The Kulturstipendium [Karlsruhe Cultural Scholarship] is awarded every two years alternately to graduates of the three artistic universities in Karlsruhe – Karlsruhe University of Music, Karlsruhe State Academy of Fine Arts and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). In 2022, HfG graduates Vera Gärtner and Leonie Mühlen received the 20,000 euro cultural scholarship from the City of Karlsruhe. They are now exhibiting their current work in the Forum of the Städtsiche Galerie Karlsruhe (SGK).
Vera Gärtner: Stadt als Palimpsest
Vera Gärtner’s artistic questions revolve around social issues, in particular queer and intersectional-feminist topics. In her interdisciplinary approach, she focuses on the overlooked. This is particularly evident in her preoccupation with the characteristics of secluded places and refuges in urban space. In doing so, she ventures into curatorial experiments, designs anti-hierarchical conference architectures or sets off on activist walks. Together with Mio Kojima and Hanna Müller, she presented the project Whose Stories, supported by the UNESCO City of Media Arts Karlsruhe Project Funding Program for Media Art, at three different locations in Karlsruhe from 15 August to 15 September 2024 as part of the exhibition Media art is here.
Leonie Mühlen: Meine Augen sind zwei Tauben – Est-ce que tu me vois?
In her research, Leonie Mühlen moves along the border between urban and natural spaces. Her installative works are composed of ongoing observations, collected narratives and performative interventions. Her works usually give space to fragile things that often deal with basic needs: living spaces, dwellings or displacement, food, community and memory.
Opening on Friday, September 20, 2024 at 7 p.m.
The exhibition can be seen in the SGK project room and is accessible free of charge. On October 17 and November 7, a short guided tour with Christina Korzen, curator of the SGK, will take place at 5 p.m.
Further information here.