The special exhibition of young artists from the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Saar (HBKsaar) delves into the enriching impact of mutual exchange.

Older works of art and historical objects can have a powerful effect. They become especially meaningful when we’re able to make a direct connection with them. And this often happens in a way that is not so different from the reception of the works intended centuries ago.

Students from the HBKsaar were fascinated by the pious, ecstatic or grotesque figures they encountered on a visit to the Bode-Museum. The mythological characters, the biblical sinners and saints triggered in them feelings of great distance but also closeness. These animated portrayals may indeed come from other times, but the old heroes and saints depicted were human – as we are today.

The young artists engaged in an intriguing dialogue with the human figures, discovering much about the present in these works that appeared strange or distant to them at first. They gained access to older art and reinterpreted it in installations, photo art, augmented reality and video, making the objects vivid, lively and experienceable in an unfamiliar way.

Participating Students from the HBKsaar

Mohammad Babaei, Clara Höferlin, Diana Kadochnikova, Nils Kammer, Haegang Lee, Thekla Lüken genannt Klaßen, Constanze Metzel, Anna Nau, Sarah Niecke, Melissa Pelk, Tamara Pick, Claudius Rodenbüsch, Heidrun Stern, Elisabeth Sunik und Jennifer Trenkel

Related Symposium on 14 February 2025

On Friday, 14 February 2025, in the Brugsch-Pascha-Saal (hall) on the Museumsinsel Berlin, the HBKsaar, in cooperation with the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), is hosting the Symposium “Kunst zur Wirkung bringen” (in German) which addresses curating, exhibiting and communicating as a segue to discussing the exhibition.

A special presentation of the Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art) – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with the HBKsaar – Hochschule für Bildende Künste Saar, with support from Saarland’s Ministerium für Bildung und Kultur (Ministry of Education and Culture) as part of the Bund-Länder-Kooperationen (Federal Exhibition Programme) of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.