Workshops
Garmenting.
Lecture, curated exhibition and workshop with Kiara Gounder and Lee Scott
Beadwork.
Workshop with Chris de Beer
Studio time.
experimenting and working
Talks
The Grotesque in Art and Fashion Design.
Talk with Annette Geiger
‘Garmenting’ refers to the use of body and dress as the foundation for artistic expression.
Lecture with Kiara Gounder and Lee Scott
Singing & Storytelling.
Lecture with Gcina Mhlophe
Decolonizing Art History for South African students.
Lecture with Thembe Shibase
Excursions & Studio Visits
Andries Botha, Jess Bothma & Ernest Ngcobo.
Studio Visits
Kenneth Stainbank Reserve & Mary Stainbank Memorial Gallery.
Field Trip
Phansi Museum, uBuntu-art Museum.
Visit
KZNSA Gallery & Durban Art Gallery.
Visit
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.
contact us.
hk.barath@hfk-bremen.de
Hochschule für Künste Bremen: https://www.hfk-bremen.de
Durben University of Technology: https://www.dut.ac.za
Information.
In May and August 2022, the DAAD-funded exchange program between the Bremen University of the Arts (HfK) and the Durban University of Technology (DUT) took place in Bremen and Durban: Nine students and four lecturers from DUT came to Bremen in May 2022 and nine students and five lecturers traveled to Durban in August. The two-week stays were a valuable opportunity for the students and lecturers to gain new insights and experiences - culturally and artistically. The main objectives of the program were to promote intercultural exchange and to get to know diverse approaches in art and design. Interdisciplinary cooperation, the exchange of knowledge, encounters with local artists, new working techniques with media and materials, the experience of other cultures and transcultural perspectives were promoted in the long term.
We were able to see, hear and feel the effects of South Africa's history, shaped by colonialism and apartheid, to this day - in a completely different way than would be possible through the media and reports. During the two weeks in the other country, the students took part in a wide range of activities that were specially designed for them: Workshops, studio visits, lectures, group discussions, excursions, sightseeing and eating together.
The highlight of the two-week stay was the final exhibitions on the exhibition ship Dauerwelle in Bremen and in the KZNSA Gallery in Durban. Together, we installed the artistic works created by the participating students on site. The exhibitions gave the students the opportunity to present their works to the public and to come into contact with the visitors to the exhibition.
From the experiences and knowledge transfer, the techniques learned and the encounters, new skills and knowledge developed, which the students can now apply to their own work. The two-week trip to Durban could not have taken place without the support of various private individuals and institutions.