First anniversary of spce Muthesius and upcoming programme

Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design is delighted to announce the one-year anniversary of spce | Muthesius and the start of a new cycle with the interdisciplinary exhibition project Future Night Train—an installation.

spce | Muthesius is a curated exhibition space led by artistic director Sven Christian Schuch that engages in dialogue—both internally and externally. Centrally located in downtown Kiel, spce represents a sounding board that picks up on impulses from the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design from all areas of creative, artistic and scientific research, strengthening them interactively and opening them up to a local and international audience.

Based on the faculty subjects of art, art education, communication design, industrial design and spatial strategies/scenography, spce examines the question of how young artists and designers can present their work and enter the public arena. What happens in this special moment, the act of exhibiting, of presenting?

spce creates a place that, in addition to its representative function, understands exhibiting as a process-based, researching practice, using curatorial means to design aesthetic-sensual spaces for experience and thought for a collective social discourse.

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Future Night Train—an installation
July 19–October 14, 2023
Opening: July 18, 6pm

In no other type of travel are such a variety of magical experiences possible as on a night train. The passing landscapes and cities in the transition from day to night to day. The special structure of the sleeping compartments and the view outside. The boundaries between decidedly private and social spaces. The service of the train attendants. Breakfast before arrival. The ability to actually sleep. The awareness of travelling with almost zero emissions.

The Future Night Train project takes the position of a maximum of quality experience for a future design of mobility for a progressive democratic society in the 21st century.

The journey on the night train is supposed to be a multi-layered sensory-physical experience, a different kind of travel that embodies a simple but truly highly complex possibility: deep sleep. The exhibition atmospherically places the magic of traveling through the night in creative contexts and secretly awakens the desire to never want to travel any other way again.

The exhibition Future Night Train is a interdisciplinary project of the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design for the M.A. Majors in Spatial Strategies, Medical Design, Interface Design and Interactive Information Design in collaboration with spce | Muthesius.

Exhibition design
Students MA Spatial Strategies (Prof. Manfred Schulz): Roma-Nastasia Nebel, Tobias Pöpping, Weda-Josephine Poppinga, Svenja Schaller, Nicoline Schumacher, Anne Wegener.

Industrial design train
Students MA Medical Design (Prof. Detlef Rhein): Julius Bahl, Yiyin Mei, Giwon Min, Matthias Stütz.

Interaction and information design
Students MA Interactive Information Design (Prof. Tom Duscher) and MA Interface Design: Veronika Martin, Jonas Veenhues, Yu-Chang Wu, Yang Yang.

spce | Muthesius
Artistic Director Sven Christian Schuch
Team spce | Muthesius: Christian An, Dorothée Brübach, Santiago Insignares, Ana Kostova, Hans Noffke, Anders Prey, Janna Schnoor, Shi Shi, Maj-Brit Wussow.

Graphic design
Exhibition: Mialena Kneschke
Communication: Maj-Brit Wussow