Each year,”Rundgang Kunst”offers students the chance to display their art to a wider public within an institutional structure. At the opening, Teacher Wiebke Möhring, Vice President Academic Affairs at TU Dortmund University, and Teacher Barbara Welzel, Academic Director of School Stadt, invited the numerous visitors. On behalf of the Rectorate, Teacher Möhring provided the Arts Prizes, each consisting of prize money of EUR500, in the categories Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Photography and the Edition Reward.
The Reward Winners
The Arts Prize for Painting went to Jerome Braun for his work “Die Wanderschaft”. He explores the transformation of everyday reality through the omnipresence of a brand-new naturalness in the simulated and the artificial. Based upon motifs mainly produced by AI, he produces analog oil paintings in which montages of the familiar and the absurd open new point of views, with the human figure at their center.
In the Graphics category, Dana Leske was granted the Arts Reward for her work “Sehnot”, in which floating plastic objects and deep-sea jellyfish connect. In the garish colors, the harshness and the extreme cuts, one senses the discomfort over nature’s destruction. According to the jury, the scary of ocean pollution is embedded in the representation of the brilliantly colored plastic objects, whose luminosity makes them alluring yet essentially unbreakable.
The Photography reward 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 exposes how a distorted self-image can become a concern. By printing her nude photos on semi-transparent material sheets, she develops an interaction between revealing and concealing.
In Sculpture, Levin Denda was honored for his work “How’s Life,” in which he acutely perceives and makes noticeable the inner processes people often ignore in the middle of the bustle of daily life. The jury applauded his simpleness and humor: by combining everyday products, he crafts items and video installations that at first appear lively but bring profound insights into human habits.
The Edition Reward of the Rectorate was granted to Ida Maria Weidl. Her work “Weberstraße” a series of images put together from private photographs, illustrates a considerable section of the route in between her home and her place of study at TU Dortmund University. The piece combines a modern experience of mobility and media– such as the rapid passing of surroundings outside an automobile window– with a concentrated sensitivity to the details of the landscape.
“Rundgang Kunst” of TU Dortmund University
In the exhibition, trainees of the Visual Arts present the works they have developed and recognized 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 viewed till 17 August throughout the Dortmunder U’s opening hours. Admission is complimentary.
At School Stadt, TU Dortmund University routinely supplies insights into its research and teaching as a partner in the Dortmunder U. Exhibition discussions and the space as a forum for discussion provide the regional neighborhood chances– through various event formats– to learn about and go over the concerns and findings of scholastic disciplines together.