Lecturers
Heike Kati Barath.
Heike Kati Barath (*1966) paints and lives in Berlin. Since she graduated at the University of Fine Arts Münster her works have been exhibited across Germany, Europe, New York and San Francisco. She is recipient of grants and awards including the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Preis für Malerei der Stadt Hagen and the Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn. Barath´s work is represented in private, corporate and public collections in Germany and Switzerland. Since 2012 she is a Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Marion Bösen.
1958 I was born in Clüversborstel/Germany, now living in Bremen. From 1983 - 89 I was studying Fine Art at the University of the Arts Bremen, since then I am working as an artist. My printmaking works include photo documentary collections of subjects and objects from daily life. I had regularly solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, also I am working in the team of a nonprofit producer gallery Herold, Güterbahnhof Bremen.
Lee Scott.
Lee Scotthempson is a multi-media artist with a broad range of interests bouncing between painting, sculpture, animation, cell-phone video, and poetry. In essence her work is a bricolage, and she plays with the spaces between art, writing and design. Her practices have come to encompass a variety of ways to portray her understanding (or lack thereof), of the absurdity of humanity and are a reaction to an array of social dis-illusions; some situated in humor and others a little more fist-to-the-gut like.
Ulrike Isenberg.
Born 1952, trained nurse, Film student, Film maker, Camera and sound for cinema and TV films, Workshop management for film and animation at the University for the Arts in Berlin and Bremen, Animationworkshops in my own animation studio with kindergardens, schools, refugees, disabled people and Adults.https://trick47.de/
Annette Geiger.
Annette Geiger is professor of theory and history of art and design at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. After studying communication science, art history and cultural studies in Berlin, Grenoble and Paris, she completed her doctorate thesis Urbild und fotografischer Blick (Munich, 2004) on aesthetics and image theory in the 18th century. Currently she is working on visual narratives in global exchange and the esthetics of high&low in transcultural persectives. Recent publications: Andersmöglichsein. Zur Ästhetik des Designs. Bielefeld, 2018, Piktogrammatik. Grafisches Gestalten als Weltwissen und Bilderordnung. (ed. with B. Holtschke) Bielefeld, 2021.
Themba Shibase.
… is based in Durban, South Africa.
Kiara Gounder.
I developed a curiosity for fashion artefacting, 3D prototyping and digital technologies as an undergraduate fashion student in 2014. My 3D printed work has since been featured in numerous publications such as The Sunday Times, ELLE Magazine, Visi and Creative Feel. My latest capsule collection, Mutari Corpora, is a fashion interpretation of animal anatomy indigenous to Southern Africa presented as adornment for the female body. I currently lecture Fashion Theory and Computer Aided Design in the Department of Fashion and Textiles at The Durban University of Technology.
Patricia Lambertus.
Patricia Lambertus studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Bremen and graduated in 2004 as a master student. Since then she received numerous scholarships and prizes and her works are shown in several international museums and Kunstvereine. 2014 she started lecturing and teaching at various universities and art schools.
Lorenz Potthast.
Lorenz Potthast was born 1990 in Bremen, Germany. He studied Integrated Design and Digital Media at the University of Arts Bremen. He worked at BAT Centre in Durban South Africa and co-initiated MEET YOUR NEIGHBOURS platform for intercultural exchange. Currently he works as independent Media Artist, as a co-founding member of the Collective for Audio-Visual Art Xenorama and as coordinator of the Digital Impact Lab in Bremen. His works were exhibited worldwide, awared with various awards and he is frequently giving lectures and workshops at different occations.
Chris de Beer.
I lecture Jewellery Design, and approach it from a contemporary Jewellery perspective. This means that my focus is on using traditional Jewellery manufacturing skills to engage with current social, artistic and technical trends. I encourage an autoethnographic approach, making sense of the world by examining the relationship between what one experiences and what is happening in one’s social ethnic context. Hence my interest in the journal as a way to keep track, and contextualise experiences. Since 1988 Currently Head of Fine Art and Jewellery Design Department.
Nicolaas Cloete Human.
Nicolaas Human is a permanent academic staff member at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) since 2016. He currently occupies the position as Head of Department in Visual Communication Design and Programme Coordinator of Graphic Design. He created and exhibited paintings that resulted in some awards, such as being a grand prize winner of an online art challenge by the celebrated historical painter, James Gurney.
