Leaps in Time: Art Sees Art

Old art and historical objects can have a powerful effect. They become significant when they are connected to one another. And this often happens in a way that is not so different from the reception intended centuries ago.


Students at the HBKsaar were fascinated by the pious, ecstatic or grotesque figures during a visit to the Bode Museum. The mythological figures, the biblical sinners and saints evoked in them a feeling of great distance, but also of closeness. Although these animated bodies come from other times, the old heroes and saints are human figures - just like today.

The young artists entered into an exciting dialogue with the figures and discovered a lot of contemporary things in the initially strange human bodies. In the form of installations, photo art, augmented reality and video, they developed approaches to old art that make the objects vivid, lively and experienceable in an unusual way.


Participating students from the HBKsaar

Mohammad Babaei, Clara Höferlin, Diana Kadochnikova, Nils Kammer, Haegang Lee, Thekla Lüken called Klaßen, Constanze Metzel, Anna Nau, Sarah Niecke, Melissa Pelk, Tamara Pick, Claudius Rodenbüsch, Heidrun Stern, Elisabeth Sunik and Jennifer Trenkel


Accompanying symposium on February 14, 2025

On Friday, February 14, 2025, the symposium "Making Art Work" organized by the HBKsaar in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will lead into the exhibition on the topic of curating, exhibiting and communicating in the Brugsch-Pascha-Saal on Berlin's Museum Island.



A special presentation by the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art - State Museums in Berlin in cooperation with the HBKsaar - Saar Academy of Fine Arts and with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture of Saarland within the framework of the federal-state cooperation of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.