BALLUNGSGEBIET - Exhibition Klasse Dahlem
Project information
submitted by
Klasse Dahlem
Co-Authors
Ayla Aoki, Martina Aumüller, Lilly Braatz, Eila Boldt, Luisa Bringmann, Lars Blum, Sonya Egorova, Paula Franke, David Frommhold, Hein Henkel, Romi Kröner, Enrico Leppla, Mathias Lorenz, Charlotte Martens, Lara Mohring-Landsberger, Nina Sophie Raach, Sina Robering, Claudius Seiter, Bastian Schwerer, Karin Schön, Michal Szczelina, Lori Usai
Mentors
Björn Dahlem, Karla Zipfel
Faculty:
Art and Design
Degree programme:
Fine Art (Diploma)
Type of project presentation
Exhibition
Semester
Sommersemester2025
- Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 - Van-de-Velde-Bau
(002) - Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 11 - HALLE
- Marienstraße 7a
(003) - Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 7 - Van-de-Velde-Bau
(002) - Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 11 - HALLE
- Marienstraße 7a
(003)
Available during summaery opening hours
Project description
The equator runs straight through Gelsenkirchen. If you don’t believe it, come and measure for yourself. Right in the middle of the campus, the Schmidt Refreshment Hall becomes the center of university life – and all paths lead from here to the workspaces of Klasse Dahlem, which invites you to this year’s Summaery under the title Ballungsgebiet
Whether things, people, materials, sounds, or stories – in the Ballungsgebiet, everything revolves around density. Here, everything is interconnected, forced to relate to one another; proximity becomes the starting point for encounters, for friction, for movement. Centers of density are never silent – they pulse, they breathe, they struggle for order or deliberately abandon it. Units and networks emerge from contrasts: contrasts between individuals and the masses, between structure and overlap, between openness and overload. Multiplicity must be endured.
But where density occurs, displacement looms. What becomes visible when space becomes scarce? What is allowed to be seen, and what disappears?
Klasse Dahlem, with its focus on free, site-specific artistic practice, opens its doors once again. On view are works ranging from sculpture, object, and installation to other common artistic media and their spatial negotiations.