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NOVA is a space for contemporary art and a platform for current questions of artistic practice and its (re)presentation.

In exhibitions as well as other experimental formats, NOVA is dedicated to the discourse around the arts.

21/09/2023

POWER HOUSE
furniture

At the beginning of the year, we asked Andreas Mühlenbehrend, Professor of Product Design and Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at , for ideas for flexible, movable, modular seating for our nova [shared] space.
Pieces of furniture that were easy to store and assemble, on which as many people as possible could find a seat, and which were also affordable as well as of course sustainable.

What we got were modular benches and stools made from soda crates, held together by customized green nova belts. Over the last few months, they became so much more than just seating: Bar equipment, tables, performance and lecture furniture.

Later this year, when POWER HOUSE comes to a close, the crates will be returned to retail and the straps will be used for future art transports.

Thanks for this contribution to the POWER HOUSE, .charitea for the crates, Ronald Bock Späti Weimar for providing them, and Andreas Riese for co-development.

Photos
1/5/10: Jannis Uffrecht
2/3/4/7/8/9: Andreas & Helena Mühlenbehrend
6: Katharina Wendler

23/08/2023

artist talk @ nova space

Timelines I
Vanessa Joan Müller & Denise Blickhan

💜 Thursday, 25 August 2023, 3 pm
💚 Location: nova [shared] space @ Schiller-Museum, Schillerstr. 12, 99423 Weimar
💜 free admission, open to the public

As part of POWER HOUSE 'Episode 04 - reframing the future'

'MEDUSA' is a performance cycle that Denise Blickhan has meticulously crafted. This series explores the complexities of female self-images and how they intertwine with external perceptions. Denise ingeniously blurs the line between reality and representation as she weaves media images around her, all while remaining physically present. Through her mesmerizing movements and haunting melodies, she engages with an unidentified interlocutor. She effortlessly embodies both a modern variety artist and an ancient mythological figure, inviting us to ponder power structures, the influence of images on women, and the intricate web of gender relationships in the digital age.

Text: Andreas Lenz
Photo: Sophie Gruber

08/08/2023

Up next!

POWER HOUSE
Episode 04
reframing the future

opens Tuesday, August 15, 8-11 pm

nova space @ Schiller-Museum
Schillerstr. 12, 99423 Weimar

with
Denise Blickhan, Vincent Brière, Max Broda, Isabelle Castera, Samira Engel, Anna Härtelt, Charlene Hahne, Thibaut Henz, Francis Kamprath, Nikola Kekerovic, Rebecca A. Layton, Matthias Pitscher, Christian Rothe, Rundfunkorchestra, Darko Velazquez, Holger Wilkens, Jakob Wirth

Act One: "retrospective of the present" from August 15
Act Two: "prologue of the past" from August 30
Act Three: "memories of tomorrow" from September 12

‘Episode 04 – reframing the future’ presents works from the art prize "born to be bauhaus" in the rooms of nova space at the Schiller-Museum.
The exhibition goes back to an initiative of the university's Archiv der Moderne and überLand e.V. who initiated the art prize in 2017. The aim was to create a unique collection of contemporary art from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar graduates in order to present it to the public in the anniversary year of the first Bauhaus exhibition. Since 2017, a jury has selected up to five artists per year whose works have been included in the custodial collection.

‘reframing the future’ is divided into three acts and will change regularly during the exhibition period, accompanied by a diverse program. In this way, visitors can establish new connections between the works of the collection.

Curated by Andreas Lenz
Curatorial assistance: Isabelle Castera
Graphic design: Adrian Palko und Marc Wöhner

In collaboration with &

13/07/2023

POWER HOUSE
Episode 03
can’t stop won’t stop

on view since June 29

nova space @ Schiller-Museum
Schillerstr. 12, 99423 Weimar

with
Buba Beboshvili, Maria Fabricius, Kyuhyun Kim, Juro Carl Anton Reinhardt, Hauke Scholz

Exciting to share installation views of the third POWER HOUSE Episode, ‘can’t stop won’t stop‘ with y’all! The exhibition expands the space once again, spreading into the back building of Schiller-Museum Weimar. It is dedicated to questions about arriving, movements, and the fleetingness of our lives.

Is it possible to ever arrive?

We are always in a kind of transition, in transit, and thus we have an ephemeral relationship with the places we visit every day. Are the stability, security and belonging embodied by places like our home not all just socially constructed? Actually, we are in a constant transitory state, in which our being tries to master its own life in a perpetual process of adaptation. How do we interact with volatility? How do we manage to feel and produce stability in this airy instability? 'can't stop won't stop' raises these questions and shows how differently transit can manifest itself in our lives.

Curated by .6
Photos by Jannis Uffrecht

In collaboration with &

27/06/2023

We are very excited to announce this powerful collab 💥

POWER HOUSE
Episode 03
can’t stop won’t stop

opens Thursday, June 29, 6–9 pm

nova space @ Schiller-Museum
Schillerstr. 12, 99423 Weimar

with
Buba Beboshvili, Maria Fabricius, Kyuhyun Kim, Juro Carl Anton Reinhardt, Hauke Scholz

‘Episode 03 - can’t stop won’t stop’ is the third chapter of the POWER HOUSE exhibition. Adding to ‘Episode 02 - no one belongs here more than you’ it will stretch across new areas of the museum.

Is it possible to ever arrive?
How do we interact with volatility?
How do we manage to feel and produce stability in an ever-changing world?

We are always in a kind of transition, in transit, and thus we have an ephemeral relationship with the places we visit every day. EP03 raises questions about a life in constant transit, about movements and the fleetingness of it all.

