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The university gallery »nova space« of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar invites you to the opening of the exhibition »Wo ist der Morgen, den wir gestern sahen?« on Thursday, August 22, 2024, from 4 pm. The exhibition shows works by students, university lecturers and external positions that deal with the fragile state of ideas of future visions, the vacuum, the interspaces and -tones, scenarios and snapshots when systems threaten to collapse.

Mit der Landtagswahl am 1. September endet für Thüringen das Superwahljahr 2024. Wie können Bürger*innen zum Wählen – und damit zur demokratischen Mitbestimmung – motiviert werden? Dazu haben sich in diesem Jahr Institutionen und Initiativen verstärkt Gedanken gemacht. So auch zwei Professuren des Studiengangs Visuelle Kommunikation der Fakultät Kunst und Gestaltung an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Gabriella Parra Sánchez, a student at at the Faculty of Art and Design, was selected as the winner of this year’s Beatrice Warde Scholarship, sponsored by Monotype. The $5,000 scholarship recognizes a female-identifying college student globally in their next-to-last year of undergraduate study whose work demonstrates exceptional talent, sophistication, and skill in the use of typography across current media.

Isaac Chong Wai, a graduate of the international Master's degree programme »Public Art and New Artistic Strategies«, has been awarded the City of Nordhorn Art Prize 2024. The prize has been awarded annually since 1979 to artists who have currently attracted attention with a fresh and nationally significant work.

On 21 July 2024, the German-language version of the Gesamtkunstwerk »Das graue Tuch« will premiere at the Zeiss Planetarium Jena. The immersive 360-degree fulldome show, created under the direction of Hon. Prof. Micky Remann with students from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, promises a spectacular performance with live theatre and orchestra.

A wonderful and exhilarating summaery2024 with over 160 projects lies behind us. More than 5,000 visitors took the chance to get to know our university, explore the current projects, ideas and work of students and teaching staff and celebrate the end of the academic year with us. Our photographers Dominique Wollniok, Thomas Müller and Matthias Eckert were out and about documenting exhibitions, events and the atmosphere on site. Have fun looking back!

Freie Kunst graduate Maria Fabricius-Wendt was awarded the »Lyonel Kunstpreis 2024« on Friday, 12 July 2024. The award, which honours the final projects of up-and-coming talent in the Faculty of Art and Design and comes with a 2,000 euro prize, has conferred by »Lyonel – Verein zur Förderung von Kunst, Gestaltung und Kultur (Lyonel e.V.)« since 2019.

The online gallery »Traces of REcreation« shows 16 bachelor's and master's theses from the product design programme that were created in the winter semester 2023/24 and summer semester 2024. The graduates have worked individually or in teams on current and relevant topics such as mobility, material design, industrial design and social and critical design. The works can also be visited on site in Weimar from 11 to 14 July 2024 for summaery2024, the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar's annual exhibition.

Von Donnerstag, 11. Juli bis Sonntag, 21. Juli 2024, ist die immersive Soundinstallation »of gust and moist« im Leipziger Zentrum für Immersive Medienkunst, Musik und Technologie zu sehen. In der Ausstellung treten die zwei Installationen »Whiskers in Space« und »Pluvial« in Dialog, die sich mit der Vermessung und Wahrnehmung von natürlichen Phänomenen und der Selbst-Positionierung und dem Ort von uns Menschen innerhalb dieses Beziehungsgefüges beschäftigen.

For this year's annual exhibition, students at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar often present their projects in unusual locations away from the campus. In addition to the art and design exhibition spaces in the historic Van de Velde ensemble and Marienstraße, summaery2024 will also feature completely new venues. This year, for example, passers-by can experience textile art at the train station in Apolda or immerse themselves in democracy campaigns in the Weimar shopping mall »Atrium«.