How much do we define ourselves through our leisure activities alongside work? How have digitalisation and the coronavirus pandemic changed our relationship to hobbies? The student exhibition frei|zeit sheds light on this until 2 April.
Nine students from the "Museum and Exhibition" Master's degree programme have designed the show under the direction of cultural scientist Prof. Dr Karen Ellwanger and the director of the Horst Janssen Museum, Dr Jutta Moster-Hoos. "We want to invite dialogue. In the exhibition, visitors can discuss the importance of their leisure activities," say the students involved, Mara Woltering and Maxie Kiwitter. "The sense and nonsense of hobbies" is the subtitle of the exhibition at Staustraße 16 in Oldenburg city centre.
In co-operation with "Raum auf Zeit", the students are using the vacant former rooms of "Photo Dose". The frei|zeit exhibition is open from Monday to Saturday between 12.00 and 19.00 - subject to changes due to the pandemic.
This includes a supporting programme with four events: On Wednesday, 23 March, 6.30 pm, the exhibition team invites you to a free film evening at "Cine k" in Bahnhofstraße, on Friday, 25 March, interested parties can get a taste of the unusual hobby of archaeology in the exhibition rooms from 7.00 pm. On Wednesday, 30 March at 7 p.m., it's time to bring your painting and craft supplies and get creative together, and on Saturday, 1 April from 6 p.m., the students are planning a panel discussion on the necessity of hobbies in a meritocracy. They are asking the question: "Why can't we (just) do what we want?"
This year, the central study project of the Master's programme "Museum and Exhibition" is sponsored by the Universitätsgesellschaft Oldenburg e.V. (UGO) and the EWE Foundation.
