Global Health Day
Exhibition by students of the Institute of Art Education, curated by Dr. Karin Wimmer printing course at the LMU Institute of Art Education.
24.03.2025
In the exhibition in the Senate Hall, students of the Institute of Art Education present works that deal with being human, with physicality, with memories, experiences and emotions as well as the search for oneself.
In the Somnophia project, Loreen Kuchling processes her personal experience of nightmares influenced by anaesthesia. In her childhood, the artist was exposed to anaesthetics over a long period of time during a stay in hospital. These caused vivid
nightmares as a side effect.
Xiaojie Wang's work A Dialogue of One's Own is a multi-media video installation consisting of three parts, exploring loneliness and disconnection in the era of globalization. Two black-and-white videos show waves washing over reefs and beaches,
heaven and earth reversed, accompanied by a fragmented dialogue—one from a solitary seafarer, the other a whisper from a sealed city. Disrupted by time and signal loss, their conversation dissolves into monologues.
Anna Sajzewa's graphic novel When on Earth, Do as the Humans Do is about being human and dealing with oneself. The path there is not easy, even the destination is unclear, and yet there is nothing more human than that.
In Overgrowing Technology by Lara Peters, analogue and digital memories merge into a poetic narrative. The four acts The Sky, The Forest, The Ground and The Waters navigate through the intricate web of cyberspace and explore themes of the past and present. Through a mixture of videos from the artist's personal archives and new digital collages, a visual and auditory experience is created that invites us to reflect on past technologies and their influence on our natural and social environment.
Petra Pohls modular image installation explores the complex relationship between skin, pain and scars. The focus is on the question of what associations and emotions the sight of scarred skin evokes. While intact, youthful skin has the connotation of health and beauty, scars are visible signs of pain suffered. They tell stories of external and internal injuries and leave permanent marks on the skin. Her work aims to evoke similar feelings and reflections to those by the sight of scars when looking at the work. The work invites you to question the deeper meaning of scars and to experience the emotional resonance.
Under the guidance of lecturer Eva Blanché, students with no prior experience in this technique – but with great curiosity and a spirit of experimentation – explore the possibilities of screen printing.
Most of the works exhibited here were created as part of an interdisciplinary project by the LMU Department of Art History and the General Medicine Foundation. The creative process was initiated by a keynote lecture by Professor Jochen Gensichen on
the guiding principles of general medicine, inspiring participants to develop their own artistic interpretations of the topic. The intensive work in the studio, the interplay of concept and technique, and the supportive and appreciative atmosphere of the course led to a diverse range of personal artistic results and a critical approach to the theme of general medicine.
Anna Sajzewa, When on Earth, Do as the Humans Do 2024
Graphic Novel, 50 Seiten, Analog, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign
Lara Peters, Overgrowing Technology I-IV 2024
4 x 36,5 x 37,5 Videoinstallation
Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Resolume Avenue, Processing4
Loreen Kuchling, somnophobia, 2024
Duration 05:22 min, Virtual Reality Video, 3D-Modelling, 3D-Animation
Petra Könnecke-Pohl, Drawn Skin / Gezeichnete Haut 2024, 150 x 180 cm
Canvas and paper, painted, sewn, collaged, acrylic paint, ink, fineliner, thread, fabric, plastic foil
Featuring works by: Riem Albarazi, Mira Gunzelmann, Maya Kühner, Elisabeth Märtin, Elena Nieberle, Luisa Peters, Carla Springer.
Xiaojie Wang, A Dialogue of One's Own 2025, 11:18 mins
Videoinstallation, MadMapper, Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effect, Adobe Photoshop.
