Reality Bites

Works by students from the aesthetic project of the same name

Opening of the exhibition on Sunday, 17 January, 11.15 a.m., as part of the New Year's reception at Volksbank Westrhauderfehn

The exhibition features 13 works that illuminate reality from a wide variety of angles and artistically depict it through painting, drawing, photography, installation and sculpture.

In two different projects, everyday objects are used and alienated so that they appear in new contexts or in oversized dimensions. The viewer must decide when the reality of these objects is lost and become something unreal through alienation. The reproduction of reality is thematised in three other works. One of these works refers to the distorted perception caused by reflections on a water surface, the second deals with the translation errors that inevitably occur in languages or artistic images and the third uses vanitas symbols, typical of the Baroque period, to depict death in our materialistic society. Furthermore, completely new realities are created in three other works: The sculpture of a zombie confronts the viewer with a character from science fiction films, the painting of a ghost town evokes a fractured reality and the installation, which is based on a peep-box, evokes the illusion of movement. Subjective reality is depicted in three other works. For example, one's own associations that arise when looking at various objects become important in one of these works, while one work deals with the subconscious reality that is usually difficult to grasp but makes itself felt in one's own dreams and another project deals with the neighbours outside one's own front door or windows - the backdrop is the neighbour's house, the studio is one's own kitchen. The print media, especially newspapers and advertising supplements, serve as the basis for the last two works. On the one hand, the documentation of reality in newspapers is scrutinised, which millions of people usually accept for breakfast in the morning without a second thought. On the other hand, both the product and the marketing level of the advertising inserts are critically analysed and presented in a collage.

The students and their works:

Miriam Blankenship: "Grüne Grenzgänge", painting

Dietmar Duprée: still undone, painting

Sabine Eisenbrand: "Newspaper - Document of Reality", painting, object

Felix Gackenholz: "Kolmannskuppe", painting

Marie Florentine Holte: "Real everyday reality?!", installation

Nina Koop: "Aesthetic reflections and reflections in reality", painting

Juliana Krücken and Malin Schweiger: "Alexanderstraße 39 (Social Reality)", photography

Nora Müller: "In Praise of Mistranslation - Mountains", painting, drawing

Anna-Katharina Oberstech: "Zombie", sculpture

Lisa Scholz: o.T., installation

Anna-Rabea Schulz: "Objects become art", object

Franziska Sieburger: still undone, painting

Silvia Szczodylo: "Fragments of reality as a means of design", collage

Lecturer: Norbert Bauer

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