
Marie Gimpel, Judith Kisner, Alex Hojenski, Jasmin Preiß, Julia Rómas, Lea Sievertsen.
Learning from Loheland
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- 💙 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
- 💚 Judith Kisner
- 🖤 Marie Gimpel, Judith Kisner, Alex Hojenski, Jasmin Preiß, Julia Rómas, Lea Sievertsen.
- 💜 Judith Kisner
- 💛 Anne Linke / Henning Rogge
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MILIMANI (EVA HOUSE), Detail, Modular wall installation / Judith Kisner Hamburg, 2020–2023 Textile, wood, paper, glass among others / Photo: Anne Linke
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MILIMANI (EVA HOUSE), Detail, Modular wall installation / Judith Kisner Hamburg, 2020–2023 Textile, wood, paper, glass among others / Photo: Anne Linke

FREE SPIRITS / Alex Hojenski Hamburg, 2023 / Group of 3 objects (steel, various textiles, straw, plastic, coconut fibre) / Photo: Anne Linke

FREE SPIRITS / Alex Hojenski Hamburg, 2023 / Group of 3 objects (steel, various textiles, straw, plastic, coconut fibre) / Photo: Anne Linke

THE CORNERS OF THE ROOM OPEN-UP A SPACE WHICH SUPPORTS ME / Julia Romas / Berlin, 2022–2023 / Film, ca. 20 min. / Idea, Concept: Julia Romas / Direction, Cut, Production Design: Nils Jakob Timm / Photo: Anne Linke

THE CORNERS OF THE ROOM OPEN-UP A SPACE WHICH SUPPORTS ME / Julia Romas Berlin / 2022–2023 / Film, ca. 20 Minuten / Idea, Concept: Julia Romas / Direction, Cut, Production Design: Nils Jakob Timm / Photo: Henning Rogge

KÖRPER UND KOLLEKTIV BODY AND COLLECTIVE / Lea Sievertsen Berlin, 2023 / Digital Print on Tyvek paper / The basis of this work is historical photographic material 1917–1930, © Loheland Foundation Archive / Photo: Anne Linke

KÖRPER UND KOLLEKTIV BODY AND COLLECTIVE / Lea Sievertsen Berlin, 2023 / Digital Print on Tyvek paper / The basis of this work is historical photographic material 1917–1930, © Loheland Foundation Archive / Photo: Anne Linke

LOVABLE INTOXICATING / Jasmin Preiß Berlin, 2023 HD video, 39 minutes / Photo: Anne Linke

LOVABLE INTOXICATING / Jasmin Preiß Berlin, 2023 HD video, 39 minutes / Photo: Henning Rogge

MEMORY LANE Marie Gimpel Berlin / Hamburg, 2023 / Group of six objects (cardboard, wood, memory foam) / Photo: Anne Linke

MEMORY LANE Marie Gimpel Berlin / Hamburg, 2023 / Group of six objects (cardboard, wood, memory foam) / Photo: Anne Linke

Exhibitionview 'Learning from Loheland' / Photo: Henning Rogge

Exhibitionview 'Learning from Loheland' / Photo: Henning Rogge

MILIMANI (EVA HOUSE), Detail, Modular wall installation / Judith Kisner Hamburg, 2020–2023 Textile, wood, paper, glass among others / Photo: Anne Linke
We are directing our attention to Loheland. As a unique settlement and educational project for young women it was founded in 1919 close to Fulda in the Hessian Rhön Mountains. A lively settlement with selfdesigned dwelling houses for educating and housing female students emerged with a big creative drive and talent for improvisation. • Workshops for photography, leather crafts, pottery and wood evolved. The two founders Louise Langgaard und Hedwig von Rohden were educated grammar school teachers and developed a holistic educational training programme. The residents of Loheland gained visibility with their gymnastics and dance shows as well as with their handiworks. They were closely connected with the protagonists of the avantgarde arts and cultural scenes of Weimar, Dresden, Berlin, München and Hamburg. However, today their activities seem to be forgotten. • Learning from Loheland presents this chapter of German design and arts history from the viewpoint of the six contemporary artists – the stage designer and artist Marie Gimpel, the visual artists Judith Kisner and Alex Hojenski, the visual artist and filmmaker Jasmin Preiß, visual artist and musician Julia Rómas, and graphic designer Lea Sievertsen. They intertwine the understanding of Loheland’s students regarding the female* body, their imagery, their affiliation, and valuerelated questions with current, feminist, and personal contexts. The artists’ works are interwoven with a collection of historical pictures and exhibits of Loheland and thus enable a transition from the past to the present. At the same time, they also ask questions concerning feminist cohesion and collective (artistic) structures. What can we learn from Loheland?
Judith Kisner