About the person
Professor Nora Fuchs
Prof. Nora Fuchs teaches Plastic Design, Applied Form Design and Artistic Strategies in the Bachelor of Object and Spatial Design as well as in the Master of Scenography and Communication.
As the Faculty's Equal Opportunities Officer from 2017 to summer 2024, she initiated the ≠ Design and Gender event series and organizes the ≠ Design and Gender Award competition once a year. She was a member of the Senate, Deputy Chair of the Examination Board and offers counseling for Bachelor's and Master's applications. She is Chair of the Aptitude Committee for the Bachelor's degree course in Object and Spatial Design.
For student work: www.derweissraum.de(Opens in a new tab)
For artistic research work: www.norafuchs.de(Opens in a new tab)
Consultation hours by appointment by e-mail:
nora.fuchsfh-dortmundde
Vita
Professor Nora Fuchs
is an artist, lives in Berlin and Dortmund.
| * 1964 | in Braunschweig, Germany. |
| 1985 | Studied fine arts at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts. Studied sculpture with Prof. Micha Ullman, Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart |
| 1995 | Residency scholarship for six months in Bad Segeberg / Villa Flath |
| 1995 - 2003 | Artistic assistant at the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus Curation of a one-year private exhibition series in Cottbus, called: For Friends and Relatives |
| 1997 | Studio grant from the state of Brandenburg for: The European Army |
| Since 1999-2020 | Artistic and curatorial work at the Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth |
| 2003 until today | Teaching as a professor in the Faculty of Design at the Fachhochschule Dortmund |
| Since 2010 | Collaboration in the Gesellschaft für künstlerische Gestaltungslehren (GKG e.V.), an international network for the promotion of the role of the visual arts in university education |
| 2015 | Nominated for the HAUS am KLEISTPARK Berlin art prize |
| April - June 2018 and August 2021 |
Artist in residence in Nes, Skagaströnd, Iceland. |
| 2019 | Winner of the competition Schwimmtieralarm. Realization of the work December 2019 to May 2020 in Berlin. |
Teaching area Plastic Design / Applied Form Design
The aim of plastic design is to convey the basics for understanding three-dimensional form and thus to enable the meaningful and conscious handling and use of form in the context of design. A superordinate subject area leaves options open for the students' own viewpoint, so that the tasks contain scope for creative invention. The methodology used is process-oriented, to expand the students' own means of expression in the design of sculptural bodies. This leads to a conscious approach to forms and their creative use. The verbal ability to exchange ideas about form is part of the course content and is taught by means of constant discussions in the group and presentations of the students' own work.
Teaching Artistic Strategies
Our environment is characterized by the existing design. How can this be changed and rethought in a contemporary way? Based on an idea and concept, the focus is on the interplay of form, proportion and material with the surrounding space. Depending on the focus, this can take place in various subject areas, from private living space to the design of public space. Artistic methods are used to experiment, concepts are invented and designs are discussed. Scope for design must be conceived in new and innovative ways and, in the best case, realized.
Project examples
Publications
Publications in the context of teaching
The poetics of space. In cooperation with Prof. Jean Flammang. Publisher: Fachhochschule Dortmund FB Architektur / FB Design An exhibition based on the book of the same name by Gaston Bachelard. Dortmund 2006
Where to put the hairy stuff? In cooperation with Kirsten Behnke. Published by Fachhochschule Dortmund / FB Design. Dortmund 2008
Provisorium / A thing of impossibility? Provisional catalog for the seminar of the same name, handmade designer pieces, edition of 50. Dortmund 2014.
Free space children's room. In cooperation with the Kindermuseum Dortmund. Published by Nora Fuchs.
The aim of the book is to look at the living environment of children in their own rooms from different perspectives. One focus is on recollections of their own children's rooms in the form of personal stories and the qualities or shortcomings they reveal. Supplemented by a historical summary, photographic finds, the museum perspective, interviews with children and a successful exhibition concept, the children's room is intended to attract more attention as a mental space. The book can provide inspiration for a free and sensitive approach to the subject of the children's room for this immensely important social space of action, retreat, shelter or ideally play space.
