Duration: 11.09. - 30.09.2024

Plants are complex ecological beings. They form stable, biodegradable structures made from complex shapes. Within the plant‘s organism, water and air contribute significantly to the stability of these fine structural complexes. In her master‘s thesis “Designing with cellulose, water and air”, Eva Bullermann used plants as a model and worked on material-saving complex structures that incorporate air and water as materials in the design process.

The exhibited samples show models made from the cellulose derivative carboxymethylcellulose, which is used as a thickening agent in the food industry. Derived from the raw material cellulose, it can be mixed with water to form a viscous gel, which can then be poured into molds, foamed and dried.

Eva Bullermann (*1993, Bayerischer Wald ) is a textile and surface designer whose work deals artistically with the genesis of form in biological material, as well as the design of material. Most recently, she worked as a project assistant and designer for Matters of Activity in the project CollActive Materials. In the project, speculative design was tested as a method of science communication through workshops.

Duration: 11.09. - 30.09.2024

The line.

In Lisa Tiemann's case, the most important element of the drawing is conceived spatially. In this work, she combines recycled paper with glazed ceramic.

In her sculptures from the Couples series, Lisa Tiemann explores the relationship between two elements of different materiality. As a starting point, the artist has designed a series of elementary forms and translated each into a pair of sculptures.

Each consists of a ceramic object and a paper object that nestle together, both taking on the same predefined form. While the two elements obviously form a connection and can be perceived as a unit, gaps remain in some places due to displacements. Attractive and repulsive forces act in this gap between the elements and generate a creative field of tension in which equilibrium can also occur.

Lisa Tiemann (*1981 in Kassel) studied fine art at the Berlin University of the Arts under Tony Cragg and Florian Slotawa.

She lives and works in Berlin and has exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and institutions.

Duration: 05.07. - 30.08.2024

Despite advancing digitalization, a large part of bureaucratic processes in Germany still takes place on paper. If one were to place the nearly 12,000 files from the NSU trial on a shelf, it would need to be almost the size of a ten-story building, 35 meters high and 9 meters wide. The work conceived by Dennis Fuchs for the Paper Future Festival aims to provoke thought about these dimensions of bureaucracy in paper form. It consists of files at a scale of 1:8, filled with recycled paper from Berlin's administration. The number of files lined up corresponds to the display case, and the content consists of recycled paper from the surrounding administration. The spines of the files are not labeled, leaving it up to the viewer to imagine their contents. A grid is created, which passersby can only decipher upon closer inspection. The concept of compression plays a role here. Even if many administrative processes are digitized, the sheer volume of regulations, data, directives, and paragraphs remains, albeit in a compressed form. How can bureaucracy reduction be designed beyond digitalization?

Dennis Fuchs (born 1992 in Berlin) still lives and works in Berlin. He studied Art Education and Philosophy/Ethics, as well as Fine Arts with Ina Weber at the UdK Berlin, and in London and Tokyo. He has exhibited in Berlin, Zurich, Milan, and Tokyo, among other places. His works have been awarded the Special Jury Prize of the Takifuji Art Awards Japan in 2018 and the Audience Award of the Kunstverein Ebersberg in 2019. Since 2023, he has been teaching at the Berlin University of the Arts. His artistic work begins with the exploration of mass-produced everyday objects. The design of these objects reveals much about the needs of our hyper-commodified society and, as Bruno Latour notes, they possess an agency. Through their material properties, they shape movements, thought processes, and social relationships. The artist takes advantage of this dynamic interaction by modifying everyday objects to humorously reveal their inherent assumptions and mechanisms. For him, the idea that objects develop a life of their own plays a role.

Duration: 03.06. - 30.06.2024

Sabine Thornau, born in Marburg in 1957, grew up in the creative environment of a tailor's studio and developed a love for colours and shapes at an early age. After training as a glass painter at the Hadamar State Glass College and studying colour design at the IACC in Salzburg, she founded a studio for paper art and objects in 1986. She collaborates with artists and authors, realizes her own book projects and produces paper objects.

Her works have been exhibited in numerous countries, including Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, France, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia and Bulgaria. Thornau organises international exhibitions and gives seminars and workshops in Europe. She has lectureships in France and Finland and has been a member of the IAPMA (International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists) since 2002.