Friends of the University of the Arts
The Friends of the University of the Arts - Karl Hofer Gesellschaft e. V. is a non-profit association in Berlin .
history
The association was founded in 1953 on the occasion of Karl Hofer's 75th birthday , but has only had the name since 1955. The founding members included Ernst Reuter , Otto Suhr and Joachim Tiburtius .
Purpose of the association
The Freundeskreis supports graduates of the Berlin University of the Arts with studio grants, awarding prizes, arranging exhibition opportunities and contacts. In addition to the young visual artists, students and graduates from the fields of music, design and performing arts are also supported. Around 700 members of the Freundeskreis, which bears the name of the first director of what was then the State University of Fine Arts, ensured that around 200 master class students at the University of the Arts were able to receive a studio scholarship two years after completing their training.
Studios
The first studios were on Rheinstrasse in Friedenau . This was followed in 1987/88 by the artist workshop with seven studios in the former Berlin-Westend train station, with the expansion of funding activities to include music and the performing arts. Although the studios were not closed until the end of 2001, the Freundeskreis was able to move into a newly expanded studio floor with an adjoining gallery in a former factory building as early as 1997. An essential goal of the association, the exchange with international artists and art institutions, can now be continued under much better conditions. The 14 studios and the associated gallery with a total of 1200 square meters offer scholarship holders and guests excellent working conditions. In the urban environment of the once important industrial location Oberschöneweide in south-east Berlin, the association offers an “artist-in-residence program” for guests from Germany and abroad. The main focus of the presentations in the gallery are exhibitions of international guests, experimental projects and interdisciplinary, media-oriented art with students and graduates from the Berlin University of the Arts.
Prices
The Circle of Friends awards or looks after the following prizes
- Karl Hofer scholarships
- IBB Prize for Photography
- JIB Jazz Prize
- Art and construct
Board
The chairman of the board is Karlheinz Lüdeking. The board also includes Detlef Untermann, Harald Wiedmann as deputy chairpersons and, ex officio, University President Martin Rennert, as well as assessors Hilke Masche, Christiane Möbus and Britta Schmitz.
Exhibitions
The positions of the studio scholars of a year will be presented together in a final exhibition. The 2008–2010 exhibition ran under the programmatic title “Change of Subject” and was curated by Isabelle Meiffert. The 2010–2012 exhibition ran in the municipal gallery in Charlottenburg under the title "vice versa".
The scholarship holders
- Scholarship holders 2008–2010: Kaya Behkalam, Katarzyna Belski-Urban, Andrea Damp, Peter Dobroschke, Yulia Kazakova, Simon Menner, Vladimir Mitrev, Achim Riethmann, Maya Schweizer, Yukiko Terada, Alexander Wagner , Sinta Werner.
- Scholarship holders 2010–2012: Clara Bahlsen, Lise Chevalier, Antje Engelmann, Dana Engfer, Nadine Fecht, Carla Mercedes Hihn, Cyrill Lachauer, Sophia Pompéry, Jovana Popic, Gabriel Rossell-Santillàn, Bosse Sudenburg, Benedikt Terwiel.
Web links
- Official homepage of the Friends of the Berlin University of the Arts
- Karl Hofer Society . In: Bezirkslexikon on berlin.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Hofer Scholarships. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ IBB Prize for Photography. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ JIB Jazz Prize. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Art & Construct. Retrieved September 2, 2018 .
- ↑ About the association. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .