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The art academy is a community of artists with different experiences. The exchange between individual positions forms the core of artists鈥� education.  On one hand, the community is the backdrop that serves as a source of inspiration. On the other, it is also that which the artist must distinguish themself from in order to be perceived as occupying an individual position. Her one finds an idyll and, at the same time, a space for competition and struggle, group-formation and retreat. The academy both separates and binds together. Everyone is there鈥� every man for himself. And whoever doesn鈥檛 belong will never make their way in.

The academy is a well-protected archive, newly arranged everyday. It lives on fleeting moments and encounters that are difficult to put into words or even to communicate; on events, about which there is little to say beyond the fact that they took place; on works that are made for eternity.

The exhibition at KIT grapples with numerous instances of these complex oppositions in the academy environment while also offering an overview of different positions and generations. In cooperation with the artists of the Kunstakademie D眉sseldorf, an attempt was made to reflect the many facets of life and work at the academy. The show gathers students and graduates, individual projects and collaborative formats. A particular focus was placed on the handling of documentation and archival materials.  Here, the exhibition space itself takes on an academic character. Some artists were invited to develop special vitrines, which will be used for changing presentations over the course of the exhibition. The dynamic of teaching and learning characteristic this particular university will thus be transported into the context of an exhibition.

The exhibition was conceived by Gertrud Peters and Elmar Hermann and resulted as part of the collaboration with the Kunsthalle D眉sseldorf for their fiftieth anniversary at Grabbeplatz.