what is that invisible thing your arm is resting on

In the organizer's words:

Master students of the University of the Arts 2025

The exhibition of master students from the Bremen University of the Arts provides a diverse insight into current art production in the Hanseatic city. On the third level of the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, twelve artists present new works on over 800 square meters, opening up a dialogue about social and biographical ruptures, political transformation and personal empowerment - between the fundamental and the everyday, between the personal and the collective. The title what is that invisible thing your arm is resting on does not function exclusively as a question, but refers to the search for pictorial support, physical stability and an invisible, moral foundation.

The exhibition combines time-based works and extensive installations in which sculptural components are combined with sound and film elements. In addition, several sculptural positions take up forms that originate directly from a physical and biographical context. Other works are dedicated to the creation and experience of digital worlds and themes such as the melancholy of urban in-between places or voyeurism in social media.

In this multi-faceted network, the diffuse and the obvious often appear simultaneously. What is concealed or shown often determines the accidental in the medium itself. Just as the soft-focus video chat background seems to decide according to its own rules what remains recognizable, this exhibition also unfolds its own logic of visualization. Spatial and social context do not remain mere backdrops, but open up a place of self-questioning. What do we base ourselves on? What is our perception based on? And how fragile is that which holds us?

A particular highlight of the exhibition is the awarding of the Karin Hollweg Prize, one of the most important art promotion prizes for graduates of German art academies. With prize money of 18,000 euros, the prize is also linked to an institutional solo exhibition of the prizewinner in Bremen. The award is closely linked to the exhibition and underlines the close connection between the university and the city of Bremen.

A catalog will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Curated by Julian Lautenbach

Price information:

Adults 9 Euro Reduced 5 Euro