EMAF 2025: Festival Section Campus

The EMAF Campus festival section offers a platform to classes and subject groups from European academies and universities. The students present their work with exciting film programs and diverse exhibitions. The students' contributions can be discovered not only in the art space hase29, but also in the festival cinemas and at various locations in Osnabrück's city center.

The exhibition presents works by students of fine art and art education that were created over the last two years in the basic film/video class at HBK Braunschweig. Films, videos, sculptures, performances and installations explore the connections between individual experiences and social and political contexts. They focus on different perspectives on this year's main theme of witnessing.

The limits of what can be witnessed and the unreliability of memory are at the heart of Medea Feidieker's practice, which also deals with archiving. Kurdish identity and culture, as well as their suppression, are thematically closely intertwined with personal struggles with belonging in Merivan Kılıç's work. Almina Icingil combines questions of class, migration, gratitude and care with gestures of solidarity towards the victims of war crimes. Nici Götz shows how ideologies of binary gender are anchored in institutional architecture and practices performative resistance. Embryonic ultrasound portraits, which are usually intended to provide gender certainty, are radically reread by Mika Malon Rüffert, who negotiates gender as potential rather than as judgment. Lucian Loebner provides insight into the morning heaviness of a depressed self that would be difficult to exploit on social media. In the complex narratives of suKim (Jisu Kim), the past merges with the present in surprising ways. Using delicate means, Tom Brück creates a place where traumatic experiences within the gay scene become negotiable. Ama (Emilia Ama Thoms) creates a monument for Black people who were killed by police violence in Germany, and negotiates witnessing as a practice of resistance against ongoing injustice.