Results - Funken Akademie

FUNKEN-PRESENTATION-DAYS-12+13_10_2023-(c)JohannesRichter-90

The video shows the artists and researchers working together, as well as early works and artistic prototypes from the Summer School. The footage is accompanied by statements from the participating organisations and artists.

Recap | FUNKEN European Summer School

At the FUNKEN European Summer School, 30 young international artists came together with renowned mentors from the art world to conduct research and experiments in the laboratories of Fraunhofer ENAS and Fraunhofer IWU in a close exchange between art and science.

Like astronauts in full protective gear, the participants of the week-long workshop approach the life-threatening ideal environment of glass: 1400-degree hot furnaces. Sunburns ignite on recklessly uncovered skin areas. The crucibles in the long tongs are heavy, and the glass flows like honey over sand molds. On the way back to the cold world, it stretches, cracks, and splinters. With makeshift cooling ovens, they strain not only the material but also the university’s resources. Everyone still has a roast somewhere in the oven, the cooling curves are at their limit, the fusing oven burns 800 degrees hotter than planned, and the plasma torch whistles until finally, the pizza oven brings together the participants and everyone from the Glass Institute and Thermal Engineering.

MELT showcases works by the artist collective Art Ashram, with Klara Adam, Maja Nacke, Georg Scherlin, Daria Wartalska, and Markus Zimmermann, in an intervention at the Terra Mineralia Freiberg – Mineral Exhibition TU Bergakademie Freiberg. Currently on view at the Center for efficient high-temperature processes and materials conversion in Winklerstrasse 5 in Freiberg, weekdays from 9–17 o’clock.

Created within the framework of Pop Up Science – a format by 4transfer. The event series conveys scientific knowledge and research findings to a broad audience. In its second edition, 4transfer is cooperating with the FUNKEN Academy of Klub Solitaer e.V.

INTERVENTIONS IN THE MINERAL COLLECTION OF TU BERGAKEDMIE FREIBERG | Melt

Through industrial manufacturing, glass has become a product that remains invisible in everyday life. We drink from it, look out the window, and tap on our touchscreen. Only when we work with glass ourselves does the true nature of the material become visible - a liquid, a chaotic cluster of molecules, constantly flowing, MELT.

Photo: Jan Felber

Smart³, Dresden, Schloss Albrechtsberg, Zukunftsimpulse 2022

Exhibition at Galerie Hinten, Chemnitz

Exhibition at smart³ Zukunftsimpulse – conference Schloss Albrechtsberg, Dresden

IF/THEN exhibitions

The results of the course if/then - artificial natures were subsequently presented in an exhibition at the Galerie Hinten as well as at the expert conference smart³ Zukunftsimpulse.

Lab 2025 at Ars Electronica Center | CCI Lab

The results of Labor 2025 were exhibited at the Ars Electronica Center Linz in 2021. Various video documentaries, interviews and talks were produced in this context.