Master students Exhibition 2025

what is that invisible thing your arm is resting on

The exhibition of the Meisterschüler*innen from the University of the Arts Bremen offers a multifaceted insight into the current artistic production of the Hanseatic city. On the third floor of the Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, twelve artists present new works across more than 800 square meters, opening a dialogue on social and biographical disruptions, political transformation, and personal empowerment—between the fundamental and the everyday, the personal and the collective. The title what is that invisible thing your arm is resting on functions not solely as a question, but as a reference to the search for visual support, physical grounding, and an invisible moral foundation.

The exhibition brings together time-based works and expansive installations that combine sculptural elements with sound and film. Several sculptural positions engage with forms that derive directly from bodily and biographical contexts. Other works explore the creation and perceptibility of digital worlds across media, addressing themes such as the melancholy of urban in-between spaces or voyeurism on social media platforms.

In this complex web of references, the diffuse and the explicit often emerge simultaneously. What is concealed or revealed is frequently shaped by the contingencies of the medium itself. Just as the blurred background of a video chat seems to follow its own rules in deciding what remains visible, this exhibition unfolds its own logic of making visible. Spatial and social contexts are not mere backdrops—they open a space for self-examination. What do we lean on? What underlies our perception? And how fragile is that which holds us?

A special highlight of the exhibition is the awarding of the Karin Hollweg Prize, one of the most prestigious art prizes for graduates of German art academies. With a prize sum of €18,000, it also includes a solo institutional exhibition by the prizewinner in Bremen. Closely tied to the exhibition itself, the prize emphasizes the strong connection between the university and the city of Bremen.

A catalogue will be published to accompany the exhibition.

Curated by Julian Lautenbach.

You can find more information on the Weserburg website.