Artistic exploration of the second subject
: drawing, painting, mixed media

Exhibition in Lecture Theatre Block A14

20 December 2016 – 26 January 2017

Exploring their second degree subject in conjunction with art has inspired eleven students at the University of Oldenburg to create a diverse range of artistic works.

The exhibition ‘Zweifach’ is on display from 20 December 2016 to 26 January 2017 at the Lecture Theatre Centre (Haarentor campus, Building A14, Uhlhornsweg 86). The building is open on weekdays from 6.00 am to 8.00 pm.

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

A central theme in Christina Bloem’s work is key words from fairy tales, which inspire her to create objects from a wide variety of materials incorporating textual elements. The world of the poem ‘Jabberwocky’, from Lewis Carroll’s novel ‘Alice in Wonderland’, is equally fairy-tale-like; Franziska Schäfermeier has created a light and airy series of watercolour paintings inspired by it.

In a painting by Kay Langfeldt, philosophical trees of knowledge grow into the blue sky. In another of his works, a ‘capitalist’—reaching for the heavens in blind greed—plunges into the abyss, heading towards his inevitable downfall. Here, perhaps, the priest’s blessing from the realm of religion might offer some solace; Christina Korsten has created an installation and a reverse-glass painting on this theme.

Nina Kim Jordan creates forms inspired by thought and brain structures using delicate materials, which she stretches across transparent cubes. Syntax trees become objects in Insa Nanninga’s work, whilst cultural fabrics take the form of a drawing by Sabrina Stolz.

In Kristina Wedeken’s work, it is not abstract structures but three-dimensional book forms whose pages are folded in a highly sophisticated manner, so that the folds reveal book titles from world history.

Hendrikje Polkehn, on the other hand, creates minimalist drawings centred on the deconstruction and rearrangement of a T-shirt, drawing on her second subject, ‘Material Culture’.

Christina Seels’ works consist of monochrome three-dimensional models of various chemical elements, crafted from different materials. Christina Smirnova, on the other hand, creates colourful matryoshka dolls from papier-mâché, which seem to emerge from a surface that appears to form ever more matryoshka dolls.

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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