Prof. Asli Serbest

In this final part of the “Gestaltungsgrundlagen”, we will reflect on the results of the previous weeks and explore different ways of representing them in space. We will address questions of display, exhibition-making, curatorial considerations, and spatial representation.?   For the exhibition Auditorium, Galerie L, Galerie Flut and Nebenflut are reserved from 19.01.2025 to 28.01.2025. This includes the course week, exhibition set-up, Rundgang, and deinstallation. Dates of the class: final block, every day starting at 10:00 (except for the theory session). - Set-up: January 19–23 (KW04) - First meeting: 19.01.2026 at 10:00 / Auditorium - Rundgang: January 27 (Tuesday) - Deinstallation: January 28 (Wednesday) The complete week (January 19–23) is dedicated to the exhibition set-up, which will be carried out collectively, even though students are assigned to different supervisors. A detailed schedule, including each supervisor’s days, will be shared with the group in advance. --- In all areas of design, visual representations are extremely helpful for testing and communicating ideas and making them understandable to others. In this workshop, we will look at various tools that can help with this. We will also explore AI tools for creating styles and illustrations and ultimately designing storyboards. In the final step, the storyboards will be developed into linear films or interactive sequences using animation programmes. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

In continuously offered individual meetings, students will have the opportunity to discuss their ongoing projects and address diverse questions related to their studies. These sessions aim to support the development of their practice from conception to realization. In addition, students are encouraged to reach out whenever they have questions or concerns. ---

The class offers an introduction to artistic research practices and provides an overview of the artistic PhD program at the HfK Bremen. Participants will have the opportunity to explore various approaches to artistic knowledge production and reflect on their own positions within research-based practices. The focus is on actively participating in the “PhD Colloquium” on January 15, where participants engage with ongoing PhD projects and contribute their own perspectives. An additional session (to be announced later) will offer space to share and discuss individual research questions.   Dates of the class: 15.01.2026 starting from 10 am and an additional session. --- Einstellung zum Selbst 15 October – 28 November 2025 Florian Wüst in collaboration with Daniel Neubacher (Videowerkstatt) Please see German version

For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development.   With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.    Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc.   [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] ---

As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.    Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc.   [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] ---

For the development of their Individuelles Mastervorhaben, students may join the scheduled plenums and individual meetings of the Temporary Spaces class program, which also includes other formats (workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, exhibitions) to support critical reflection, spatial exploration, and continuous development.   With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.    Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc.   [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] ---

With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis.   Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.  Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as  GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.****[/u] [u]Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] --- Ecological issues are omnipresent in contemporary art and design, as well as in philosophy and anthropology, including topics such as climate change, biospheres, recycling, and, in principle, the relationship between nature and culture. But it is not only since the current wave of environmental activism that the question of an alternative relationship to a nature that has been exploited, destroyed, scientized, and dominated by capitalism has been a fundamental theme in art as well as in philosophy and anthropology; it was already present in the Renaissance and the Baroque, in Romanticism and early modernism, and then especially in the art of the 1960s and 1970s up to the present. The seminar will examine case studies from this spectrum and read selected texts from philosophy and anthropology, for example by Philippe Descola, who argues more strongly than almost anyone else for overcoming Western anthropomorphism.

As part of the Integrierendes Projekt, students may choose to participate in the Temporary Spaces class program. Following a practice-based and research-oriented framework, the program includes workshops, lectures, excursions, reading groups, plenums, and a class exhibition. With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis. Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.    Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc.   [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] ---

With the aim to critically reflect space as a time-based and location-based category, Temporary Spaces class addresses historical, political, social, technological, and aesthetic aspects of our built environments and their material structures.  Beyond disciplinary conventions and boundaries, the class explores practices that include various media and experimentation with space, at different scales, from urban interventions to video, installation, performance, sound, and text. The works are research-based and engage with topics and methods ranging from site-specific approaches to historical finds, from feminist manifestos to queer theories, from critiques of modernism and standardization to socialist architectural utopias and urgent urban questions, such as the housing crisis.   Temporary Spaces is a platform for participatory feedback sessions that include collective readings and discussions. In regular gatherings, related to their particular ideas and practices, participants come together to discuss processes and approaches, work with other class members and guests and develop their own (or collective) projects and reflexive aesthetic experiences.  Throughout the semester, a series of presentations, lectures, and other inputs will support individual and collective development. In addition to regular meetings, compact workshops, exhibitions, and excursions are planned. Collective gatherings are in English. This semester in collaboration with the class of Practices and Politics of Representation, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Mona Mahall) we will visit a series of artist studios in Berlin.   Previously, the class have collaborated with and exhibited at institutions such as GAK Bremen, Pera Museum Istanbul, Großer Wasserspeicher Berlin, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, documenta fifteen, Sinop Biennial, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Top e.V. Berlin, theater.prekariat Stuttgart, Schwankhalle Bremen, Theater Bremen, Württembergischer Kunstverein, etc. [u]***Those who would like to take part in the Temporary Spaces program and plenum are invited to send an email by October 13, including their portfolio and a short statement about their interest in the class.**** Plenum: Thursdays starting from 10:00, Temporary Spaces Atelier 3.04.050 (Segment 4)[/u] ---

This module focuses on the development, curation, and presentation of the final BA project within the context of the Werkschau. Students will work on spatial, conceptual, and communicative aspects of their thesis presentation through individual consultations, group meetings, and collective exhibition planning. For a possible collaboration in this module, please contact me in advance. --- This module focuses on the development, curation, and presentation of the final BA project within the context of the Werkschau. Students will work on spatial, conceptual, and communicative aspects of their thesis presentation through individual consultations, group meetings, and collective exhibition planning. For a possible collaboration in this module, please contact me in advance.