Lecturers
Heike Kati Barath.
Heike Kati Barath (*1966) paints and lives in Berlin. Since she graduated at the University of Fine Arts Münster her works have been exhibited across Germany, Europe, New York and San Francisco. She is recipient of grants and awards including the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Preis für Malerei der Stadt Hagen and the Kunstfonds e.V., Bonn. Barath´s work is represented in private, corporate and public collections in Germany and Switzerland. Since 2012 she is a Professor at the University of the Arts Bremen.
Marion Bösen.
1958 I was born in Clüversborstel/Germany, now living in Bremen. From 1983 - 89 I was studying Fine Art at the University of the Arts Bremen, since then I am working as an artist. My printmaking works include photo documentary collections of subjects and objects from daily life. I had regularly solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad, also I am working in the team of a nonprofit producer gallery Herold, Güterbahnhof Bremen.
Jeanne Shange Kalala.
Jeanne is a Graphic Designer, employed as a lecturer in the Department of Visual Communication Design, DUT. She is currently pursuing her PhD studies. Her research topic deals with the implications of decolonisation and internationalisation of higher education and what this means or how this influences the visual communication design field. She has worked a lot with rural craftswomen in creating and designing artefacts from beads under the Siyazama Project, which has collaborated with various designers from different parts of the world.
Ulrike Isenberg.
Born 1952, trained nurse, Film student, Film maker, Camera and sound for cinema and TV films, Workshop management for film and animation at the University for the Arts in Berlin and Bremen, Animationworkshops in my own animation studio with kindergardens, schools, refugees, disabled people and Adults.https://trick47.de/
Jo Voysey.
Jo Voysey explores medicine as a medium for painting. The medicine comprises of selfmedicated pharmaceutical products, tinctures and galenicals. She is interested in the associations suggested by this medicine when it becomes a painted surface, the figurative forms the surface can evoke and how these can transform into visual metaphor for notions of trauma and inevitably, healing. An important component is the unpredictability of the medicine as a means for painting. She is currently based in Durban, South Africa, where she continues her journey as a practicing artist and is a fine art lecturer at Durban University of Technology.
Dane Knudsen.
Dane Stops is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Durban, South Africa. He works both indoors, as an exhibiting fine artist, and outdoors, as a contemporary muralist/graffiti artist. He has been an active contributor to the Durban Mural and Graffiti scene for over a decade. The work he makes has various influences, from painting graffiti to figurative subject matter such as people, birds and dinosaurs.
Kiara Gounder.
I developed a curiosity for fashion artefacting, 3D prototyping and digital technologies as an undergraduate fashion student in 2014. My 3D printed work has since been featured in numerous publications such as The Sunday Times, ELLE Magazine, Visi and Creative Feel. My latest capsule collection, Mutari Corpora, is a fashion interpretation of animal anatomy indigenous to Southern Africa presented as adornment for the female body. I currently lecture Fashion Theory and Computer Aided Design in the Department of Fashion and Textiles at The Durban University of Technology.
Patricia Lambertus.
Patricia Lambertus studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Bremen and graduated in 2004 as a master student. Since then she received numerous scholarships and prizes and her works are shown in several international museums and Kunstvereine. 2014 she started lecturing and teaching at various universities and art schools.
Lorenz Potthast.
Lorenz Potthast was born 1990 in Bremen, Germany. He studied Integrated Design and Digital Media at the University of Arts Bremen. He worked at BAT Centre in Durban South Africa and co-initiated MEET YOUR NEIGHBOURS platform for intercultural exchange. Currently he works as independent Media Artist, as a co-founding member of the Collective for Audio-Visual Art Xenorama and as coordinator of the Digital Impact Lab in Bremen. His works were exhibited worldwide, awared with various awards and he is frequently giving lectures and workshops at different occations.
Chris de Beer.
I lecture Jewellery Design, and approach it from a contemporary Jewellery perspective. This means that my focus is on using traditional Jewellery manufacturing skills to engage with current social, artistic and technical trends. I encourage an autoethnographic approach, making sense of the world by examining the relationship between what one experiences and what is happening in one’s social ethnic context. Hence my interest in the journal as a way to keep track, and contextualise experiences. Since 1988 Currently Head of Fine Art and Jewellery Design Department.
Nicolaas Cloete Human.
