For this year's Silo exhibition, Paderborn University's art and textiles departments are once again opening their studios and workshops. From Wednesday, 31 January to Sunday, 4 February, they will be presenting a broad spectrum of current student works and projects from the fields of graphic art, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography, video, curatorial practice, textile design and creation as well as performance. Every day from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., visitors to the Silo will be presented with a comprehensive picture of artistic development processes on four floors, encompassing open and experimental approaches in analogue and digital media. On Tuesday, 30 January, the exhibition will be opened at 6 p.m. by University President Prof. Dr Birgitt Riegraf, Prof. Dr Dorothee M. Meister, Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Prof. Max Schulze from the Department of Art and textile students Cerrin Hülsiggeusen and Melodie Öztürk.
Water, baths and art metropolis: science and art in dialogue
The fact that artistic practice and academic reflection are closely interlinked is illustrated by the current themes and forms of expression that art students have been working on over the past year. Under the title "Paderborn liegt (nicht) am Meer" (Paderborn is (not) by the sea), they explored the motif of water, dedicated a painting seminar to the theme of the bath from a contemporary perspective and worked on the overlapping points of art and everyday routines in sculpture. Also on display are film and photographic works about an excursion to New York and a postcard box with impressions from the intensive exploration of the great art metropolis. In the performance project "Walking on Thin Ice", the public space in Paderborn became a stage for temporary actions and artistic interventions for one day, which can be viewed as film documentation in the exhibition.
Photographs, drawings and fashion shows
On the fourth floor of the Silo, textile students present their self-curated exhibition. In addition to photographs, (fashion) drawings and new outfits, this year's focus is on films of fashion shows. "Creative Couture" shows the students' fashion show at the "Creativa", Europe's largest trade fair for creative design in Dortmund. "PaderBORN 4 fashion" was created at the "District Living" lifestyle trade fair in Paderborn.
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