MAP 2024 – Movement

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