YEAR III
2024/2025
MAXINE WEISS
Maxine Weiss (*1992) graduated in 2024 with honors as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Alexandra Bircken and Professor Raphaela Vogel and was awarded the Debutant*innenförderung prize.
In her artistic practice, which encompasses sculptures, installations, research, and videos, Maxine Weiss pursues a material-based approach wherein all components maintain a mutual and non-hierarchical relationship.
Aeroplastics, Installation, Diploma 2024
JU YOUNG KIM
Ju Young Kim (*1991, Seoul, KR) graduated in 2024 with honors as Meisterschülerin at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Olaf Nicolai.
She explores transitional states and transit zones in her sculptures and installations by combining traditional craft techniques such as stained glass, metal casting, and ceramics with high-tech objects. The works are characterized by surreal elements that have been removed from their original context, offering a new perspective on the phenomena of a globalized world. Landscape motifs and traditional symbolism intersect with industrial products and transportation systems, to depict an accelerated society where various cultural and temporal components converge. In her glass wall works, Kim examines the relativity of space and time from the perspective of a transcontinental traveler.
MICHAEL MÖNNICH
Michael Mönnich, (*1992, Germany) graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Prof. Nicole Wermers.
Michael Mönnich’s works include sculpture, photography and moving images. They deal with questions of aesthetic perception, the conditions of art production and the concept of work in late modernity. His works are characterised by a laconic style of expression and show precise observations with subtle shifts in modes of perception.
Mönnich explores the interface between aesthetic experience and social analysis, questioning the mechanisms and effects of a digitalised meritocracy.
Retina Strength; Bright Nights; light water glas bassin sculptures, 60x200x180cm each
Swimmers UV printed and laser engraved granit plates 4*(60x 100x 2cm)
TATJANA VALL
Tatjana Vall, (*1994, Sombor, Serbia) graduated in 2024 at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with honors (Meisterschülerin) with Pamela Rosenkranz and was awarded the price of the Stiftung Kunstakademie for her diploma work.
Tatjana Vall disrupts conventional perceptions of authenticity, seeking to expose the subtle irregularities inherent in physical reality. Drawing from psychology, art history, and computer and vision sciences, her work operates at the intersection of these disciplines. Her artificial ecosystem installations combine light, sculptures, and mixed-media compositions realized through materials such as silk, metal, paper, and stone.
Ceramic, stainless steel, Alu, motor, polyester, 2 channel video (27 Inch) with sound, 65 x 65 x 218 cm
YOUNSIK KIM
Younsik Kim (*1992, Seoul) graduated in 2024 with honors as Meisterschüler at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich with Professor Alexandra Bircken and Professor Raphaela Vogel and he was awarded the Prize of the Erwin und Gisela von Steiner Foundation.
He is an artist who works with multimedia mediums based on sculpture and installation.
In an era dominated by multimedia contemporary mediums, he works on the theme of the finitude of sculpture's body and existence, and the alternative preservation and restoration of such limitations(the material finitude of the
sculpture, he calls it the physical death of the sculpture).
Recently, he has been working with video and sound and sculptural media with
traditional materials such as ceramics and metal.