Organization
Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh.
Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh has a MA in Literary Studies, History, and Education from TU Dresden and Georgetown University. Before joining HfK as Head of Research Development and lecturer in 2019, she held positions as research fellow and lecturer at universities in Zurich, Palermo, and at LMU Munich from which she received her Dr. phil. with a study on semantics and narrative constructions of time in premodern literature. She continued her research in the USA, working and teaching at the Department of German and of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, publishing on topics such as history of knowledge, textual criticsm, historical anthropology and historical semantics.
Students
Bissan Badran.
Bissan Badran is an enrolled student in the diploma program at the University of Arts Bremen. Since 2018, she has been studying in Prof. Heike Kati Barath’s painting class. Her primary focus is on painting, with a particular passion for textile-related artworks. Bissan has curated a growing portfolio showcased in various exhibitions.
Exhibition Highlights: 2024 The Fascination Cave, Paula Modersohn Becker Museum; 2023 Something Happened, P43 Projekt Raum, Berlin; Die Erben Wilhelm Morgners, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest; 2022 Elysee Prize for Painting, Elysee Galerie, Hamburg; 2021 Zwischen Gegenständlichkeit und Abstraktion, Junge Kunst im Dialog mit Künstlern der Klassischen Moderne, Kunstverein Soest
Ren Evora.
Born in Hannover, studied Integrated Design and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen. finished the bachelor's degree and is currently in the master's program. The relations that evolve between human nature technology and us definition of absence simultaneousness of closeness and distance the distance to something that is there the presence of something that is not.
Kira Ronja Häring.
Born in Berlin, in 1995. Studies communication design since 2017 in Potsdam. In 2019 55 weeks internship at Frauke Albers workspace. 2020 changed Universities and now I am studying in Bremen at the HfK. I am working with illustrations, preferably combining analog and digital. I am working with illustrations, preferably combining analog and digital. With the start of my internship I also fell in love with ceramics and I am trying to combine these two fields with each other.
Shoji Matsumoto.
Born in 1986 in Kagawa, Japan. Currently studies Fine Art at University of the Arts Bremen. Lives and works in Bremen, Germany.
Through my artistic approaches I would like to explore the possibilities how we could celebrate ourselves being here in this period, even if we are confronted with great hardships. Iattempted to use digital images to present the line between truth and falsehood.
Londeka Mseleku.
My name is Londeka Mseleku. I study Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology, where I have served as an Art Theory tutor for first-year students and interned under my Head of Department for a year. My focus was on printmaking and ceramics, and I also taught myself digital art.
John Sempe.
Student of the DUT
Michael Weis.
Born in 1978 in Würzburg, I currently live and work in Bremen. Since 2018, I have been studying at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK Bremen). In 2024, I graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Integrated Design and am now pursuing further studies in Fine Art. I create handmade animated films using various techniques in my self-built animation studio.
Manqoba Bhengu.
Manqoba Bhengu was born and raised in Durban, KwaZuluNatal. Manqoba is currently studying Fine Art at DUT. Bhengu has interested in art since He was young. In 2016 he completed his matric and went to eThekwini College to study Graphic design from 2017 to 2018. Then he decided to pursue Diploma in Fine Art at DUT in 2019.
Manqoba has been exhibited his work in numerous exhibition, KWANDE FEST 2022. His work was also included in Legacy Yard Umhlanga first Thursday art show. Group Exhibition ‘’My First Love'' online 2022. KZNSA Annual Members group exhibition “After” 2022. Group exhibition “The stories.za” The Gallery in Ballito 2023. KZNSA Group exhibition ”post “ 2023.
Bianca Govender.
* 2000, South Africa. Bianca completed her Diploma and Advanced Diploma in Fashion Design at the Durban University of Technology. In May 2024, she graduated with an Advanced Diploma in Fashion (Cum Laude and Dean’s Merit Award). In 2022 the fashion students exhibited their final collections, where she was awarded Most Innovative Range 2022. Bianca tradionally stitches various fabrics into minimal, yet bold garments. Through her minimalistic pieces, she aims to tell stories and convey emotion. As Bianca brings her ideas to life, she is also zealous about the design process, and loves building mood boards, working on illustrations, and creating prints for her garments. Bianca enjoys researching new concepts and learning about different cultures.
