Artistic exploration of the second subject
Drawing, painting, mixed media

Exhibition in lecture theatre building A14

20.12.16 - 26.1.17

The exploration of their second subject in conjunction with art has inspired eleven students at the University of Oldenburg to create a wide range of artistic works.

The exhibition "Zweifach" can be seen from 20 December 2016 to 26 January 2017 in the Hörsaalzentrum (Haarentor campus, building A14, Uhlhornsweg 86). The building is open on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The works were created last summer semester under the direction of lecturer Natascha Kaßner from the Institute of Art and Visual Culture.

The central reference in Christina Bloem's work is key words from fairy tales, to which objects made of a wide variety of materials with word elements are created. The world of the poem "Jabberwocky", from Carol Lewis' novel "Alice in Wonderland", to which Franziska Schäfermeier has painted an airy series of watercolours, is also fairytale-like.

Philosophical trees of knowledge grow into the blue sky in a painting by Kay Langfeldt. In another of his works, a "capitalist" reaching for the sky with blind greed climbs into the abyss, towards the inevitable fall. Perhaps the priestly blessing from the field of religion could help here, for which Christina Korsten has developed an installation and a reverse glass painting.

Nina Kim Jordan develops forms from filigree materials for thought and brain structures, which she stretches into transparent object cubes. Insa Nanninga turns syntax trees into objects and cultural fabrics into a drawing by Sabrina Stolz.

Kristina Wedeken's works are not abstract structures, but sculptural book bodies whose pages are folded in a highly sophisticated way so that book titles from world history can be read from the folds.

Hendrikje Polkehn, on the other hand, develops minimalist drawings that deconstruct and rearrange a T-shirt as a reference to her second subject "Material Culture".

Monochrome sculptural models of various chemical elements made from different materials are the works of Christina Seel. Christina Smirnova, on the other hand, builds colourful Matryoshkas out of papier-mâché, which seem to emerge from a surface that seems to form more and more Matryoshkas.

Participating students:
Christina Bloem, Kim-Nina Jordan, Christina Korsten, Kay Langfeldt, Insa Nanninga, Hendrikje Polkehn, Franziska Schäfermeier, Christina Seel, Kristina Smirnova, Sabrina Stolz, Christina Wedeken,

Contact:
Natascha Kaßner, Institute of Art and Visual Culture, Tel.: 0441/798-4693, Email: natascha.kassner@uol.de

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