Each year,”Rundgang Kunst”provides trainees the opportunity to display their art to a wider public within an institutional framework. 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 various visitors. On behalf of the Rectorate, Teacher Möhring presented the Arts Prizes, each consisting of cash prize of EUR500, in the categories Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Photography and the Edition Reward.
The Prize Winners
The Arts Reward for Painting went to Jerome Braun for his work “Pass away Wanderschaft”. He checks out the change of daily reality through the omnipresence of a brand-new naturalness in the simulated and the synthetic. Based on concepts largely created by AI, he produces analog oil paintings in which montages of the familiar and the unreasonable open up brand-new viewpoints, with the human figure at their center.
In the Graphics classification, Dana Leske was granted the Arts Prize for her work “Sehnot”, in which drifting plastic things and deep-sea jellyfish connect. In the garish colors, the harshness and the radical cuts, one senses the pain over nature’s destruction. According to the jury, the horror of ocean contamination is embedded in the representation of the vibrantly colored plastic things, whose luminosity makes them attractive yet practically unbreakable.
The Photography reward went to Allegra Höltge for “Dysmorphia– Schönheit liegt im Auge der Betrachtenden”, which addresses bodily self-perception in the context of representing female nudity. She exposes how a distorted self-image can end up being a problem. By printing her nude pictures on semi-transparent material sheets, she produces 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 noticeable the inner procedures individuals typically neglect in the middle of the bustle of everyday life. The jury praised his simplicity and humor: by integrating everyday materials, he crafts items and video installations that at first appear spirited but bring profound insights into human habits.
The Edition Reward of the Rectorate was awarded to Ida Maria Weidl. Her work “Weberstraße” a series of images put together from specific pictures, illustrates a significant sector of the path in between her home and her location of research study at TU Dortmund University. The piece combines a modern experience of mobility and media– such as the rapid death of landscapes outside a vehicle window– with a concentrated level of sensitivity to the information of the landscape.
“Rundgang Kunst” of TU Dortmund University
In the exhibit, trainees of the Visual Arts present the works they have actually developed and realized in the studios of the Department for Art and Product Culture at TU Dortmund University. “Rundgang Kunst” ranks amongst the most visited exhibits each year at School Stadt in the Dortmunder U. It can be seen up until 17 August throughout the Dortmunder U’s opening hours. Admission is totally free.
At Campus Stadt, TU Dortmund University frequently offers insights into its research and teaching as a partner in the Dortmunder U. Exhibit presentations and the space as an online forum for discussion provide the local community opportunities– through various occasion formats– to learn more about and discuss the questions and findings of academic disciplines together.