Sihle Inensiko.
Student of the Durban University of Technology, Durban, Diploma in Fine Art 2019 (currently in my final year), Exhibitions: 2016 Group Exhibition, Empangeni High School Hall Empangen, 2017 Digi Fest / Final year exhibition DUT (City Campus) 2018 Group Exhibition Durban BAT Center, 2018 Group exhibition DUT Gallery, 2019 Graduate Group exhibition Durban Art Gallery, Durban
Lindiwe Mbambalala.
I am Lindiwe Mbambalala, currently doing my 2nd year level in Fine Art, Durban University of Technology (DUT). I major in Painting and Sculpture. In 2018, I obtained a National Certificate (N6) in Art and Design at College of Cape Town, there in I majored in Graphic Design and Graphic Processes. In July 2020, Women in Mining SA (WIMSA) commissioned me to produce a portrait of a women who is a mine worker.
Silindubuhle Mbele.
My name is Silindubuhle Mbele, 20 years of age. I am currently in university doing my second year in Fine Art at Durban University of Technology. I am a very determined individual who is very talented and hardworking.
Martha Skorupa.
Born in Dresden in 1997. I have been studying Integrated Design BA since 2019. For a long time I worked with moving images, drawing and illustration. In my Bachelor's thesis I explored the field of textile design, which was completely new to me. I finally graduated 2024.
Exhibitions: Stell' dir vor du bist 'ne Tuba, Café Lagom, Bremen, Germany, 2023; Something happened, KZNSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa, 2022; Summer School, Dauerwelle, Bremen, Germany, 2022
Jess Bothma.
Sculptor / Writer
I’m a South African, Durban based sculptor and writer. I studied Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) where I’m currently enrolled in a master’s program. I have previously engaged in a number of industry apprenticeships which have greatly contributed to my technical and conceptual training. My creative production involves sculpture, drawing and writing and my themes and language explore; identity (place and people in South Africa), memory, history, dreams, power, gender, the environment and materials as metaphors.
Anastassia Guzenkova.
1997 born in Russia. 2014 Interested in Human Rights. 2017 Participation in peaceful protests against corruption, violence and injustice. 2019 Studying at the Bremen University of the Arts. 2021-Artistic engagement in animation workshops with children and adults at TrickFilm47 Studio, Güterbahnhof, Bremen. 2022 Anti-War-Exhibition „Fear:in Russia in jails, in Ukraine –dying.“ Dauerwelle, Bremen. 2023 Anti-War-Exhibition „Nein zum Krieg. No to war. Нет войне.” Villa Ichon, Bremen.
https://www.instagram.com/canishowsmth - aguzenkova@hfk-bremen.de
Eghbal Joudi.
Student of HFK
Zandile Nqobile Mbhele.
Student of the DUT
Camila Mejia Murillo.
Born in Bogotá Colombia in 1989. After finishing school in 2006, she began to study Foreign Languages and Sociocultural Studies at the University Los Andes in Bogotá. In 2011 she had to break her studies because of personal reason. After that she worked as Au Pair in Frankfurt, Germany. Currently she is a student of Integrated Design at the University of the Arts Bremen since October 2017.
Haruka Mogi.
1989 born in Tokyo, Japan, STUDIES: 2007-2012 Bachelor of Arts in History, Sophia (Johchi) University, Tokyo, Japan, since 2018 Fine Art, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany.
In my paintings and sculptures, I deal with the portrait. As motifs, I mainly choose clothes, fabric, people and other living beings that can also be imaginary.
Jo* Szymanski.
Born 1979 in Munich, Germany. I have started studying Fine Arts at university of Fine Arts Ottersberg with Prof. Jochen Stenschcke in 2017. Currently I am studying Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Bremen with Prof. Heike Kati Barath. Since 2009 I am part of the Artcollective 3B which focuses on silkscreen. In late 2017 I had the opportunity to exhibit works of a common art process in Museo de Arte contemporaneo Maczul Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Julia Whitby.
Student of the DUT