Gesucht! | Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle
February 20 - April 11, 2026 // Show images ...
The exhibiting students were set a project to make their own images for missing animals, real or imaginary, using a variety of print techniques, but with the stipulation that each work be comprised of two colours, and without using black.
The title Gesucht! is German for wanted or sought after, and is commonly used in neighbourhood posters for missing pets. The exhibiting students were set a project to make their own images for missing animals, real or imaginary, using a variety of print techniques, but with the stipulation that each work be comprised of two colours, and without using black.
Missing pet posters exist to provide essential information about the lost animal’s appearance, and the contact details of the owner. They are typically very simple and mostly lack design refinement, yet they have a specific visual language that is immediately recognisable. Printed at home, and placed around the city, these images are surrendered to sun, rain, snow, spray paint, or new layers of posters placed on top. Colours fade or new ones emerge, the paper wrinkles and tears, some posters are blown away by the wind and disappear.
The idea of the project was to encourage both the students and their audience to find inspiration in the everyday. Navigating the urban environment takes up a huge part of our lives, so it pays to really look at some of the ordinary things that punctuate our wanderings; perhaps even to find poetry in the mundane.
Gesucht! presents students’ reflections on the topic; exploring how a message can be delivered, what type of creature might be missing, and how to be playful within the parameters of the format.
These are artworks about what isn’t there.
Photographer: Malle Madsen
Gesucht! is an exhibition of works by students from the drawing and printmaking class at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, Germany. A second exhibition by class professor Paul McDevitt is downstairs in Martin Asbæk Gallery. Burg Giebichenstein was formed in 1915, with strong connections to the nearby Bauhaus. Today it is renowned for the quality of a diverse range of its workshops, of which printmaking plays an important role.
The exhibited artists are Paula-Rahel Cyriaks, Stella Farina, Lilo Fuhrmann, David Gholipour Ghalandari, Nina Hopf, Franka Malin Kienle, Anna Kuhlmann, Theo Lipinski, Myra Martin, Matilde Meléndrez, Ljolitschka/Ria, Gesine Otto, Elle Peterka, Fiona Pliha, Lukas Rost, Mathilda Marga Schellenberg, Levke Schramm, Janina Schreiber, Diana Sedova, Kyunyoung Shim and Olivia Toben
