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An international jury has honoured three students at the University of the Arts (HfK) Bremen as recipients of the Frese-Design-Preis: Noriyuki Suzuki, Te I Um and Klara Linde. In addition, our students Hanna Paniutsich, Kai Schorowsky, as well as Victor Artiga Rodriguez & Icaro Lopez de mesa Moyano received honorable mentions as a part of the prize. The six artists all are graduates of the study programs Integrated Design and Digitale Media at the HfK and present their graduating projects together with 23 fellow students in our annual exhibition. Titled “J22” the show run at the BLG Forum.
During the award ceremony the jury declared that they were “positively impressed by the quality of the work. The pieces stand out by their originality, sophisticated concepts and careful execution, while tackling critical issues in today´s society.”
The Frese-Design-Preis has been awarded to young designers and creators at the HfK Bremen since 2014. The prize lends a hand to graduates at the Department for Art and Design in gaining visibility through their work on a national and international level, while supporting their efforts as designers and their start into professional careers.
The Frese-Design-Preis is tied to financial awards of 5.000 Euro for the first prize, 3.000 Euro for the second prize and 2.000 Euro for the third prize.
First Prize: Noriyuki Suzuki (Digital Media, Master of Arts)
Title: Invisible Hand, Genre: Installation
Description of the work: “Invisible Hand” is a kinetic sculpture that symbolises the death chambers where Japanese sentenced to death sentences are still being executed even after the end of the Second World War. According to Amnesty International, in 2021 three death sentences have been carried out in Japan by hangman´s rope. The procedure is designed to protect the identity of the executed person. According to Noriyuki Suzuki: “An invisible hand brings about the death of the perpetrator as if nobody is involved in the process.”
From the opinion of the Jury: “The members of the committee were particularly impressed by the way Noriyuki Suzuki leads us into reflecting on the contentious issues of agency, delegated power, and responsibility while subtly alluding to the procedures involved in the execution of death sentences in Japan through `Invisible Hand´. Suzuki’s work is sensual, emotional and dramatic, full of references and metaphors. She combines unexpected artefacts such as a chair and curtains to recreate the sombre atmosphere of Japanese death chambers, while birch branches driven by hydraulic mechanisms enact the way responsibilities for executions have been dispersed by bending and pressing them into layers on top of each other. The work is highly political, a metaphor for our current patterns of behaviour of how we decline responsibility and hand over authority to machines.”
Second Prize: Te I Um (Integrated Design, Master of Arts)
Title: ChuChu and TuTu, Genre: Installation with animation, comics and graphic works
Description of the work: “My research is focussed on unmasking the cruelty of everyday discrimination in our society by utilising the aesthetics of kitsch. I created the figures of ChuChu und TuTu to represent certain stereotypes in society and I use them in my work to contemplate the social structure, the hierarchy and the cruelty of human nature.”
From the opinion of the jury: “We regard ourselves as honoured to present Te I Um as the winner of the second prize. Her well-observed, bold and brave work addresses personal and universal aspects of experiencing everyday discrimination and social structures of stereotyping otherness in euro-centric spheres. Through her well-balanced, high-quality execution on all levels of project development, Te I Um has created a playful parallel world in which the audience can organically explore the narrative via various media. The aesthetic of `kitsch´ has been used very cleverly to exaggerate the ideas presented almost to the grotesque, but without ever loosing a light-hearted satirical perspective. Her virtuosic and professional handling of different media stood out to us, demonstrating impressively how illustration can turn a spatial sensation into a three-dimensional sculptural experience from a two-dimensional graphic impulse.”
Third Prize: Klara Linde (Integrated Design, Bachelor of Arts)
Title: Umbruch (Upheaval), Genre: Publication
Questions to launch the project: “Deutsch-Ossig is one among more than 300 localities that had to give way to strip mining coal. The place had been the home of my family. I never had the opportunity to become familiar with it. How had live been there? How did residents look at coal mining? Their relocation? Their new residence in the substitution program for displace people from mining areas? And what will remain of a locality that now is in the middle of a lake?” (Klara Linde)
From the opinion of the jury: “Klara Linde chose the forced resettlement of an East German community due to the arrival of strip mining coal and its consequences as the subject of her bachelor project. The connection to topics such as migration and displacement, which are constantly gaining relevance, becomes evident in the thoroughly researched work. It captivates through its diversity and the professional execution in multiple media, which consists of three parts: A documentary-like series of pictures shows row houses in which the families live after their resettlement. Scan-like large-format images show details of objects found in vacant houses. The extensive publication includes interviews with people affected by forced relocations and impresses with its well-done realisation, thoughtful typographic design, purposefully designed maps, and the targeted use of different printing techniques.”
Honorary Mentions were awarded to Hanna Paniutsich, Kai Schorowsky, as well as Victor Artiga Rodriguez & Icaro Lopez de mesa Moyano.
Hanna Paniutsich (Digital Media, Master of Arts): Vypramieńvannie (Radioactivity), Installation
Opinion of the jury: “With her installation Hanna Paniutsich approaches the responsibility for the nuclear disaster that impacts all of us. The work shows us in a tactile way how radioactivity leaves long lasting traces that affect climate change, the soil microbiome and all plants and living beings.”
Kai Schorowsky (Integrated Design, Bachelor of Arts): Myth Private Pool, Prints/Book
Opinion of the jury: “An experimental and intriguing work of research with numerous historical and anthropological references to the phenomenon of the private swimming pool from antiquity to our times. The drawings in the book are so surprising in their originality that we all wanted to grab the book and take it along!”
Victor Artiga Rodriguez & Icaro Lopez de mesa Moyano (Digital Media, Master of Arts): The Paradoxical Myth of the Crazed Jaguar and Nene de Solar, Performance
Opinion of the jury: “Victor Artiga Rodriguez and Icaro Lopez de mesa Moyano mesmerised us with a techno-shamanistic performance in which they blur boundaries between digital, mechanical and traditional media. They recreated the myth of Jaguar and Solar and gave us a better understanding of the issues around the westernisation of indigenous heritages.”
Membership of the jury for the current Frese-Design-Preis: Serge Rompza (graphic designer, Designstudio NODE Berlin Oslo), Julia Eberhardt (fashion designer educated at the HfK Bremen, fashion as well as art historian, and also collection developer for the label “Vivienne Westwood”), César E Giraldo Herrera, PhD (social anthropologist, biologist, independent researcher and author), Daria Parkhomenko (founding director of the Russian Laboratoria Art & Science Foundation, currently living in German and working at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe) and Moritz Putzier (product designer educated at the HfK).
Contact Press:
Hochschule für Künste Bremen
Melisa Berktas
Email: mberktas@hfk-bremen.de
Telefon: 0421 9595 1030
www.hfk-bremen.de
Noriyuki Suzuki: Invisible Hand, installation.
Photo: Lukas Klose
Te I Um: ChuChu and TuTu, installation with animations, comics and graphic works.
Photo: Tei I Um
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Noriyuki Suzuki: Invisible Hand, installation.
Photo: Lukas Klose
Te I Um: ChuChu and TuTu, installation with animations, comics and graphic works.
Photo: Tei I Um
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