BILD-RAUM-PIXEL
A mural project with art students from the Technical University of Dortmund at the Konrad-Klepping-Berufskolleg Dortmund
PRESENTATION THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2018, 11 A.M.
AULA KONRAD-KLEPPING-BERUFSKOLLEG
Welcome: Andrea Schendekehl, Headmistress KKB, Sebastian Bialas, Senior Teacher KKB
Greeting: Martina Raddatz-Nowack, Head of the Dortmund School Administration Office
Introduction: Prof. Dr. Barbara Welzel, Vice-President Diversity Management TU Dortmund University
Presentation of the project: Dipl.-Des. Sabine Funk and students
Closing remarks: Prof. Tillmann Damrau, Chair of Painting TU Dortmund University
A school building such as the Konrad-Klepping-Berufskolleg, designed by Karl Walter Schulze and Erhard Frölich in the 1950s, should be an inspiring place in the best sense of the word, especially for the more than 2,700 students who enjoy visiting it. Art on the building can make a significant contribution to this.
The wall design project entitled BILD- RAUM-PIXEL is already the second art project realized by painting students at the Department of Art and Art Studies at the Technical University of Dortmund in the Konrad Klepping Vocational College. In 2013, the stairwell was redesigned under the title "White Walls - New Spaces".
Last year, on the initiative of senior teacher Sebastian Bialas and Professor Tillmann Damrau, students under the artistic direction of Sabine Funk developed a design concept for five classrooms located one above the other on each floor of the building. In contrast to the work in the studio, this project posed a particular challenge in terms of responding to the structure, function and use of the building.
The students Rebecca Frömbgen, JohannaGrote, Anja Migge, Maja Motzko, Hannah Nöthe, Céline Roßhoff, Marina Rothkehl, Patrick Schattka, Susanne Schütz, Nina Strachanski, Anna Wolf, Miriam Woywodt and Stefan Zientek used a photo of the immediate school environment for their wall designs in each of the five rooms, which they abstracted and transferred as a pixel-like grid to the long sides of the rooms, which are fitted with glass blocks facing the corridor. The color scheme of the classrooms was coordinated with the mural in the stairwell. The end result is a beautiful interplay of concrete local references and atmospheric abstraction.
A catalog on the project has been published in the series Dortmunder Schriften zur Kunst, Kataloge und Essays.