28. September 2024 - Ingo Vetter
Seit zwei Jahren beschäftigen wir uns mit der Kunst am Bau der Bremer Wohnungsbaugesellschaft GEWOBA. Zunächst mit einer Bestandsaufnahme bestehender Kunstwerke, die in einer Publikation zusammengestellt wurden, und dann mit Vorschlägen für neue Kunstwerke in den Großwohnsiedlungen. Vier Vorschläge von Studierenden werden als dauerhafte Werke realisiert.
Als erstes wurde „Fortschritt“ von Quin Maclennan in Huchting installiert.
Danach folgten die „Hasen“ von Kaori Tomita in Tenever.
Und „Look“ von Yuan Lin (Wendy) in Blockdiek.
Diese Woche abschließend „Pauline“ von Berit Riekemann in Bremerhaven-Lehe.
24. September 2024 - Ingo Vetter
Course programme winter semester 2024/25
Bi-weekly meetings during the winter semester, continuous exchange with professional artists from Europe and Asia, development of work sketches and artistic projects, excursion in mid-December.
MAP – „Month of Art Practice“ is an annual event organised by Heritage Space, an independent art space in Hanoi, Vietnam, where graduates of Vietnamese art academies meet with international artists to develop an exhibition together. As part of the research project „BreGoS – Bremen goes Sustainable“, the HfK is cooperating with Heritage Space and for three years the events will have a thematic focus on artistic perspectives on mobility.
In the project, a group of Bremen students will work together with professional artists on the topic of mobility and movement in particular and develop work sketches and artistic projects that can be realised during or after the end of the semester. In addition to meetings in Bremen, there will be a regular exchange via video conference with the colleagues in Hanoi.
Why and how are things, goods and people moved?
What artistic perspectives can/will we develop on this?
What artistic perspectives on mobility are there and what do we want?
As in the previous year, two international working groups will be formed on these topics in Bremen and Hanoi, which will meet bi-weekly during the winter semester of the HfK to exchange perspectives and working strategies, compare working concepts and put them up for discussion.
In Hanoi, a final exhibition is planned for the end of November; for Bremen, an excursion to the surrounding area lasting several days (mid-December) will mark the end of the project.
It will be two intensive months and you should have time to devote to the project. The number of participants is limited to 6 students in order to ensure a close exchange with the group in Hanoi. Online meetings to prepare for the exchange and international cooperation will take place during the lecture-free period on 22 August and 19 September at 11:00 am. Participation in these meetings is desirable and should be organised.
On the Bremen side, the 2024/25 project will be supervised by Felix Dreesen and Ingo Vetter, in Hanoi by Anh-Tuan Nguyen, the director of Heritage Space.
Information about MAP 2023, last year’s event on the homepages:
If you would like to take part in this course, please write a short and informal expression of interest by 20 August 2024, including examples of your previous artistic work at
felixdreesen@gmx.de and
i.vetter@hfk-bremen.de
24. September 2024 - Ingo Vetter
A workshop at HfK with Prof. Dr. Zafos Xagoraris from the Athens University of the Arts
An introduction includes historical examples of Avenues of Heroes, as well as cases of statues in motion. Avenues of Heroes exist in many countries and are routes along which statues, or busts of figures associated with the local history are placed. Sculptures like these or others are sometimes withdrawn due to political changes, moved for emergency reasons, or demolished.
Students are asked to design, or choose any object, gesture, mechanism, or sound. This set of ephemeral monuments could be installed outdoors or moved a short distance in a kind of suggestive procession. The successive images create a narrative, while a certain distance in the urban environment becomes a temporary inscription.
The course/workshop encourages students to discuss the relationship between history and contemporary artistic creation, the institutional role of art and its critique, and the expected or unexpected positions of artworks in the city.Zafos Xagoraris’s personal interpretations are presented, while students are invited to position themselves according to their personal work and research.
Zafos Xagoraris‚ artwork includes drawings, outdoor sound installations and reconstructions focusing on details of historical events. He has participated in exhibitions such as the 58th Venice Biennale, documenta14 (Athens and Kassel), the 4th Athens Biennale, Manifesta 7, the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale and the 27th São Paulo Biennial. He was one of the curators of the 2nd Athens Biennale and the 9th Venice Architecture Biennale. Zafos Xagoraris holds a Master’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, while his PhD thesis at the School of Architecture of the NTUA refers to the construction of miracles by Hero of Alexandria. He is a Professor at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
Workshop dates 23-25 October 2024 at Halle 2, Speicher XIA
Wednesday, 23. October 2024 from 2pm until 5pm – lecture and introduction to the topic
Thursday, 24. October 2024 from 10am until 1pm – propose objects, or elements related to your work and research
Friday, 25. October 2024 from 10am until 1pm – finalize the projects and temporary installation outdoors
Here are some pictures from the final presentation:
Klasse Ingo Vetter
Mein Forschungssemester ist vorüber und ich komme zurück an die HfK. Im Oktober werden die vier öffentlichen Kunstwerke eingeweiht, die im Reallabor Kunst am Bau entstanden sind. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die Publikation „aktiv dran vorbei“ … Weiterlesen...
