Duration: 15.08. - 16.09.24

The project "From Wood to Paper" by the Chair of Biogenic Polymers at the Technical University of Munich shows the transformation of wood into cellulose and then into paper. Starting materials such as balsa and beech wood are chemically delignified, whereby the lignin is removed and the cellulose structure is retained. Various stages of delignification are documented, from solid wood to cellulose fibers and paper variants. Innovative materials such as bacterial cellulose foam and cottonide are also presented. Microscopic images illustrate the structural changes during the process. The project illustrates the conversion of wood into sustainable paper and cellulose products.

Duration: 15.08. - 16.09.24

PaperProducts is a semester project by students from the Design Faculty at the Technical University in Nuremberg. In a three-month discourse, everyday products are created that consist mainly of cellulose. To do this, the products, their production, their use and their entire life cycle must be rethought in order to meet the special challenges, but also the versatile design possibilities of the material. Material experiments are carried out as models, and tools and production methods are developed. Our hypothesis is tested using prototypes - paper can be more than just packaging! Paper does not have to be a disposable product! And: paper as a serious material opens up new possibilities in product design!

Supervised by Prof. Olaf Thiele in the module Computer Generated Object Design

Duration 15.08 - 16.09.24

The German-Argentinian artist Sofia Nordmann, who lives in Berlin, uses her own technique and aesthetic to depict philosophical content. She playfully cuts or tears up her handwritten philosophical writings, intimate love letters, her own pictures and drawings, family photos, antique maps and so on, and then constructs three-dimensional collages from them. By concealing the original content, she draws attention to it and points to the importance and beauty of the invisible. Her wall objects consist of light-flooded, translucent layers, snippets and strips of paper, which open up more hidden color spaces the more intensely they are viewed. The strong suggestive power of her works is an invitation to a sometimes deep, sometimes funny journey of discovery into one's own world of thoughts.

 Her concern is the hidden, the metaphysical level behind the visual and the layers of reality that have a great influence on us even though we cannot perceive them with our five senses. She is interested in possible processes of the creation of reality and unconscious communication.

Duration: 15.08. - 16.09.24

 In her work, the artist makes invisible social structures visible and explores the limits of what is possible. For example, by founding a parallel academy in the already existing Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, which highlights and questions the institutional structures of this educational space ( www.peacedamage.org ).

 In recent years, she has not only been dealing with resistant structures, but also with resistant materials: among others, the stinging nettle - an underestimated plant that is used both as a natural medicinal and

 Food is used as well as an alternative resource (including the production of textile fibers or insulation materials). Her work ranges from performative interventions in public spaces to usable sculptures in the white cube. Collective and independent work overlap and enrich each other in her practice.

 Her works have been shown at Manifesta 12 in Palermo/Italy, at the Kunsthaus Dahlem Berlin, the Galerie der Künstler*innen and the Lothringer 13 Halle in Munich, among others. She received the Antonia and Herrmann Götz Foundation Prize for Young Art (2022) and was a Germany Scholarship holder of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (2023/4).

Duration: 15.08. - 16.09.24

"For some time now I have been working on the theme of cocoons made from various paper materials, as a sculpture, picture or collage. No other material in art is as sensual, present and changeable as paper.

 The cocoon stands for development, transformation, innovation, it always gives birth to new mutants from the same structure. It offers protection, it is metamorphosis and magical power at the same time. Every person has their very own cocoon in which they preserve their creativity, their individuality, their emotions, their ego, but also their fear, their aggression, etc. The cocoon enables potential for action on a very subtle level, for development in a protected environment. It stands for our time in which constant actions and decisions create a latent dynamic. A cocoon is space, a shell, a skin."

 ~Barbara Friebe

 Friebe completed an apprenticeship as a display designer and worked as a freelance designer for many years.

 Over the past 15 years, she has turned more to art, working in many techniques and with different materials, especially paper. It is important to her to test many different design possibilities.

Duration: 15.08 .- 16.09.24

Annelinde de Jong (*1982, Enkhuizen, Niederlande) ist eine bildende Künstlerin und lebt und arbeitet in Amsterdam. Sie studierte an der Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam und an der Hogeschool Sint-Lukas in Brüssel. Für ihre neuesten Werke sammelt Annelinde lokale Pflanzenmaterialien wie gemähtes Gras, beschnittene Zweige oder gefallene Blätter an verschiedenen Orten in der Stadt. Unter Verwendung des traditionellen japanischen Papierherstellungsprozesses verarbeitet Annelinde diese Pflanzen zu einer Pulpe, aus der sie Papierbögen herstellt.

Aus dieser ungewöhnlichen Sammlung von Pflanzen baut sie Objekte und räumliche Installationen, mit denen Betrachter auf physische und sinnliche Weise in Beziehung treten können. Jedes natürliche Material verleiht dem Papier und damit den Objekten seine eigene Farbe, Struktur und Textur.

