Artists and Designers at the Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art, 1997–2024
Since 1997, the Art Academy’s Friends Association, the Mart Stam Society, has awarded the Mart Stam Prize annually for outstanding final projects in all disciplines.
Image gallery
Ingeborg Lockemann/ Elke Mohr: Paintings: Pool, Skaterpark Beelitz, Straße des Aufbaus/Brandenburg, 2024.
The association is named after the Dutch architect Mart Stam (1899–1986), who served as director of the Academy of Fine Arts from 1950 to 1952. Stam was one of the pioneers of Modernism who viewed their work within a social context. His insistence on the social responsibility of artists and designers continues to shape the Academy’s self-image to this day.
The art college’s 80th anniversary provided an opportunity to explore what has become of the 182 award recipients. From among them, the curators have selected 28 exemplary works for this exhibition. Video portraits of the artists and designers add an extra dimension to the exhibited works: they reveal not only a wide variety of artistic and design strategies, but also ways of life that encourage people to embark on paths where the destination is not clear from the outset. This requires the courage to take risks, the courage to experiment, and a dose of determination.
An exhibition by the Mart Stam Society e.V.
Curated by: Stefan Koppelkamm, Sophia Pompéry
Artists and Designers:
Neda Aydin, Antonia Doenitz, Ella Einhell, Helen Eisen, Ingo Fröhlich, Andrés Galeano, Susi Hinz, Silke Kästner, Fruzsina Kiss, Jung A Lee, Barbara Lenartz, Ingeborg Lockemann and Elke Mohr, Ulrike Mohr, Kazuki Nakahara, Lorenz Pasch, Viktoria Pidust, Sophia Pompéry, Konstantin Potapov, Marina Resende Santos, Claudia Schramke, Jannis Schulze, Markus Shimizu, Fiete Stolte and Julia Stolte, Theresa Reiwer, Vivian Tamm, Sebastian Weise, Jakob Margit Wirth, Rie Yamada
Of the 182 artists and designers who received the Mart Stam Prize between 1997 and 2024, 30 were selected for the exhibition.