Nicolaas Human is a permanent academic staff member at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) since 2016. He currently occupies the position as Head of Department in Visual Communication Design and Programme Coordinator of Graphic Design. He created and exhibited paintings that resulted in some awards, such as being a grand prize winner of an online art challenge by the celebrated historical painter, James Gurney.
Organization
Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh.
Kathrin Gollwitzer-Oh has a MA in Literary Studies, History, and Education from TU Dresden and Georgetown University. Before joining HfK as Head of Research Development and lecturer in 2019, she held positions as research fellow and lecturer at universities in Zurich, Palermo, and at LMU Munich from which she received her Dr. phil. with a study on semantics and narrative constructions of time in premodern literature. She continued her research in the USA, working and teaching at the Department of German and of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, publishing on topics such as history of knowledge, textual criticsm, historical anthropology and historical semantics.
Abida Malik.
Abida Malik has written her dissertation on Plato’s concept of character which she defended in June 2018 at the University of Bonn. She is currently teaching media philosophy and working at the Department of Research Development and Research Funding at the University of the Arts Bremen. Her primary research interests lie in Contemporary Epistemology as well as in Ancient Philosophy (especially Aristotle’s Metaphysics).
Students
Rohini Amratlal.
Rohini Amratlal is a practicing artist who has a National Diploma in Fine Art at the Durban University of Technology and is presently studying her Advanced Diploma (4th year) in Fine Art at DUT as well. Her work focuses on the cultural cohesion of two racial entities and how her identity as a South African Indian woman grows and becomes defined. Rohini has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions in Durban: She has also participated in an exhibition titled: “An Unfurling”, under the Young Artists Project as an intern curator, which was directed by KZNSA.
Armando Ducellari.
Armando Ducellari is born in 1990 in Albania. In 2015 he finished his Bachelor of Multimedial Arts at the I.U.A.V. University in Venice. In 2019 he made his Diploma of Fine Arts at the HfK Bremen, where he currently is a Meisterschüler student with Prof. Heike Kati Barath. Since the beginning of his studies he participated in numerous exhibitions and projects in Albania, Canada, Germany and Italy. He received different mobility grants such as DAAD-ISAP, Erasmus+ and Unidee Residency Programs.
Kira Ronja Häring.
Born in Berlin, in 1995. Studies communication design since 2017 in Potsdam. In 2019 55 weeks internship at Frauke Albers workspace. 2020 changed Universities and now I am studying in Bremen at the HfK. I am working with illustrations, preferably combining analog and digital. I am working with illustrations, preferably combining analog and digital. With the start of my internship I also fell in love with ceramics and I am trying to combine these two fields with each other.
Paul Ole Janns.
Geboren 1986 in Peine, Studium 2014-2020 Studium der Freien Kunst bei Prof. Heike Kati Barath, Hochschule für Künste Bremen.
Painting Oil Acrylic Spray Paint Figurative Nature Comic Sky Perspective Grafitti Colorful Story Political Current Bad Painting Naive Canvas Gangster Dogs Everyday Life Objects Absurd Sadness Happiness Songs Title Music Trains Plane Jet Clouds Cars Pattern Structure Motion Movement Animals Surrounding Observing Strange Feeling Distorted
Manana Kobakhidze.
Manana Kobakhidze is a Georgian Digital artist-in-learning, freelance Illustrator and graphic designer. Due to her cultural background, which is a complex narrated story and a place of contrasted history, she tries to explore different aspects of everyday social existence by creating games, puzzles or riddles to involve audience in a play.Rough environment of her country led her to recreating and reimagining the world, as the givens were scarce and misleading. From that she’s learned to play with imagination and surroundings
Kayla Lambert.
Born in 1999. I am a young woman, with a passion for art and design. I enjoy studying both traditional and digital art and have interests in film and writing. In my own work, I love to give a sense of narrative and storytelling.
Shoji Matsumoto.
Born in 1986 in Kagawa, Japan. Currently studies Fine Art at University of the Arts Bremen. Lives and works in Bremen, Germany.
Through my artistic approaches I would like to explore the possibilities how we could celebrate ourselves being here in this period, even if we are confronted with great hardships. Iattempted to use digital images to present the line between truth and falsehood.
Silindubuhle Mbele.
