ENTBRANNT

Catalog for the ENTBRANNT exhibition - Fine Arts students meet Mary Bauermeister

A fire in Mary Bauermeister’s studio building in Oberagger in April 2019 was the catalyst for a very special kind of art project. The internationally renowned artist approached painting professor Ulrika Eller-Rüter to ask whether she and her art students could take up the idea of her “World Cultural Heritage” project and create something new together from the chaotic remains of the fire.

In July 2019, 14 students from ten different cultures intensively worked for ten days to redesign the wooden framework “World Cultural Heritage,” which Bauermeister had previously presented at the Mittelrhein Museum in Koblenz: “Heirlooms” and fragments of memory from culture and civilization, from Mary Bauermeister’s collection and the fire-damaged room, were incorporated into the wooden sculpture at Alanus University and transformed into a new artwork through a dialogical process. As an individual response to the art project, the students also developed their own works, in which some of the material from Bauermeister’s “archives” and the fire-damaged room found further use.

Find out more here about the “World Cultural Heritage” project (PDF file).