Open exchange: Teaching and learning with materials
Talk

With Yuka Oyama (professor of sculpture/jewellery) and her students Katarina Briski, Cathleen Kämpfe and Larissa Thiel, as well as artistic assistant Dorothea Heisig (Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle) and Daniela Bystron (curator for outreach, Brücke Museum)

Both the academy and the museum are places where knowledge and learning are transmitted through and with art. The Brücke-Museum is currently presenting an exhibition on the craftsmanship of the Brücke movement and thus seeking contemporary ways to engage audiences. In this context, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle is a valuable partner as it combines design, applied arts and fine arts across two faculties: The Design faculty offers practice-oriented courses such as industrial design, fashion design, and interior architecture, while the Art faculty offers study programmes in subjects including sculpture, painting, ceramics, and jewellery.
We invite you to join an exchange between academy and museum: Yuka Oyama, professor of sculpture/jewellery at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, will visit with her students to share insights into her teaching practice. Daniela Bystron, curator for outreach at the Brücke-Museum, will explore questions on contemporary approaches to presenting craftsmanship in the museum context.

We look forward to your participation and engaging in discussions together. The event will take place in the museum’s Waldraum event space.

Prof. Dr. Yuka Oyama took up the post of professor of sculpture/jewellery in the Art faculty at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle on 1 October 2024. Oyama was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1974 and studied jewellery and light metals at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (USA) as well as jewellery and design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich under Prof. Otto Künzli and fine art under Prof. Asta Gröting. In 2003, she became a master student under Prof. Otto Künzli. She received her doctorate in artistic research from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway in 2017 with the title The Stubborn Life of Objects. In her work, she explores how personal objects carry imagined, active, fluid and dynamic inner forces and how these can be made accessible through wearable sculptures.

Daniela Bystron, an art historian and educator, has been curator for outreach at the Brücke-Museum in Berlin since 2018. Prior to that, she headed art education from 2006 to 2018 at both the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart and the Neue Nationalgalerie.

We are committed to respectful interaction. Discriminatory behavior has no place at our events.

Participation in public events is included with museum admission. No advance registration is required.