My name is Silindubuhle Mbele, 20 years of age. I am currently in university doing my second year in Fine Art at Durban University of Technology. I am a very determined individual who is very talented and hardworking.
Haruka Mogi.
1989 born in Tokyo, Japan, STUDIES: 2007-2012 Bachelor of Arts in History, Sophia (Johchi) University, Tokyo, Japan, since 2018 Fine Art, University of the Arts Bremen, Germany.
In my paintings and sculptures, I deal with the portrait. As motifs, I mainly choose clothes, fabric, people and other living beings that can also be imaginary.
Nelisa Ndaba.
To learn, grow and create new, sustainable and innovative ideas within the art and fashion industry and merge the two ideas in an effort to maintain the longevity of art and fashion as a collective.
Student of the Durban University of Technology, Fashion and Textile Design.
Enriqua Purthuman.
Education Bachelors in Design and Communication; currently completing at Durban University of Technology.
My name is Enriqua Purthuman, a Durban artist that has a dream for a dierence. From my very first memories, I really loved art and was interested in art. I began painting and sketching ever since I could hold a pencil. Most of my pieces consisted with human figures as I first began sketching full body figures, then I moved to life size displays and so forth. When I Matriculated I then began to search for where to apply my artistic talents and I unexpectedly found that place in graphic design. Now I do designs and pieces inspired by the anime I watch, the material I read and what I learn every day from the world around me as an artist and designer.
Damiyo Sibande.
My name Is Damiyo Sibande I am currently a 3rd year fine art student at Durban university of Technology. I love animation, I love to draw and make sculptural projects. I’ve enjoyed engaging myself in creative practices for as long as I can remember either drawing or creating a few flip-based animation cinematics on sheets of paper as I child. I started to take on animation seriously while I was in my last year of high school in 2015, I am self-taught and incorporate values I learn in my fine Art studies within my work, and sometimes work freelance commissions either it be my artworks. Or small-scale animation pieces for advertising or promotional purposes.
Kayle Bowes.
My name is Kayle Bowes, I am a Jewellery design and manufacture student at Durban University of Technology, currently doing my Advance Diploma. I completed my Diploma and took part in the graduate exhibition at the Durban Art Gallery in 2019. My current topic is organic jewellery and I am exploring growth from three different magnifications using enamelling and casting techniques.
Sbusiso Duma.
I create paintings that build on my cultural experiences in the new South Africa as well as my interest in the natural flora of the country. I started painting in 2018 and spent a year learning under The BAT Centre being taught by artists such as Philani Maphumlo and Mhlonishwa Chiliza. In 2019 I joined the Durban University of Technology as a student and have since had a number of my paintings worn by students on their denim jackets.
Kim Heintzen.
Student of the University of the Arts Bremen.
Akhona Khambule.
My name is Akhona Khambule a student at Durban University of Technology doing my second year in Fine Arts. I major in printmaking and sculpture and some of my work has been exhibited in the Tatham Gallery in Pietermaritzburg.
Yohan Koo.
Studies: Since 2016 Fine Art, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Germany, Prices: 2020 young Korean Artist Festival Committee, Committee Award, South Korea.
I having a big risk of gaze. However, I try to accept the gaze which coming to me. Interest cannot always be negative. I believe that when everything is interested and respected, many problems in the world can be solved easily. I want to be a sort of bridge with my own experience for the people.
Lisa-Marie Liu.
Lisa-Marie was born in 1994 in Saarbrücken. She studies Digital Media at the University of Bremen and HfK Bremen.
Lindiwe Mbambalala.
I am Lindiwe Mbambalala, currently doing my 2nd year level in Fine Art, Durban University of Technology (DUT). I major in Painting and Sculpture. In 2018, I obtained a National Certificate (N6) in Art and Design at College of Cape Town, there in I majored in Graphic Design and Graphic Processes. In July 2020, Women in Mining SA (WIMSA) commissioned me to produce a portrait of a women who is a mine worker.
Wiebke Mertens.
Born 1997 in Suhl, Germany, Studies Fine Arts at University of the Arts Bremen since 2017, Cusanuswerk grant since 2019.
I’m showing excerpts of the artist book that I worked on during the summer school. It is referring to places from childhood that are long gone, moments of togetherness and separation, family history and story telling. I worked in different media such as painting, drawing and collage.
