Softimage

The Softimage project focuses on the poetic view of digital and analogue elements in the visual arts, based on the latest (post-)digital innovations in artistic media. The exhibition includes works by 12 students of the weissensee school of art and design berlin as part of the ‘Softimage’seminar led by Volo Bevza. Their artistic endeavours mainly revolve around the exploration of analogue and digital practices in the fine arts, specifically in the contemporary context of the fluidification of images that are shaped by constant editing and change. From painting on canvas to prints made with machines and 3D tools to installative works, the projects reflect a diverse artistic landscape and highlights the perspectives and possibilities that arise from the symbiosis of analogue and digital techniques.

After three years of intensive work, the results and research of the seminar are presented in the group exhibition at CANK. The exhibition thus offers the opportunity to gain an insight into the students' artistic development. Thematized in the show is a variety of topics and concepts such as ‘poor image’ by Hito Steyerl (Delphine Wigger), the use of photo templates in painting (Christopher Krause, Leo Schilz), AI-generated body images and digital interfaces in painting (Luka Keresman, Viola Del Monte), digital drawings and photogrammetrically generated objects (Katja Breder, Anton Kruse), operative images (Gabriela Lesmes López), screenshots as a medium (by Lara Jordan), image composition in Photoshop (Fruzsina Kiss, Hannes Hochmuth, William Ye) and finally the materialisation of digitally generated artefacts, the simulation of a simulation.