The Kunst-Quartier of the BBK (Association of Visual Artists) and the Galerie im Fenster of the Institute of Art / Art Education at the University of Osnabrück will present works from time-based art (film, sound, performance, and digital formats) as well as SteamSpace projects with design fiction/ design futuring. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Maths. The research focus of Prof. Dr. Bettina Bruder integrates the interplay of social structures and technical systems in an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge practice.

The invited artists and designers from Steam- Space, including Hagen Betzwieser, Elke Reinhuber, Vera Nowottny, Merlin Marski, and Agnieszka Anna Wołodźko, worked alongside students to explore the intersection of science, technology, and artistic practice. The process involved decoding perception and making the invisible visible, resulting in models of experimental learning that not only impart knowledge, but also reflect on and question the institutional codes of science and culture.

Artistic experiments in care, participation, and ecological responsibility create a malleable space of possibility, making alternative forms of organisation, assemblies, and cooperative structures visible. Together, the works negotiate the open process that exists between rules and imagination. They explore how other codes, temporary alliances, and hybrid learning spaces might emerge. In this context, assembly becomes a space for artistic research, networking, exchange, socio-technical exploration and social vision – provisional, permeable and changeable.

The films in the time-based art section (Prof. Dr. Barbara Kaesbohrer) explore themes of incompleteness, fragility, family and self-assertion.

⟼ Project supervisor: Prof. Bettina Bruder
⟼ Image: Part of SteamSpace-Explorer-Kit by Hagen Betzwieser

Ohne Titel / Untitled
⟼ Josefin Böhme
Video, 2026, 1’

Between a state of limbo and disruption, a play on expectation and decay unfolds.

Verschwinden / Disappearance
⟼ Anastasia Brinkmann
Video, 2025, 4’

What effect do repressed emotions have on the mind and body?

Journey
⟼ Jules Deeken
Video, 2025, 1’

An animation that takes us on a dreamlike journey between longing, helplessness, and the longing for freedom.

How the World Feels Sometimes
⟼ Carina Exner
Video, 2025, 2’

What do we feel in a world of constant stimuli and sensory overload?

Cycle
⟼ Jonas Hensel
Video, 2025, 2’

A boy buys a snack at a deserted gas station. But time…

Guten Morgen / Good Morning
⟼ Anna Wenderoth
Video, 2025, 2’

The daily struggle of living with depression.

Für die Familienchronik / For the Family History
⟼ Julia Schilowski
Video, 2025, 13’

The film tells the story of a family torn apart by migration and the journey back in search of a home and a sense of belonging.

Am Rüschenweg
⟼ Felicitas Dietl
Video, 2025, 7’

Through quiet images, this documentary essay explores the multifaceted experience of grief.

• Sektion Section: Campus
• Programm Programme: Osnabrück University