Mmaphuti Movundlela.
Born in Thembisa (township in the east of Johannesburg, SA), moved to Rustenburg at age 6 and in 2016 I finished grade 12 at Rustenburg Technical High School were I was part of the LRC Committee. Took a gap year in 2017 because of financial set backs at home so started freelance photography. 2018 enrolled to Boston City Campus to study a one-year course: Small Business Owner, in the same year started working for Ogorgeous Modelling Academy as an in house photographer. 2019 enrolled to Durban university of Technology for a Diploma in Fashion Design where I am currently doing my 2nd year.
Ntfombiyembuso Ndzimandze.
I am currently doing my second year at the Durban University of Technology studying fine art, I major in Painting and sculpture and I also do murals as well. Once I have exhibited my paintings in an exhibition that took place at Station drive, at the plant under Intellectual Property by Robin Opperman.
Kai Schorowsky.
Born 1992, since 2017 University of the Arts Bremen (Integrated Design Bachelor), 2016 Fachhochschulreife Gestaltung, 2015 Change Communication Frankfurt / Main (2D/3D Artist), 2012 Change Communication Frankfurt / Main (Mediengestalter Digital), 2010 Medientechnischer Assistant.
My work is often based on sketchbooks, in which I draw inspired by my experiences and feelings during daily routines. I am working with fountain pens, colored pencils and acrylic paints.Drawing and animation have been my major fields of study. This workshop revived my love for them and I am looking forward to continue working on them.
Sboniso Bill Sithole.
Education: Matriculated 2017 with Bachelor´s, currently studying Fine Art in Durban University of Technology, currently studying 2nd year Practical studies and 3rd year in Theory. Experience: been working with paint from early age, created logo design for upcoming brands from 2018, started digital art in 2019 Awards: 1st place in the Royal showgrounds exhibition 2015.
Courtney Shelley.
Courtney Shelley is a South African Multi Media artist who is currently studying her second year Bachelor of Graphic Design in Visual communication at the Durban University of Technology. Her work has been in two main group exhibitions, namely in 2017- ArtSpace Durban, pop up and 2018- KZNSA: Durban, November youth exhibition popup. She has a deep passion for design and arts of many forms and is constantly looking to learn new skills and challenge herself. Her subject matter often alludes to larger social issues in a disruptive way.
Miyeon Chung.
Education: October 2017 Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Present Department of Fine Arts, Klasse Prof. Meriç Algün and Klasse Prof. Katrin von Maltzahn. Miyeon Chung’s practice started with creating vague images of her unknown anxiety and depression. As she was constantly suffering from depression, which was come from the situation living as an Asian woman in Europe, her perspective of society was changed. Observing hatred of women, which exists on the surface of the society, now she is working on drawing based stop motion animations. Chung thinks herself as a messenger who collects and communicates with what is happening in the present, such as what is happening in reality, social problems, or rejection of minorites.
Ren Evora.
Born in Hannover, studied Integrated Design and Fine Arts at the University of the Arts Bremen. finished the bachelor's degree and is currently in the master's program. The relations that evolve between human nature technology and us definition of absence simultaneousness of closeness and distance the distance to something that is there the presence of something that is not.
Sihle Inensiko.
Student of the Durban University of Technology, Durban, Diploma in Fine Art 2019 (currently in my final year), Exhibitions: 2016 Group Exhibition, Empangeni High School Hall Empangen, 2017 Digi Fest / Final year exhibition DUT (City Campus) 2018 Group Exhibition Durban BAT Center, 2018 Group exhibition DUT Gallery, 2019 Graduate Group exhibition Durban Art Gallery, Durban
Nqobile Khuzwayo.
Educational Qualification: Last school attended: 2016-18 The Kings School West Rand Tertiary Qualification: Durban University of Technology Degree in Visual Communication.
I truly enjoyed the experience and appreciate the opportunity to learn a new skill and meet new people. During that week I learnt to be patient, to not constrict my ideas, to be more forgiving of my mistakes and trust myself more.
Miel Kwak.
Studium seit 2020, Studium der Freien Kunst bei Prof. Heike Kati Barath Hochschule für Künste, Bremen 2016–2020, Studium Malerei/Grafik an der Hochschule der bildenden Künste Essen, Abschluss: Bachelor of Art. Ausstellungen: 2020 Gemeinsam Unterschiedlich, Kunsthaus Mettmann, 2019 Vor Ort, Zeche Dorsten, 2012 Teilnahme an einer Modeveranstaltung in Seoul Samseong-dong Textile Center.
