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In the 2024/2025 winter semester, three Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) students from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar had the rare opportunity to get to know six women who were incarcerated at the Chemnitz Prison and to carry out a photography project together. The results of this project will be exhibited on the outside wall of the Chemnitz Prison starting on 13 June 2025.

Natascha Tümpel, Promovendin des Promotionsstudienganges der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung, wurde für den zweiten Platz des Wissenschaftspreises 2025 der Gesellschaft für interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft e.V. (GIB) nominiert. Mit ihrer Einreichung, dem Aufsatz »Künstlerisches Prozesswissen im Bildgestalten« konnte sie sich im Wettbewerb der GIB gegenüber einer Vielzahl hochqualitativer Einreichungen als Zweitplatzierung durchsetzen.

Researchers at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar are required to clearly state their affiliation with the university in their publications. This reflects good academic practice and allows research to be clearly attributed, which ultimately supports the visibility of researchers and the university in the global research community. A set of regulations has been implemented that specifies how authors should properly indicate their affiliation with the university in their publications.

In the second »Sonic Talk« of the Semester on Tuesday, 10 June 2025, 19 h, Florencia Curci and Tatiana Heuman will present their artistic research project »SiestAria«. It revolves around listening as a method for accessing transitional states between sleep and wakefulness, and for reimagining rest and dreaming as ways of resisting the logics of urgency and optimization.

As part of the course »Queering Spaces«, a queer ephemeral archive will be created in the University Library of Weimar for Campus Pride Week and summaery2025. We are seeking artistic contributions that make queer knowledge and personal experiences visible. The works will be displayed in transparent acrylic boxes, entering into direct dialogue with the library’s holdings as forms of »lived experience«. Submissions are possible until Thursday, 12 June 2025.

With one Silver Nail and two Bronze Nails as well as two additional awards, design students from the Faculty of Art and Design have once again impressed at the renowned ADC Talent Award. The award-winning projects were designed in the Visuelle Kommunikation (Visual Communication) and Media Art and Design degree programmes and display a broad range of design and content, from biodiversity and typography to collective authorship, protest culture, and philosophically motivated forms of publication.

The »nova space« University Gallery is breaking new ground: With the »Liebe in Zeiten der Bürokratie« (love in times of bureaucracy) exhibition, it is relocating the classic exhibition space to somewhere you might least expect it – the offices of administrative staff. Tea kitchens and meeting rooms are also transformed into exhibition spaces, administrative staff become hosts, and works of art become flatmates in everyday office life. The exhibition will be accessible at set times as part of guided tours.

Welche Bedeutung hat ein Name für die eigene Identität? Und wie verändern sich Alltag und Selbstverständnis durch einen diversen Geschlechtseintrag? Diesen Fragen widmet sich der Film »Eintrag: Margit«, der am Donnerstag, 19. Juni 2025, 19 Uhr, in der ACC Galerie Weimar gezeigt wird. Im Anschluss findet ein moderierter Artist Talk mit dem Künstler* Jakob Margit Wirth und dem Filmemacher Vincent Jondeau statt.

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Renowned neuroscientist Wolf Singer will be a guest at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar on Tuesday, 27 May 2025 at 7 pm. With his public lecture on »Oszillationen, Wellen und Interferenzen als Lingua Franca der Großhirnrinde« (oscillations, waves, and interface as the lingua franca of the cerebral cortex), he will be opening his new lecture series »Sonic Talks«, which will focus on focus on rhythm, sound and healing in the 2025 summer semester.