Colorful, humorous, radically contemporary. This is how the age-old medium of woodcuts can be. To accompany the exhibition "Kirchner Woodcuts" (until March 9, 2025), students at Bremen University of the Arts, under the artistic direction of Gabriela Jolowicz, will be exploring woodcuts - and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, the celebrated star of Expressionism. A selection of their experimental approaches can be seen in the New Study Hall of the Kupferstichkabinett.
The works bring Kirchner's pictorial world into the here and now, reinterpreting it and mixing it with the everyday world of a young generation.
It is also not far from the "Intersection" project to the "Interface", the participatory space in the Kirchner exhibition: In the "Schnittstelle" open studio, visitors can look over the shoulders of students cutting wood every fortnight on Tuesdays and Saturdays until the end of the Kirchner exhibition. And they can also try out woodcutting for themselves.