Edition of 250 copies.
Funded by the IKEA Foundation.
Available from nora.fuchsfh-dortmundde
Published in the fh-presse 2/2020 and in the Fachhochschule Dortmund Research Report 2020.
Catalogs and publications since 2008
Water
Catalog, published as part of the "Water" exhibition as a group catalog."Flow properties" on page 14.
Published by Kunst- und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth. 2023.
ISBN 978-3-00-078539-9
Swimming animal alarm
ONLINE logbook of the participatory work Swimming animal alarm 2019-2020.
https://schwimmtieralarm.de/(Opens in a new tab)
Heaven and earth
Artistic fieldwork under fruit trees
ed. by Axel Schmidt and Miriam Wiesel
Art and culture association Alte Schule Baruth.
Page 12 - 20, Nora Fuchs, garden shed.
Published in 2017
The demise of space is programmed
On systems of order and spatial strategies
Author: Nora Fuchs
Publisher: Kunst und Partner
Published November 2015 in Berlin
ISBN no.: 978-3-938092-07-1
Included in the collection of artists' books of the Kunstmuseum Weserburg Bremen
Höhler Biennale
Art under the old town of Gera.
Published by: Verein zur Erhaltung der Geraer Höhler e.V.
Published in 2013.
Home_Play
Published by Frauenmuseum Berlin / Kunstamt Tempelhof- Schöneberg.
Published March 2012 in Berlin
Colorless. Drawings on the cold
Published by Kunst - und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth. Published in Baruth in 2011.
Supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds and the Stiftung EWE.
ISBN 978-3-938092-05-7
Best of Papa Jo's
Published by Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus.
Brandenburgische Kulturstiftung Cottbus in cooperation with BTU Cottbus.
Published in 2011 by Verlag Martin Wallimann, Alpnach CH
ISBN 978 - 3 - 905969-02-3
20 years of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus
by Günter Bayerl, Hermann Borghorst and Walther C. Zimmerli / Waxmann Verlag Gmbh Perdita von Kraft: Zwischendurch. On the cooperation between the art museum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus / BTU
Cottbus / page 216
ISBN 978-3-938092-11-8 Hardcover edition May 2011.
Half Conversations
Own edition 2009, edition of 100 copies.
Excerpts published in the research report Fachhochschule Dortmund 2011 / page 56 - 61
Flowers for Baruth
Published by Kunst- und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth.
Supported by the Stiftung Kunstfonds. Published 2008 in Baruth.
ISBN 978 - 3 - 00-028480 - 9
Kunststadt-Stadtkunst/ BBK Berlin / Publication of the competition Schwimmtieralarm 2020, page 30.
Exhibitions
2024: Stay as Artist in Residence with the development and realization of the artistic research project "Tipping Points" in Iceland. Realized at various locations, each with an exhibition of the resulting works.
June: Tour of the Fish Factory. Creative Center of Stöðvarfjörður.
July: Opid hús. Artist Residency Nes Skagaströnd.
August: Opid hús. Artist Residency Nes Skagaströnd.
2023: Kaffeetafel und Landschaft.(E) Installation. Solo exhibition as part of Schöneberger Art 2023.
2023 WATER. Group exhibition at the Kunst- und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth, on display were changing processes with works made of soap.
2022 Gluggavedur, film installation. Schönebergerart, results from the four-week stay as Artist in Residence February '22 in Skagaströnd, Iceland. (E)
2022 Immortality. Producers gallery Georg Jenisch, Berlin 2022.
2021 High Tide. (E)
Schöneberger ART 2021
2021 Opid Hus.
Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, August 2021
2020 Viewpoint. With Nina Maria Kleivan.
Gallery Pi, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2019 - 2020 Swimming animal alarm. Action empty pedestals. (E)
Art in public space. Winning competition of the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the District Office Treptow-Köpenick of Berlin with realization.