Curated by marke.6
Curatorial team: Valery Barts, Helena Boldt, Shirin Dhear, Larissa Ebel, Sahrah Feyerabend, Jonah Martensen, Oriana Flavia Osterkorn

In collaboration with &

18/05/2023

POWER HOUSE
Episode 02
no one belongs here more than you

opens Thursday, May 25, 6–9 pm

nova space @ Schiller-Museum
Schillerstr. 12, 99423 Weimar

with
Hannah Aßmann-Staudt, Verena von Beckerath & Barbara Schönig, Esther Betz & Mara Kossira, Elisa Breyer, Moritz Eggert, Emma von Helden & Paula Pichler, Sofia Hultén, Ian Kiaer, Mailand/Innenhof, Christian Andrés Parra Sánchez, Negar Rahnamae, Charlotte Rohde, Katrin Steiger

‘Episode 02 - no one belongs here more than you’ is the second chapter of the POWER HOUSE exhibition. Merging with ‘Episode 01 - where do we grow from here’ it will stretch across new areas of the museum and beyond.

EP02 is dedicated to themes of belonging, identification (with living space, with one's own environment, with "Heimat") and security. In the context of housing, these issues take on a particular urgency.

With whom do we share our private space? Do we do it voluntarily or forced? Where and how do we want to live?

The exhibition looks at these questions through the eyes of (media-)architects, graphic designers, product designers and artists. It assembles works by students, teachers and alumni of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as well as external positions.

Curated by Katharina Wendler

Team:
Margarida Bolsa, Brooks Butler, Berta Colomer, Moritz Eggert, Laura Heimberg, Ioannis Oriwol, Adrian Palko, Till Röttjer, Rio Usui, Marc Wöhner

In collaboration with &

19/04/2022

SPACE, ACTIVATE!

April 28 – June 10, 2022
opens Wednesday, April 27, 2022, 6–9 pm

NOVA art space @ Kunsthaus Erfurt
Michaelisstr. 34, 99084 Erfurt, Germany

Artists:
Anna Rupp, Bruce Nauman, Denise Blickhan, kollektiv unproduktiv x Query Powerball, Nadja Kračunović, Prinz Gholam, Tian Titirat Skultantimayta x Sornrapat Patharakorn, Young Boy Dancing Group

We are very excited to open the first of four exhibitions at Kunsthaus Erfurt on April 27. SPACE, ACTIVATE! relates works by students and alumni of the Bauhaus University to three renowned international positions. It is dedicated to performative and collaborative practices and focuses on artistic works that literally activate and charge the newly acquired spaces with energy by means of performances and actions.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a program to which all are cordially invited:

27.04.22, 7 pm - Performance by Denise Blickhan.
07.05.22, 8 pm - Performance by Young Boy Dancing Group
12.05.22, 8 pm - Performance by Anna Rupp
13.05.22, 9 pm - Performance of Query Powerball / Long night of the museums, Erfurt
10.06.22, 7 pm - Artist Talk with Prince Gholam

Curator / Director: Katharina Wendler
NOVA Team: Coretta Klaue , Till Röttjer , Rio Usui
Head of Visual Communication: Adrian Palko
Visual Communication Team: Haron Barashed @1.auflage, Ossian Osborne , Lisa Schulz-Coppi , Marc Wöhner

.unproduktiv

14/04/2022

Introducing:
NOVA art space @ Kunsthaus Erfurt

We are extremely excited to announce a new chapter for NOVA: From April til December 2022 we will reside in the gallery space of Kunsthaus Erfurt. During this time NOVA will evolve towards becoming the official university gallery of , an institution that represents the activities of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar while at the same time inviting artists and lecturers from abroad.

In this spirit, NOVA will continue as a platform for contemporary art and current questions of artistic practice and its (re)presentation. It’s mission is to combine academic teaching with hands-on projects, and to connect students with art world professionals — all within the context of a locally as well as globally-oriented art field.

Over the course of the upcoming months we will present 4 exhibitions . The first one opens Wednesday, April 27, 6pm. Save the date!

11/04/2022

💥nova is back💥

April 27, 2022

04/06/2021

UTOPIA IN CRISIS

Introducing the artists

The drawings by Andrea Medjesi-Jones .medjesijones (*1973 Vukovar/Croatia, lives and works in London) move between abstract (mechanical and organic) forms and figures, morphing between design and function, body and nature. They borrow from Paul Klee’s Vorkurs the idea of “synthesis” and “analysis” before they individually venture out into their own world of phantasmagoria, futurity and excess. The starting point for each work was a simple, formal exercise, beginning with a circle, as a means of activating different conceptual and symbolic narratives. But there is nothing simple about circles, and each drawing takes on a persona that responds to idiosyncratic and experimental approaches to utopian, also ideological faces of the Bauhaus.

Photos: Teresa Fischer

03/06/2021

UTOPIA IN CRISIS

Introducing the artists

In Sadie Murdoch’s (*1965 Hexham/UK, lives and works in London) ‘Machine Art, Doubled.’ (2021), a black and white image of an installation view of Philip Johnson’s exhibition “Machine Art” presented at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934, is digitally colour saturated, incised, doubled and inverted. “Machine Art” was Johnson’s highly idiosyncratic follow up to “Modernist Architecture: The International Exhibition” (1932). In this earlier project, architecture by Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe was made available for public scrutiny in the United States for the first time. In “Machine Art”, Johnson sought to banish the taint of the utilitarian from industrially manufactured objects forever, in favour of formal purity. Here, the absence of colour in archival photographs of modernist artefacts not only creates historical distance, it also emphasises sculptural form at the expense of functionality.

Photo: Teresa Fischer

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