Post Grounds – A collaboration by students of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) in the Art Collections of Ruhr University Bochum together with its Art History Institute.
Once traversed, it unfolds like a maze – a city within a city. It‘s a modern place of post-war architecture that, at its center, between concrete and art-in-architecture, houses the Art Collections of Ruhr University Bochum.

In the exhibition Post Grounds, students of the KHM enter into a dialogue with many of the works from these collections. Coming from the urban stage seminar, led by Prof. Mischa Kuball (Public Art), they bring their own artistic positions to the collections of the RUB, entering into a dialogue with its exhibits. The participants view the collections as a living, breathing space where past and future come together.

The exhibit grants insights to places that are easily overlooked and with performances, works in public spaces and interventions within the collections, tries to relate them to the rest of the campus. Thematically, the works range from thoughts on the physicality of bodies, to architectural violence and to questions of remembering. The Art Collections, places of art historical theory and museological praxis, are dynamically enhanced by the multifaceted views of the students.

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Post Grounds – Eine Kooperation von Studierenden der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) in den Kunstsammlungender Ruhr-Universität Bochum mit ihrem Kunstgeschichtlichen Institut.

Betritt man den Campus der Ruhr-Universität Bochum wirkt er wie ein Labyrinth, eine Stadt in der Stadt, ein Ort moderner Nachkriegsarchitektur, in dessen Zentrum sich – zwischen Beton und Kunst am Bau – die Kunstsammlungen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum befinden.

In der Ausstellung Post Grounds bringen Studierende des Seminars urban stage unter der Leitung von Mischa Kuball (Public Art) ihre eigenen künstlerischen Positionen ins Campusmuseum ein und treten mit Exponaten der Kunstsammlungen in einen Dialog. Die Beteiligten verstehen die Sammlung als einen lebendigen Ort, an dem Vergangenheit und Zukunft aufeinandertreffen.

Die Ausstellung öffnet Blicke in Räume, die sonst leicht übersehen werden und tritt mit Performances, Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum und Interventionen in den Sammlungen in Bezug zum Campus. Thematisch changieren die Arbeiten von Beschäftigung mit 
Körperlichkeit über architektonische Gewalt bis hin zu Fragen des Erinnerns. Die Kunstsammlungen, Ort der kunsthistorischen Lehre und musealen Praxis, werden in ihrer Funktion dynamisch um die vielfältigen Blickwinkel der Studierenden erweitert.
 
Dialogische Wege durch Post Grounds
Wie entsteht Kunst im Spannungsfeld von Architektur, Körper und Erinnerung?
Bei der dialogischen Führung durch die Ausstellung Post Grounds kommen Studierende der Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM) und des Kunstgeschichtlichen Instituts der RUB miteinander – und mit euch – ins Gespräch.

Gemeinsam führen sie durch die Ausstellung und eröffnen Einblicke in künstlerische Arbeitsprozesse, Sammlungsinterventionen und kuratorische Entscheidungen.
Ein Rundgang von Studierenden für Studierende – offen, diskursiv und auf Augenhöhe.

📅 04. Februar 2026, 14 Uhr
📍 Kunstsammlungen der RUB / Campusmuseum


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Projections Over White Walls

Helin Korkmaz & Yuna-Lee Pfau
2-Channel Video Installation
18:40 Min.

2025






















PROJECTIONS OVER WHITE WALLS is an investigation into the politics of architecture and how bodies occupy it. Every space, including the Mack Pyramide, becomes what it is through and within the societal fabric it is embedded in. The pyramid was originally commissioned to be an exclusive space. Once the storage and production house of a pharma company, now it becomes - if just for a moment - public and thus open to have its spatial politics dissected

Four performers move in, around, on top, through, and against its complex architecture. They start off by obeying the kinetic configurations that the space dictates and then gradually find their own form of spatial take-over. A wish for subversive movement and all its various strategies unites them as they become one and then separate again. Their intervention defies the white supremacist conformism that is portrayed in the eclecticism of the pyramid.

In its different chapters, the video dissects the underlying normative and symbolic layers of architecture as a performative instance through incorporating theories from Judith Butler, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and others, and through the raw and intrusive experiences of the performers and transitory point cloud camera drives. 

The video essay poses questions like: How does the conviction of European modernism leave traces of its patriarchal dreams in the architecture of postmodernism?  

Is the eclectic nature of the architecture derived from cultural assimilation? Do they build a cohesive space? How can we uncover the political orders and societal normativities that architecture operates under and create our own collective momentum? 



BIO


Helin Korkmaz (*1998) is from Istanbul, has a bachelor‘s degree in architecture and is currently studying media art in Cologne. She works with sonic, spatial and performative practices at the interface of architecture, sound and film. In her works, she attempts to break open the seemingly perfect façade of rigid structures by revealing the resilience of those that embed „chaos“ within themselves. She seeks the political and transversal on a micro scale and aims to unleash routined absurdism in a humorous manner.

Yuna-Lee Pfau  (*2001) is an interdisciplinary artist from Cologne, Germany who deals with questions of scientific, postcolonial and queerfeminist critique in essayistic videos, installations, and performances. Their work operates at the intersection of audiovisual art and scientific research. They are active as a performer, writer, and director.



CONTACT

helinkorkmaz.cargo.site 
@hel.in.korkmaz 
@y.pfau
h.sezenkorkmaz@gmail.com 
yuna.lee.pfau@gmail.com