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Earth Day 2025
For the second time, the AKA Earth Day took place at the ABK Stuttgart on April 22, 2025. On this occasion, students and faculty transformed the Weißenhof campus into a center for environmental awareness and sustainability, inspired by the global „Earth Day.“ The program included a wide range of student initiatives aimed at strengthening environmental consciousness at ABK.
A special innovation this year was the AKA Earth Day Prize, donated by the Friends of the Academy Stuttgart Association, which was awarded in the afternoon before the AKA Earth Day Tree in front of New Building 1 to three outstanding student initiatives. The jury consisted of Anja Necker, the state’s climate protection manager, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb from the project space kunst [ ] klima, and OA Krimmel from the Friends of the Academy Stuttgart Association. The prize, worth 1,000 euros, was equally awarded to Jakob Mayer and Anne Kraft for the project „Springbrunnen“, to Meike Schmitz for „Berta, Family & Friends“, and to Florence Nitschmann for „One has to die: circular weaving Paulus“.
Photo Credits: Martin Lutz
The „AKA Earth Day“ was organized by the Climate and Energy Circle of ABK Stuttgart (abk_eco) under the leadership of Prof. Dr. h.c. Patrick Thomas, Communication Design, and Prof. Veronika Aumann, Textile Design.
„Earth Day“ has been celebrated annually on April 22 since 1970 to raise awareness for environmental protection. Over the years, this day has evolved into a global movement in which individuals and organizations advocate for environmental awareness, political change and sustainable practices.
Staub zu Staub (dust to dust)
From Dietrich Heißenbüttel / January 29, 2025 Kontext Wochenzeitung (Kontext – weekly newspaper)
Three years ago, Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb turned a part of her studio into the exhibition space “
kunst [ ] klima”. She does not want to prescribe solutions to climate change, but rather give impulses.
To the report Staub zu Staub (German)
Desertification / Opening and Filmscreening
This event was a part of the exhibition DESERTIFICATION in cooperation with the KV Neuhausen and the WUNDERKAMMER Bad Cannstatt.
On Sunday, October 20, 2024 we opened the exhibition of Border fruits #4 by Jan Nicola Angermann and showed the following films:
- Leila Hekmatnia MAGRAB, 2023
- Ramesh Holbole AAGASWADI, Village in the Sky, 2018
- Maan Barua Among the Bone Swallowers, 2024
- Ahmed Rasel Memories of Lost land, 2018-2023
Project space kunst [ ] klima, Breitscheidstraße 104A, Stuttgart-West.
Fotosommer / Photofestival Stuttgart 2024
This year we joined the FOTOSOMMER with VERMILLION from Tiago A. Cabrita.
Sunday July 21, 2024 from 5 to 8 p.m. Duration of the exhibition – July 19 to July 26, 2024