Indem sie das Äußere ins Innere bringt, zielt die Arbeit darauf ab, über unsere Beziehung zu unserer unmittelbaren Lebensumgebung und die Art und Weise, wie wir sie für uns beanspruchen, nachzudenken. Inwieweit können wir unsere Umgebung entsprechend unseren Bedürfnissen gestalten?

Duration: 09.08. - 14.08.24

 Performance on 9.08.2024., at 13.00

Lili Theilen is currently studying in the context painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In her works she deals with the realities of life for female and queer people. Performance and painting often go hand in hand.

 The question of power structures in art history and queer visibility in public space are reflected in Theilen's work. With interactive performances, she tries to develop new accessible spaces; they arise from a constant interplay. She starts from her point of view as a person read as female. Elements that symbolize protection (oversized coats, castles, houses, etc.) demonstrate self-empowerment and strength. Nevertheless, the fragility of the subject and the situation are immediately exposed. She sees this inseparability of hard and soft as characteristic of my work. For the Paper Future Lab, Theilen is building a house out of around 900 paper bricks. This house symbolizes a fragile future that lies ahead for people of her generation. And it contains the desire to be able to build one's own four walls in order to create a - at least mental - safe space. Due to the climate crisis, owning one's own house is no longer conceivable. Together with the photographer Anna Niedermeier, the artist is exploring the concept of living.

Duration: 10.07. - 14.08.24

Ilka Raupach's artistic works arise from the tension between culture and nature.
She sees it as an attempt to find her bearings, as an experience and exploration of the natural space with all of her senses and thus ultimately as an exploration of the relationship between humans and nature. The countries covered in ice and snow and the Brazilian rainforest in particular amaze her and are an inspiration at the same time.

Ilka Raupach was born in Hennigsdorf in 1976.

Trained as an ivory carver and master in Michelstadt as well as Uummannaq and Ilulissat, Greenland; studied art/free sculpture at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle and at the Art Academy in Bergen/Norway, graduating in 2005; 2009-2019 artistic/scientific employee at the Institute for Architecture-Related Art at the TU Braunschweig.

Participation in numerous international projects and exhibitions: among others 2014 The Arctic Circle, Art and Science Expedition Svalbard; 2015 Artist in Residence, Acaia Institute, São Paulo, Brazil; 2022 LABVERDE Residence, Amazonas, Brazil.

Duration: 10.07. - 14.08.24

During the Covid-19 pandemic, book and paper artist Drew Matott spent two years walking the streets of Hamburg, picking up discarded face masks from the ground. He brought the material back to his studio in Hamburg, where he disinfected it, shredded it, and turned it into handmade paper. He created over 4000 sheets of A3 paper for artists such as A Revolutionary Press (USA), Jana Schumacher (Germany), and Thomas Judish (Germany).

 In addition to producing simple sheets of paper, Matott also used the shredded face masks to produce a series of paper portraits of the different variants. These panels were formed by pouring the pulp onto a 115 cm long mold, with the wet panel being loaded with water by spraying holes. After the water was removed from the paper container, the freshly formed sheet of paper was selectively hand-pressed and then printed using a silkscreen stencil and finely processed and pigmented cotton pulp. The end result was a series of pulp paintings that were exhibited in the United States, Germany, France, and Slovenia.

 Matott seeks to draw attention to the extent of the waste generated during the pandemic, reminding people of the severity of the Covid threat and the reasons why masks were worn in the first place.

 Text by Drew Luan Matott

Duration: 10.07. - 14.08.24

As people become more aware of the impact of their choices on the environment, they are increasingly looking for eco-friendly products with a lower carbon footprint. The issue of social responsibility plays an important role in sustainable consumption.

Releaf Paper is a young Ukrainian company committed to sustainability in the packaging sector. By recycling plant waste into valuable raw materials, Releaf Paper offers an alternative to virgin fiber in paper production. The company not only produces paper from leaf waste, but also supplies sustainable packaging made of Releaf Paper to various brands. This eco-friendly packaging is an excellent green alternative to plastic and wood paper carrier bags.

Duraion: 10.07. - 14.08.24

In collaboration with an online bed retailer, the LattenLabor is developing new applications for slatted frames made from old bed frames and returns. The aim is to exploit the spring slats and frame parts made from high-quality beech wood as a material and to put them to further use. This creates a series of light, elegant small pieces of furniture that can be used in a variety of ways.

The participants in the LattenLabor see their work as an invitation to imitation and want to encourage people to creatively transform materials that have fallen out of use in their own everyday lives and to put them to new uses.

The LattenLabor is a project by Kunst-Stoffe e.V. in collaboration with the Haus der Materialisierung. Designers involved so far are Stefan Klopfer (stefan is doing things), Wanja Scheuring, Paul Friedl, Matthias Finck and Corinna Vosse.