I want my Art to be a Bridge to my Wonderland. So I transform a few things from everyday life in my art world and invite the people.
Siphokazi Makolwa.
An Eastern Cape born visual artist with a national diploma in Fashion and Textile design and currently pursuing her second diploma in Fine Arts at the Durban University of Technology. Her focus is theory and research on the AmaHlubi culture and traditions in an endeavour to preserve and create a record of the culture as it is mostly verbal. Siphokazi recently participated in the KZNSA Kwanele 2020 exhibition as a featured voice.
Lisa Sinan Mrozinski.
Geboren 1988 in Wuppertal, Studium 2011-2016 Kunst und Design, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2016-2018 Freie Kunst bei Prof. Heike Kati Barath, Hochschule für Künste Bremen, seit 2018 Meisterschülerinnenstudium bei Prof. Heike Kati Barath.
Architecture Space Time Intuitive Spontaneous Material Trash New Old Wood Fabric Tape Foil Carpet Painting Room Installation Sound Light Temporary Inside Outside Story Fairy Tale Open Telling Combination Song Drawing Work In Process Colourful Lightning Dada Fluxus Collage Arrangement Interior Fragility Massive Professional Amateur Intervention Scene Humor Childhood Tent Yellow Balkony Railing
Camila Mejia Murillo.
Born in Bogotá Colombia in 1989. After finishing school in 2006, she began to study Foreign Languages and Sociocultural Studies at the University Los Andes in Bogotá. In 2011 she had to break her studies because of personal reason. After that she worked as Au Pair in Frankfurt, Germany. Currently she is a student of Integrated Design at the University of the Arts Bremen since October 2017.
Amy Pieterse.
Last year I completed my Diploma in Fine Art at Durban University of Technology (DUT). I am now currently in my fourth year of study for the Advanced Diploma in Fine Art, also at DUT. I am currently engaging with the issue of plastic pollution, where I work with marine plastic and combine it with the digital. Recently made a digital drawing for the UNDPSA’s Covid 19 awareness campaign. Some of the past Exhibitions that I have been a part of were; When Thoughts Become Things Graduate Exhibition in 2019 and The Closer I Become in 2017.
Yoriko Seto.
In 2019 she completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Integrated Design at the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany. Now she is continuing her studies at the Master Studio “School of Visual Combinations“.
My work is often based on sketchbooks, in which I draw inspired by my experiences and feelings during daily routines. I am working with fountain pens, colored pencils and acrylic paints. Drawing and animation have been my major fields of study. This workshop revived my love for them and I am looking forward to continue working on them.
Joolz* Szymanski.
Born 1979 in Munich, Germany. I have started studying Fine Arts at university of Fine Arts Ottersberg with Prof. Jochen Stenschcke in 2017. Currently I am studying Fine Arts at the University of Fine Arts Bremen with Prof. Heike Kati Barath. Since 2009 I am part of the Artcollective 3B which focuses on silkscreen. In late 2017 I had the opportunity to exhibit works of a common art process in Museo de Arte contemporaneo Maczul Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Technical Support
Timo Johannes.
Timo Johannes is a media artist and designer based in Bremen, Germany. He currently studies in the digital media master programme of the HfK Bremen.
Timo is interested in tools and measuring instruments, and their ability to change our perspective and grasp on our world as well as the entanglement of society and digital technology.
He has shown his works in exibitions in Bremen, Amsterdam and Belgrade.
Hakeem Adam.
Hakeem Adam is a Ghanaian digital artist and freelance arts and culture writer exploring the power of narrative. He is the founder and creative director of DANDANO, a Pan-African cultural platform for African film and music criticism and documentation. Hakeem has exhibited internationally at the CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival in Accra, Ghana (2018); Many Studios in Glasgow, Scotland (2018); Okay Space in New York, USA (2018); and SPACE10 in Copenhagen, Denmark (2019). He has participated in the British Council’s ColabNowNow Residency, Maputo (2018) and the Cryptic International Artist Residency, Scotland (2019). He is currently pursuing a MA in Digital Media from the University of the Arts, Bremen.