Annual exhibition Einblick / Ausblick from 18 to 21 July

How do art and design students work and research? The Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel is opening its doors from Thursday 18 to Sunday 21 July for its annual exhibition “Einblick Ausblick “. During these days, studios, workshops, lecture theatres, studios and workspaces will be transformed into an exhibition covering around 10,000 square metres: guests can gain unique insights for four days with free admission: More than 600 students from the Fine Arts, Art for Teaching at Grammar Schools, Communication and Industrial Design and Spatial Strategies degree programmes will be showing the projects they have created during the academic year. Visitors to the art academy can find out about the artistic and creative work in art and design – the spectrum ranges from painting, drawing, photography, book design, video, sculpture and product design to multimedia installations.

The annual exhibition will be accompanied by a multi-day cultural programme organised by students: There will be concerts, DJ sets, performances, installations, theatre and film screenings, as well as hands-on activities for the whole family and an after-show party in the Bunker Club Kiel.
“Our annual exhibition Einblick/ Ausblick is a lavish celebration full of art and design,” says Arne Zerbst, President of the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design. “Our work in art and design is often a borderline journey, a walk on the edge, a treading of the unknown; our means: experimentation, testing new ideas and materials, artistic and creative research. As an art academy, we pave the way, we do iconic persuasive work for an open and better future! We are shaping the world of tomorrow – and want to show our perspectives to everyone who comes to us.”

On Thursday, 18 July, Arne Zerbst will officially open the annual exhibition in the inner courtyard of the art academy at 5 pm. During the opening, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) prize for outstanding achievements by international students at German universities will be awarded.
Opening hours: Thursday, 18 July, 5 p.m.: Opening in the inner courtyard of the Kunsthochschule on Legienstraße. All rooms (the Gallery Cubeplus at Knooper Weg 104, the Fine Arts rooms at Knooper Weg 75 behind Boesner and at Flämische Straße 6-10) will be open daily from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. after the opening and on the other exhibition days from Friday, 19 July to Sunday, 21 July.

Further links: einblickausblick.de/

16. July 2024 •

In Focus

The main goal of the Muthesius University in Kiel is to promote art, design and spatial strategies via research and development projects as a focal point for work and intellectual debates. As the only art university in the State of Schleswig-Holstein, the Muthesius is not only a place to develop culturally relevant biographies but with its project studies also a place of particular experimentation and realisation. To a certain extent, the profile of the Master’s programme represents study courses and development possibilities for students unique in the Federal Republic of Germany.

“At the centre of the Muthesius University’s focus is art and design, the creative and productive. Around this centre there revolves the fundamental relationship between theory and practice. This reciprocal relationship is a permanent process, a circular movement around the centre held by art and design. It needs free space to move. Thus, the firt condition for art and design at our university is freedom! To study at the Muthesius is the desire to use this freedom to mature into an equally creative and productive personality. In this way, we can provide our students with personal biographies”, promises President Dr. Arne Zerbst.

Around 630 study places are currently spread across the study courses in Fine Arts, Art Teaching at Grammar Schools, Scenography/Interior Design/Spatial Strategies, Communication Design and Industrial Design.

RESEARCH AND PROJECTS

Training and education at the Muthesius are project-oriented. Students are encourage early to gain experience with real clients. The Project Office, the Publication Office and the Centre for Media are interdisciplinary departments which help students to complete their projects successfully.
By particpating in the excellence clusters the Muthesius University is one of the internationally visible and competitive research institutes contributing to the sustainability of research in Germany. Numerous cooperation partners at local, national and international level appreciate the Muthesius University’s interdisciplinary structure and the personal atmosphere of the class sizes of a maximum to 20 students – an excellent basis for discourse leading to innovation.

INTERNATIONALITY

Each term, students and lecturers discuss national and international positions in art and design within the framework of interdisciplinary workshop weeks and internally organised, public symposia. International lecturers are always a part of these required courses. Young people from over 30 countries around the world come together in Kiel to study art and design. They make up 14 per cent of the student body, with an increasing tendency. This puts the Muthesius University above the national average.

WEBLOGS OF THE FIELDS OF STUDY (In German)

In order to make the variety of the Muthesius University more informative, in addition to the »official« information pages (the coloured half of the website) there are over 30 weblogs (the white half of this website) updated by the individual study courses/departments themselves (in German only).

 

SEMESTER TIMES

Winter Semester 2024/2025
Semester period: 01.10.2024 – 31.03.2025
Lecture period: 14.10.2024 – 14.02.2025
(Non-lecture period: 21.12.2024 – 06.01.2025)

Summer Semester 2025
Semester period: 01.04.2025 – 30.09.2025
Lecture period: 07.04.2025 – 25.07.2025