2019 Alien Element. Schöneberg Art 2019
2019 Day Night Landscapes
Art and culture association Alte Schule Baruth
2018 Bilið. Interspace. (E)
SchönebergerArt 2018
2018 Hand luggage. University of Applied Sciences Krefeld
2018 Nes Alumni Exhibition.
Deiglan Gallery. Akureyri, Iceland.
2018 Opið hús. Artist residency in Nes,
Skagaströnd, Iceland, May 2018.
2017 Rooms slip. (E)
SchönebergerART2017
Artists' Books for Everything.
An exhibition of the Center for Artists' Publications Kunstmuseum Weserburg Bremen.
2017 Black Box.
Production for the 20th anniversary of the Kunst- und Kulturverein Alte Schule Baruth
2017 Raum_Fahrt.
Symposium in Bedburghau
2016 Houses of cards. ( E)
Gallery Zwitschermaschine / SchönebergerART
2016 Hashtag II. HImmel and earth.
Photo exhibition at the Baruth Art and Culture Association
2015 The demise of space is programmed. (E)
SchönebergerART
2015 Local bypass.
Art and culture association Alte Schule Baruth
2015 Autopoiesis.
Nomination for the art prize of HAUS am KLEISTPARK Berlin
2014 Behind the wall. (E)
Schönebergerart
2014 Burkhard Binder.
Art and culture association Alte Schule Baruth
2013 Possibly a kitchen construction site.
Schönebergerart
2013 Colony in the Haag. Baruth Art Association
2013 Draft depth. Höhler Biennale Gera
2013 Out of my mind. gallery Brotfabrik Berlin (E)
2012 The staircase. Schöneberg studio tour
2012 Flotation Toy Warning.K
Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth (E)
2012 Heim_Spiel. Women's Museum Berlin
2012 What the heart desires.
Participation book art project Dortmund
2011 Cordula Sauer & guests. Woga 11 in Wuppertal
2011 Best of Papa Jo's. Diesel power station Cottbus
2011 Colorless. Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2010 Breakfast in the open air. Art Association Old School Baruth
2009 System relevant. Gallery DadaPost Berlin
2009 Half Conversations. Studio Gallery Fachhochschule Dortmund (E)
2008 Neighbors. Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2008 Flowers for Baruth. Art Association Old School Baruth
2007 Journey into the blue. Art Association Old School Baruth
2006 Kottbus Art.
Diesel power station Cottbus art museum
2006 Someone might come to visit.
Atelier Lieblingszimmer Berlin
2006 Houses for cars.KK
Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2004 Treppenszenen.
Fassade 88, Berlin. Video work (E)
2004 Beautiful Place Nowhere.
Lennépark Baruth Loipe.
2003: Living room. Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2002 Stracciatella. Studio 63 Berlin (E)
2002 Loops. Video installation on 23 computers
Institute for New Media Berlin
2001 Artists in Wonderland. Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2000 Three meters distance. Castle Geissendorf
2000 City, country in flux. Kunstverein Alte Schule Baruth
2000 Scholarship holders and sponsorship award winners 99.
Brandenburgische Kunstsammlung Cottbus
1999 Traveling exhibition.
Mobile exhibition in a car. Cottbus (E)
1999 Landpartie. Collective exhibition in the Brandenburg Art Collection Cottbus.
1999 Kick the baby. Kunstverein Alte Schule, Baruth.
1999 Rotation II. Cottbus, Kunstpflaster II
1998 Inner values. Gallery Urbank Hospital Berlin
1998 Rotation. Cottbus. As part of the Brandenburg Art Plaster Days
1997 Educational films. Opening of the short exhibition series
For friends and relatives Atelier Marienstr.1 Cottbus (E)
1996 Puzzle pieces. Villa Flath. Bad Segeberg (E)