Honoring Outstanding Works by TU Art Students

Each year, “Rundgang Kunst” offers students the opportunity to showcase their art to a wider public within an institutional framework. At the opening, Professor Wiebke Möhring, Vice President Academic Affairs at TU Dortmund University, and Professor Barbara Welzel, Academic Director of Campus Stadt, welcomed the numerous guests. On behalf of the Rectorate, Professor Möhring presented the Arts Prizes, each including prize money of €500, in the categories Painting, Graphics, Sculpture, Photography and the Edition Prize.

The Prize Winners

The Arts Prize for Painting went to Jerome Braun for his work “Die Wanderschaft”. He explores the transformation of everyday reality through the omnipresence of a new naturalness in the simulated and the artificial. Based on motifs largely generated by AI, he produces analog oil paintings in which montages of the familiar and the absurd open up new perspectives, with the human figure at their center.

In the Graphics category, Dana Leske was awarded the Arts Prize for her work “Sehnot”, in which floating plastic objects and deep-sea jellyfish interact. In the garish colors, the dissonance and the radical cuts, one senses the pain over nature’s destruction. According to the jury, the horror of ocean pollution is embedded in the depiction of the brightly colored plastic objects, whose luminosity makes them alluring yet virtually indestructible.

The Photography prize went to Allegra Höltge for “Dysmorphia – Schönheit liegt im Auge der Betrachtenden“, which addresses bodily self-perception in the context of representing female nudity. She reveals how a distorted self-image can become a burden. By printing her nude photographs on semi-transparent fabric sheets, she creates an interaction between revealing and concealing.

In Sculpture, Levin Denda was honored for his work “How’s Life,” in which he keenly perceives and makes visible the inner processes people often overlook amid the bustle of everyday life. The jury praised his simplicity and humor: by combining everyday materials, he crafts objects and video installations that initially appear playful but carry profound insights into human behavior.

The Edition Prize of the Rectorate was awarded to Ida Maria Weidl. Her work “Weberstraße” a series of images compiled from individual photographs, depicts a substantial segment of the route between her home and her place of study at TU Dortmund University. The piece merges a contemporary experience of mobility and media — such as the rapid passing of scenery outside a car window—with a focused sensitivity to the details of the landscape.

“Rundgang Kunst” of TU Dortmund University

In the exhibition, students of the Visual Arts present the works they have developed and realized in the studios of the Department for Art and Material Culture at TU Dortmund University. “Rundgang Kunst” ranks among the most visited exhibitions each year at Campus Stadt in the Dortmunder U. It can be viewed until 17 August during the Dortmunder U’s opening hours. Admission is free.

At Campus Stadt, TU Dortmund University regularly provides insights into its research and teaching as a partner in the Dortmunder U. Exhibition presentations and the space as a forum for dialogue offer the local community opportunities — through various event formats — to learn about and discuss the questions and findings of academic disciplines together.

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