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Connecting over Bridges

we went back and something shifted

Presentation of art works by students of the Berlin University of Arts

in the KW Institute for Contemporary Art on the occasion of the exhibition “Kazuko Miyamoto – String Constructions”

With works by:
Kaivalya Brewerton, Lucas Dudeck, Luis Fritz, Julia Kafizova, Lee Jiwoo, Jusun Lee, Paula Oltmann, Yoon Park, Alex Ravkina, Sarah Schroth, Katia Lina Sternel, and Franz Warnke

As part of the workshop seminar Connecting over Bridges, developed in cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art on the occasion of the exhibition “Kazuko Miyamoto – String Constructions", students of the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) present their artistic works in the Education Space at KW from January 10 to 18, 2026.

Taking as their point of departure the collective reconstruction of Kazuko Miyamoto’s site-specific works from the early 1980s—bridge constructions made of branches and rope—realised under the title Study on Bridges and installed in the KW courtyard since autumn 2025, the students engaged over several months with key conceptual, formal-aesthetic, and political questions central to the artist’s practice.

Within the shared process of this seminar, twelve artistic positions came together. Despite their differing media, methods, and experiential backgrounds, they entered into a field of resonance, friction, and aesthetic proximity. The newly developed works revolve around questions of holding and being held, fragile forms of cohesion, and processes of growth, decay, and transformation. At the same time, they foreground negotiations between body, material, and space, in which the boundaries between support and burden, order and dissolution, origin and arrival are explored from distinct perspectives.

we went back and something shifted attests to the potential of artistic return: to the shifts that emerge through collective working processes—through research, translation, and reinterpretation—and to the reflective revisiting of shared experiences that have lastingly shaped the works presented here.

Seminar leadership and curation:
Akiko Bernhöft and Sarah Kamender (UdK)

Project management, KW:
Alexia Manzano, Head of Education and Outreach

Project assistance:
Miriam Döring