TEN

Welcome and farewell, graduation and departure: with a large joint exhibition at the Weserburg – Museum of Modern Art, the master students of the Fine Arts program at the Bremen University of the Arts will once again bid farewell to the completion of their studies this year. Current works by ten young artists are on display under the title “TEN”: Andreas Becker, Christian Bungies, Yumi Jung, Min Jung Kang, Janine Klank, Franziska Keller, Marei Lutterbach, Lu Nguyen, Anna Roberta Vattes and Philipp Zähringer.

The artistic positions are diverse and very different, which makes this year’s exhibition particularly exciting. Some of the artists feel committed to a single medium, others work in parallel with different media. On display is classical painting, on the one hand large, abstract color fields, as in the case of Andreas Becker, on the other figurative, as in Marei Lutterbach’s interiors populated by mostly serious-looking children. Large, more or less abstracted drawings are shown by Franziska Keller and Anna Roberta Vatte, and Janine Klank’s paintings combine drawing and painting.

Organically flowing but also brittle, broken up or geometrically constructed sculptures and objects are shown by Minjung Kang and Anna Roberta Vattes. Strange or stage-like object installations are also among them, such as a tall, elegant sculpture by Franziska Keller made of found objects or the installation by Yumi Jung, who recreates everyday objects from her surroundings and assembles them into memory spaces. Digital prints with geometric patterns by Philip Zähringer hang next to video and audio works by Christian Bungies or the collage-like video loop by Lu Nguyen, whose works deal with the self-motivation of artists. In this way, formal and thematic considerations of very different kinds come together to form a stimulating whole that stands for ten idiosyncratic and individual perspectives and artistic positions.

With the Meisterschüler program, the Bremen University of the Arts offers outstanding graduates the opportunity to deepen their personal positions in two additional semesters and to further explore their own artistic path after they have passed their diploma. The joint final exhibition is traditionally the highlight of the master student year. As part of the exhibition opening on August 10, the Karin Hollweg Prize will also be awarded for the seventh time this year. The prize, endowed with a total of € 15,000, is one of the most important and most highly endowed art promotion prizes at German art colleges. It is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation.