EXHIBITION

BLURRED EDGES

a triple venue group exhibition

Twelve students from the international MFA Program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University take over Karl Liebknecht Straße to test the permeability of limits, both physical and conceptual.

Blurred Edges reflects on the need to find spaces to remain permeable in a global context where nationalist discourses encourage the need for solid borders and the defense of territories.

According to Edouard Glissant, the lieux (the place) is a "space of negotiation, adaptation, and transformation. An active node of exchange and harmonization of diversities unlike the rigid and exclusionary concept of territory -rooted in nationalism, monolingualism, and fixed identities”*.

The place emerges as the meeting point where individuals can contribute their languages, traditions, and values without erasing differences, through a fluid exchange and even despite the latent hazards that exchange can bring.

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AWOL Collective (Absent without Leave) is an artistic collective committed to democratizing climate knowledge and research. AWOL engages in collaborative practices that challenge imperial frameworks and reimagine relationships with the environment as part of a shared struggle for liberation. Through interdisciplinary projects, ranging from lecture performances to on-site research and performative actions, the collective merges memory, archives, and history with data and spatial analysis, crafting new narratives that bridge personal displacement with ecological crisis. Composed originally by Belén Arellano Cañizares, Yaman To'meh, Stefan Ralevic, Eduardo Gonzaga, Santiago Méndez and Giuliana Marmo.

Oğul Arda Biçer (b.1999, Turkey) brings together sculptural elements, videos and ready made objects to construct new narratives from mixed feelings towards ever-present concepts of daily life.

Zeynep Bodur (b.1998, Turkey) is a multidisciplinary artist currently pursuing a master’s degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University Weimar. With a background in Sculpture (Marmara University) and Cultural Heritage and Tourism (Istanbul University), her work spans sculpture, performance, and text-based art, using materials such as clay, metal, and other mediums. She explores political and social themes, focusing on the subconscious and the repetitive cycles of thought and action that shape perception and reality. Through figurative sculptures and stream-of-consciousness poetry, she examines how personal and cultural influences shape our experiences.

Raisa Bosich (b.1988, Chile) Her artistic research is rooted in materiality, focusing on the language, semiotics of patterns, communication devices, and architectural elements, explored through abstraction. Her work examines how these elements shape our perception and invites viewers to engage with shifting dimensions of reality. Working across painting, textiles, sculpture, participative actions, and installation. She holds a BA in Visual Arts from Universidad de Chile. Her work has been shown in Chile, Peru, France, Colombia, Argentina, Germany, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Including Tate Modern, CENTEX Valparaíso and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo MAC Santiago.

Carolina Diaz (b.1993, Colombia) is a visual artist and researcher currently based in Germany. She holds a BA from the Academia superior de Artes de Bogotá. Her artistic work creates connections, images, and processes that engage with neoliberal policies around the world and how they directly impact everyday life. Often starting from events that occur in people's daily lives, which are frequently perceived as 'banal,' this concept is a transversal element in her work, which navigates between video and installation. Her work has been exhibited in her home country, Mexico, and Germany, at national and international fairs and art spaces.

Dania González Sanabria explores creatures, natural processes, and organic structures to create sensitive approaches to different scenarios, and personal and collective histories. Since the beginning of her career in Cuba, utopias and frustrations within that context have instilled in her a need to give fresh and regenerative meanings to material, emotional, social, and political degradations through art processes. Graduated from ISA, Havana, Cuba. Has participated in collective exhibitions in Cuba, Spain, Italy, Colombia, South Africa and England among others. She won the Exile Visual Arts Special Award from Körber Stiftung Hamburg and Exile Museum Berlin.

Giuliana Marmo (b.1999, Venezuela) Her work explores site-specific interventions, performative actions, and interdisciplinary practices that emphasize collaboration, identity, and the reactivation of public spaces. Engaging with themes of protest and resistance, she employs collective research and artistic pedagogies, integrating methodologies such as political imaginaries, poetic forensics, and radical care practices. As a scholar and researcher, she focuses on institutional critique, precarious assemblies, and counter-logistics, aligning her artistic practice with an evolving pedagogical approach to art education. She holds a BA graduate degree in Multimedia Arts from IUAV University in Venice.

Kitman Yeung is an interdisciplinary artist based between Germany and Australia, exploring the spaces between images through moving image and participatory action. Their work investigates humanity's existential urges, rooted in the contradictions of futility, and addresses the socio-political impacts of migration.

Emily Thomas (b.1996, UK) is a visual artist & woodworker based between Berlin and Weimar. From the Saatchi Gallery in London to Soulangh Cultural Park in Taiwan, Emily has been sharing her work globally since graduating from the University of Arts London in 2018. Her roots lie in a rural UK village with just 300 residents, which ultimately sparked her interest in the concept of place. Growing up amidst ongoing construction in her family home, where her parents personally undertook the building, she cultivated a passion for construction, materiality and sculpture. This also fuels her artistic exploration of alternative ways of living, examining how different housing structures reflect & shape communities.

Emily Cheung Tsz Ching (b.2000, Hong Kong) is an emerging artist based in Germany. She completed her bachelor’s degree in Environment and Interior Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Through her artistic research, Emily investigates themes of displacement, collective memory, and identity.

On this occasion, 11m3 joins Tusche Gallery, and Kulturschaufenster to become places where the artists can explore the concept of permeability through materiality, narrative, or topic exploration, inviting viewers to join these spaces where identities can intersect and even merge.

* Wendy Knepper, “Colonization, Creolization, and Globalization: The Art and Ruses of Bricolage”, p. 79, 2006.

Poster Design: Carolina Diaz