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New management of the Faculty of Art and Design confirmed
Prof. Dr. Jutta Emes, interim president of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, has confirmed the newly elected Team of the Faculty management. In addition to Dean Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend, Prof. Björn Dahlem has been appointed Dean of Studies, Prof. Dr. Andrea Dreyer Vice Dean for Strategic Development and Prof. Dr. Jan Willmann Vice Dean for Research.
About Prof. Björn Dahlem, Dean of Studies
Björn Dahlem is Professor of Sculpture, Object, Installation at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and graduated with a diploma and master's degree. Dahlem was a Research Fellow of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. and Cambridge (MA) in 2008/2009.
He has become internationally known for his large, expansive sculptures and installations, which take their origin in complex scientific theories and the associated images and fictions of world explanation and utopia. Since 1999, he has realised a large number of exhibition projects in leading museums, institutions and galleries in Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. This year he is participating in the Milano Triennale. His works are part of important public art collections such as the Saatchii Gallery, London, the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. Björn Dahlem is the author of the artist monographs Superspace (2001), The Theory of Heaven (2010), The End of it All (2014) and Mare Lunaris (2017).
»Art is the great experiment in making the improbable probable.«
About Prof. Dr. Andrea Dreyer, Vice Dean for Strategic Development
Andrea Dreyer was appointed Junior Professor for »Art and its Didactics« at the Faculty of Art and Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2008, before the Professorship was made permanent in 2013. Her fields of work and research focus on the examination of art pedagogical professionalism, research-based learning and building cultural education. As Dean of Studies, she supported the faculty management from 2009 to 2011 and from 2014 to 2019. Andrea Dreyer served on the university management as Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching from 2011 to 2014. Most recently, she was a member of the Senate of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
»I am looking forward to working again in the faculty management and, taking into account the interests of all faculty members, I hope to support the Faculty of Art and Design in its development tasks and to represent its strategic interests in a well-founded way vis-à-vis other faculties, the presidium and the Free State of Thuringiga.«
About Prof. Dr. Jan Willmann, Vice Dean for Research
Jan Willmann studied architecture at Oxford, obtained his doctorate under Bart Lootsma in Innsbruck and then established central research foci as a senior assistant at ETH Zurich before being initially appointed junior professor »History and Theory of Design« at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in 2016. Three years later, his Professorship of the same name was made permanent. In his research, a central focus is on contemporary design cultures and the bringing together of theory, empiricism and practice, with a particular emphasis on digital and transformational perspectives.
»I am delighted to be able to support the faculty in the further development of its research profile. A key focus will be on both strengthening existing research priorities and launching new research projects. I am particularly keen on collaborating with the other faculties and developing interdisciplinary initiatives.«
Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend, Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design
»Since the founding of the Faculty of Art and Design, we have been living a teaching concept that has proven to be the most modern instrument of education today: project- and problem-oriented thinking and acting, interdisciplinary work, holistic approach, individual supervision of students in cross-year groups - flipped class room,« emphasises the new Dean Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend.
»In art and design, hand, heart and mind are equal sources of knowledge. I love working with sensitive people who create their results with body and mind. We develop our results in steps and on models. The contradictory, the inadequate and the provisional are accepted as part of the work. Our models not only illustrate our current knowledge and skills - they also create new ones. The basis of our arguments is: Intensity.
I look forward to representing our way(s) of working as Dean.«