Annual Exhibition 2024

The graduates of the Digital Media and Integrated Design courses at the Bremen University of the Arts (HfK) are holding their annual exhibition from November 15 to 24, 2024. 46 young artists are showing bachelor's/master's thesis and uniting two important buildings of the participating faculties. The Auditorium, the Galerie Flut and Nebenflut in the Speicher XI 8 building are connected to Halle 1 of the new Speicher XI A building by the exhibition.

The students' experimental and interdisciplinary search for individual forms of expression, innovative design approaches and creative solutions is reflected in the HfK typical diversity during the annual exhibition. A wide spectrum of artistic media can be experienced: film, photography, graphics, illustration, installation, fashion, performance, product design, sculpture and video. In their works, the graduates refer to personal stories, family archives or theoretical works to talk about important current topics – such as exploring one's own identity through art and design or reflecting on the possibilities of connecting with nature as a human being. Other works deal with gender-based violence, racism, social norms and the importance of public spaces for democracy.

A highlight of the exhibition opening on November 15, 2024, 6 p.m., will be the awarding of the Frese Design Prize, which is endowed with 10,000 euros. It has been awarded to young designers and creators from the HfK Bremen since 2014 and helps to make graduates from the Department of Art and Design visible nationally and internationally with their work, to promote their design commitment and to support their professional start.

We are very pleased to have won the following jury members for the Frese Design Award:

Saskia van der Meer is a German/Dutch interdisciplinary designer based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Her work is located in various fields of (graphic) design, with a strong focus on (unreadable) typography, editorial design, posters and visual identity. She is also passionate about sound, film/animation and performance and combines this with her design approaches, for instance in her spatial works or artistic research. Right after her bachelor's degree at University of the Arts Bremen, she spent there two semesters as a lecturerbefore completing her diploma in Communication Design and Exhibition Design/Scenography at University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe. After one and a half years at Team Thursday, she currently works and lives as a graphic designer in Rotterdam.

Julia Bulk (Dr. phil.) studied history of art, German and history at the University of Cologne and University College London. From 2010 to 2013 she worked at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, where, among other things, she curated the exhibitions “Georg Winter. Fleeting Quake” (2012) and “Fritz Winter. Inner Nature” (2013). 
Bulk has been director of the Wilhelm Wagenfeld House in Bremen since 2014. There she showed exhibitions such as “The Discovery of Things. Photography and Design”, “Stacking. A Principle of Modernity”, “World of Glass. Transparent Design” and “Graphic Novel”. From 2018 to 2021 she was a member of the DFG-funded scientific network “Parasocieties” at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The permanent exhibition “Wilhelm Wagenfeld A to Z” that she designed opened in 2021.

Pedro Oliveira is a researcher and sound artist whose work is committed to an anticolonial study of listening and its material intersections with the violences of the European border. His work was exhibited and performed at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Send/Receive Festival Winnipeg, CTM Festival, Festival Novas Frequências, Akademie Schloss Solitude, among others. He held fellowships at the Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, and taught at the Humboldt University Berlin and Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. Currently he is a guest faculty in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at the Universität der Künste Berlin.

Bruno Moreschi is a researcher and artist. PhD in Arts from the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), with passage at the Uniarts Helsinki. His investigations are related to the deconstruction of systems and the decoding of procedures and social practices in the fields of the arts, museums, visual culture and technology. Since 2023, he has been a fellow conducting research at LIAS – Leuphana University Institute for Advanced Studies. There, he develops new methodologies to train computer vision, particularly inspired by critical pedagogy and conceptual art. His projects are recognized by grants, exhibitions and institutions such as ZKM, Van Abbemuseum, Collegium Helveticum ETH, 33rd Bienal de Arte de São Paulo, SESC, Rumos Itau Cultural, Funarte, University of Cambridge and Bauhaus Fellowship.

Exhibitors:

Halle 1
Marcela Antipan Olate DM.MA – “Mediciones*: Exploration 01” (*measurements), Jelko Arnds DM.MA – Zur Politik der Infrastrukturen, Milena Anna Breiter ID.BA – Du bist ein Tier, Z., Livia Brocke ID.MA – DUST,  Amanda Brockmann ID.MA – Forest, Raphael Brückner ID.BA – Dornige Chancen, Emma Brzezina ID.BA – Was fehlt?, Valerie Buchholz ID.BA – Wildkraut – Das Sichtbare sehen, Christine Claussen ID.BA – choreo-graphy alphabet, Louisa Victoria Clever ID.MA – Patriarchat mit Todesfolge, Véra Marie Deubner ID.BA – Bella Ciao, Yixiao Du ID.MA – The Orchid, Janina Ebner ID.MA – Über die Würde des Lebens, Amina Falah ID.MA – Reise des unsichtbaren, Xiangyu Fu DM.BA – AI-ism, Anisha Gattnar ID.MA – Stülp, Nathalie Gebert DM.MA – Anthofluid, Uma Grotrian-Steinweg ID.BA – The Archive is What?, Nele Haland ID.BA – BREAK UP, Lena Heinze ID.BA – Liebe Mutti! Liebe Omas! Lieber Vati!, Vivian Hernandez Ramirez DM.MA – Sonic cartography, Lucy Hollwedel ID.MA – This Book Will Kill You, Saeyeon Kim ID.BA – 153, Henrik Knüppel ID.BA – in der stille, Anna Kreitsmann ID.BA – Merk würdig, Christian Krüger ID.BA – Evolution Darstellen, Ruijie Li ID.BA – Wait Dog, Ruben Lyon ID.BA – Weißer Sport und zweite Heimat, Kim Mayer ID.MA – Wodka und Schokolade, Fabian Mosele DM.MA – Democratizing Synthiola, Céline Schmidt ID.MA – Allem Anschein nach wahr, Sophie Schmidt ID.BA – IN THE CHELSEA HOTEL, Lennart Schunk ID.MA – Lirum Larum, Malte Servaty ID.BA – stop messing around, Martha Skorupa ID.BA – Textiles Erzählen, Chul Gyun Yoo ID.MA – Wo ist meine Heimat?, Minji Yu ID.BA – TRANSFORMER, Jone Zilinskaite ID.BA – echt fake

Galerie Flut
Simon Lang DM.BA – RAVE, Leonie Lindl ID.MA – the sea is not a question of power / this is an ocean prayer, Sarah Finja Rost ID.BA – Schreibt …

Nebenflut
Xiangyu Fu DM.BA – AI-ism, Thomas Lane DM.MA – Desquamation

Auditorium
Nicolas-Friedrich Hohlt ID.MA – Eine kleine Ewigkeit, Andrij Smirnov & Luis Janßen ID.MA – GO TO HELL, GOLIATH

Design concept and curation: Elizaveta Kovalenko and Liudmila Savelyeva
Organizational direction: Lorraine Liedert

Special thanks to Petra and Dieter Frese Foundation and Friends of the Bremen University of the Arts