Event as part of the Art:walk Festival
The Akademie-Galerie invites you to the closing evening of the exhibition 100 Years of the Stage Design Class at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Students of the Newton stage design class present contributions to the anniversary and provide insights into 100 years of learning, design and artistic practice.
With the final evening of the exhibition, the Academy Gallery is opening a space for retrospection, dialogue and current perspectives as part of the Art:walk festival. In the anniversary year, students of the stage design class under the direction of Lena Newton have intensively analysed 100 years of studying and teaching stage design. The exhibition and accompanying programme reveal how stage design has developed as an artistic practice over the decades: between space, material, narration and experimental thinking. On Museum Night, the project will culminate in an open closing evening with contributions and programme items from the class. Presentations, performative elements and discussions will provide an insight into the results of the joint research and the working methods of today's students. The evening is not intended as a formal conclusion, but as an open format that connects the past and present. 100 years of stage design will not be dealt with chronologically, but made legible as a living process - characterised by individual handwriting, changing questions and the continuous examination of space and the public. In the context of the Art:walk Festival, the Akademie-Galerie thus becomes a place for dialogue about artistic training, collective work and the role of stage design in the course of time. (Source: Art:walk Festival)
