a vehicle window– with a concentrated level of sensitivity to the details of the landscape.
“Rundgang Kunst” of TU Dortmund University
In the exhibition, students of the Visual Arts present the works they have developed and realized in the studios of the Department for Art and Material Culture at TU Dortmund University. “Rundgang Kunst” ranks amongst the most checked out exhibits each year at School Stadt in the Dortmunder U. It can be seen till 17 August throughout the Dortmunder U’s opening hours. Admission is totally free.
At School Stadt, TU Dortmund University routinely offers insights into its research study and teaching as a partner in the Dortmunder U. Exhibit discussions and the area as a forum for dialogue offer the local community chances– through numerous occasion formats– to learn more about and discuss the questions and findings of academic disciplines together.