The GAK Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst is proud to present works by students in the 2023 class of the master’s program at the University of the Arts Bremen (HfK). On the occasion of the exhibition, which is organized annually by a Bremen institution on a rotating basis, the Karin Hollweg Prize will award 18,000 euros to its recipient.
The one-year master’s program at HfK Bremen allows a small group of artists to explore their artistic practice in greater depth following the completion of their graduate studies. This year’s students are presenting their final projects in the collective show Happy Hours.
As a group, they provide a cross-media insight into the quality and diversity of current art production in Bremen. Rather than being assigned to a specific department, master’s students at HfK work together with professors from the Faculty of Fine Arts. They are connected by mutual exchanges as well as their shared engagement with the phenomena of a complex present. Their works address issues including identities and prevailing systems of knowledge, their modes of production, and their relationship to nature and the environment. As a result, the students open up spaces for reflection in a way that is equally poetic and critical.
They were supported in their degree by the HfK professors Heike Kati Barath, Stephan Baumkötter, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Katrin von Maltzahn, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Julika Rudelius, and Ingo Vetter.
Besides the exhibition rooms at the GAK, the 17 master’s students will also show their works in the project space at the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art and on the HfK event ship Dauerwelle—two additional venues located in our immediate vicinity.
The Karin Hollweg Prize is awarded annually on the occasion of the HfK master’s exhibition. It is one of the most valuable prizes awarded by an art academy in Germany. The prize is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Karin and Uwe Hollweg Foundation. The award is worth a total of 18,000 euros—half of which is paid directly to the prize-winner as prize money, while the other half is reserved for the realization of a solo exhibition.
Elfin Açar
Carleen Dawn Albrecht
Frauke Alina Becker
Miyeon Chung
Ren Evora
Eddie de Goër
Yeosulme Kang
Veranika Khatskevitch
Rebekka Kronsteiner
Hyunbok Lee
Ruth Lübke
Anne Moder
Jana Piotrowski
Paule Potulski
Ole Prietz
Renen
Hannah Wolf
Venues
Besides the exhibition rooms at the GAK, the 17 master’s students will also show their works in the project space at the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst and on the HfK event ship Dauerwelle—two additional venues located in our immediate vicinity..
Cooperation
HfK Hochschule für Künste Bremen and Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst
Events
Fri, 14.07.213, 19 h
Opening (Welcome and introduction at 20 h at the GAK)
With Daniel de Olano (Board of GAK), Prof. Dr. Mirjam Boggasch (Head teacher HfK Bremen), Ingo Vetter (Prof. HfK Bremen) as well as Annette Hans (Curator and director GAK)
Fri, 18.08.23, 19 h
Karin Hollweg Prize ceremony & launch of Meisterschüler*innen publication
We will inform you about further events besides the opening and award ceremony on our website, in our newsletter and via our social media channels
Funding
Der Senator für Kultur der Freien Hansestadt Bremen, Freundes- und Förderkreis der HfK Bremen, Waldemar Koch Stiftung Bremen, Karin und Uwe Hollweg Stiftung, Sparkasse Bremen, Dr. Christiane und Bernd Rogge Stiftung Bremen