
glass – hand formed matter
5 May -- 7 August 2022The international project “glass – hand formed matter” – backed by art colleges, glass factories and cultural institutions – aims to explore new perspectives for manual glass production in Germany and Europe. Glassmakers, artists, designers and students from Berlin and the German states Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia as well as from Finland and Sweden have been brought together to reinterpret and further develop the millennia-old craft of glassmaking.
In addition to fascinating new objects, the exhibition features films alongside semi-finished products and materials, making manufacturing processes visible and tangible respectively. The show also includes works by six project fellows (Anette Rose, Ingela Johansson, Tue Greenfort, Riikka Latva-Somppi und Un/Making Studio, Anu Penttinen und Helmi Remes, Boom!) and their artistic investigations of various aspects of glass: the material as well as its production.
A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.
Artistic director and curator of the exhibition: Barbara Schmidt, weißensee kunsthochschule berlin
Design of exhibition architecture: David Röder, supported by Barbara Schmidt and Steffen Schuhmann
Advertising design by weißensee kunsthochschule berlin, FG Visual Communication, Paula Meyer-Clason, using: Fluctus, design and photo by Elif Çak and Karl-Ferdinand Ludwig Neukirch, Still Life, Milla Vainio, photo: Inga Masche.
Elif Çak, Karl-Ferdinand-Ludwig Neukirch
Fluctus
Photo: Elif Çak, Karl-Ferdinand-Ludwig Neukirch
College: weißensee kunsthochschule berlinMira Niitymäki
Laineilla
Photo: Anne Kinnunen
College: Aalto University HelsinkiSimon Ertl, Julian Ribler
JIPS
Photo: Inga Masche
College: weißensee kunsthochschule berlinTue Greenfort
A Medusa Glass Study
Photo: Bernardo BuschThalea Schmalenberg
The Resonance of Raw
Photo: Inga Masche
College: weißensee kunsthochschule berlinMilla Vainio
Still Live
Photo: Anne Kinnunen
College: Aalto University HelsinkiMichelle Müller
Elements of Colour
Photo: Benardo Busch
College: weißensee kunsthochschule berlinAnne Hirvonen
Garden
Photo: Inga Masche
College: Aalto University HelsinkiSophie Langhorst
Tetris
Photo: Bernardo Busch
College: weißensee kunsthochschule berlinBOOM! (Artist group comprising: Ammy Olofsson, Nina Westman, Erika Kristofferson Bredberg, Matilda Kästel, Sara Lundkvist)
The Wheel of Future
Photo: Bernardo Busch