DAAD Art Show

Every year, the German Academic Exchange Service grants a number of scholar- ships to German art students and thereby enables them to follow postgraduate courses in London. The DAAD Art Show is an annual celebration of the work produced during this exchange. This year’s group is made up of photographers, painters, architects, composers, designers, and multi-media artists having studied at the Royal College of Arts, the Bartlett School of Architecture, King’s College and the Slade School of Art.

Vernissage
17 October 2013
18.30 - 01.00 h

18-20 October 2013
Opening hours
11.00 - 17.00 h

Live performances
by the Mischa Tangian Quartet
17/10/13, 19.00 h - 19.30 h
18/10/13, 20.00 h - 21.00 h

Free improvisation-composition session on
Oct 19th/20th 3.00 - 4.00 h

More infos on the music: https://www.facebook.com/events/596739990382160/?ref_dashboard_filter=calendar

From a Laboratory of Wondermaterials to Ballads of Brutalism, from Utopian roller coasters for transient communities to installative impro-performances inspired by South-American mythology – when looking at the work of the students presenting their work at the DAAD Art Show 2013, one is confronted with such a diversity of projects that is difficult to pin them down to a common topic. However, when there is to be one common denominator for the work of these artists, designers, architects and musicians it is their radical experimental approach towards and beyond their own discipline.

 London’s art schools are renowned internationally for being research driven experimental institutions and catalysts of speculation: relieved from the pragmatic constraints of professional life, students can ask the question “what if” and as such have the chance to produce something genuinely novel. For that reason, these schools exercise an irresistible attraction upon students from around the globe. At the same time, exorbitant living costs and ever rising study fees continue to be massive obstacles for making the leap to England. And even once this leap is made, anxiety about the own economy threatens to overshadow the intellectual and artistic freedom enjoyed at the schools.

The exhibition has been initiated and generously supported by the DAAD London.