Simon Freund asked 100 people if they would change their outfit with him. Tobias Frank has imagined to settle a new planet and Tamara Reich drove in her dreams across the ocean and painted a picture of it.
Freund, Frank and Reich as well as dozens of other art students have given SPIEGEL an insight into their work and submitted photographs of their work. A selection of particularly impressive and original works can be seen here.
Vote for the artworks (ten is the highest score) as you liked them. The artist who has the best result will be interviewed by us.
Tammy Langhinrichs
"Calendar Girl"
Oversized Calendar Sheet : Tammy Langhinrichs , 22 learned tufting in the Dutch Textile Museum Tilburg - a technique that can be used to make carpets. With that she created her tapestry "Calendar Girl" in two months. Langhinrichs studied in the 6th semester at the College of Fine Arts Hamburg with a focus on sculpture.
Jessica Grundler
Porcelain figurine: Jessica Grundler has put this dog in oil on wood.
"Different Perspective" is the name of this picture. It shows a space that seems to break out of its limitations.
Grundler combines elements of nature with geometric structures.
In this image "Shape Shifting" Jessica Grundler also plays with spaces, outside worlds and reflections.
Insights, views, breakthroughs: Jessica Grundler, 22, paints in rich colors animals and plants that conquer the room. The student calls her works "Shape Shifting" and "Different Perspective". She is studying in the 8th semester at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Tobias Frank
What do you experience when you colonize a new planet? Tobias Frank asked himself this question and illustrated how a small group of people arrive in a foreign world.
Frank wondered what people would do first, and how their everyday lives are shaped on the alien planet.
How would people explore the new world? Which landscapes would you discover?
Frank has put his illustrations under the motto "Colonization".
In the 8th semester the artist studies graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.
Everything new: Under the theme "Traveling" Tobias Frank , 24, has illustrated people who are colonizing a new planet. The student shows the everyday life of this small group. His work is called "Colonization". Frank is studying Graphic Design at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg in his 8th semester.
Timo Hoheisel
"Home lighting"
Light in the dark: on a clear night with a new moon and low clouds Timo Hoheisel , Born in 1980, his hometown. With his work "Heimatleuchten" he shows the light emission of the city in the sky. In the 10th semester he studies liberal arts at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.
Lillien Grupe
Screaming man: Lillien Grupe likes to paint people very expressively.
A girl is standing in a chair: Lillien Grupe does not want to give titles to her works of art.
That's how the artist sees herself.
Screaming woman: Grupe studies liberal arts in Braunschweig in the second semester.
On the railway tracks: Your work was created this year and last year.
Hand in hand: Grupe often uses dark tones for her paintings.
Outcry: Lillien Gruppe , 21 likes to portray people in dark tones, including themselves. Their paintings, which they do not give titles for, were created this year and last year. In the second semester, she studies liberal arts at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig.
David Luis Grimm
"Excerpt from research on the NSU complex"
Subject NSU: Abdurrahim Özüdogru was murdered 17 years ago at the corner of Siemensstraße and Gyulaer Straße in Nuremberg. He was the second victim of the NSU. On the wall of the house is a simple plaque under a striking park notice attached. Around the corner hangs a street sign with old German typography. David Luis Grimm, 28, took this photo. It is his attempt to draw attention to the mistakes of the state. He studies liberal arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg.
Tamara Empire
"Dundee"
Before Tamara Reich , 21, set off on a semester abroad in Dundee, she dreamed of traveling across the ocean in a boat tied to a hot-air balloon. When she arrived in Scotland she painted her painting for 123 hours until it was finished. Reich studies liberal arts in the eighth semester at the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.
Hsin-Yi Chou
Hsin-Yi Chou had ignored her balcony for almost a year - but then he became her source of inspiration.
Barely a year after her husband moved out, the weeds are growing out of joint.
Hsin-Yi Chou wanted to painstakingly document this change in life.
Out of joint: Hsin-Yi Chou had to paint at home because her university was closed due to renovations. There she discovered her balcony as a source of inspiration and painted it with all sorts of greens, stones and flowerpots. Chou, born in Taiwan in 1967, has been studying visual arts at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart for one year.
Xenia Fumbarev
Looks like shadows, but they are not - but only images of the shadows of houses and trees.
Xenia Fumbarev has screened the shadows onto concrete slabs.
Small cracks and bumps can be seen on the concrete slabs.
This is how a transfer of space happens, says the artist.
In the shadow of the branches: Xenia Fumbarev , born in 1986, photographed shadows on facades and screen-printed them on concrete slabs. In this way, a material known from architecture and sculpture becomes a carrier of photographic images. Fumbarev lives and works in Munich. In the winter of 2019 she will complete her studies in Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts.
Lisa Schreiber, Annagenia Jakob, Fiona Körner, René Graf
The Arabella House in Munich is scheduled to be demolished in 2026. The striking facade of the building is known to many people in Munich.
The textile designer Lisa Schreiber was inspired by the facade to fabric patterns.
The art project was expanded by the three photography students Fiona Körner, Annagenia Jakob and René Graf. In an exhibition they brought together the fabrics and photos.
The photography students took pictures of the rooms ...
... ... and residents of the Arabella house. These are desperate because the house is to be demolished. For them it will be difficult to find cheap rental apartments in Munich.
The residents say that the special attitude to life will no longer exist elsewhere.
23 floors, 550 apartments: The Arabella-Haus in Munich served the textile designer Lisa Scheiber as an inspiration for fabric patterns. Using a special process, she was able to translate the pixels of a photograph of the façade into a weave pattern. The photography project was expanded by photography students René Graf , Annagenia Jakob and Fiona Körner , who photographed the inhabitants and rooms of the Arabella-Haus. The artists study at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Lisa-Maria Schmidt
Lisa-Maria Schmidt designed three sculptures under the title "WHYNOT Bauhaus". Their goal was to translate the ideas of the Bauhaus into the present day.
Schmidt dealt intensively with Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and experimented with the basic shapes circle, line and rectangle.
In addition, Schmidt wanted to put the material in the foreground: glass, metal and stone.
The Bauhaus celebrates its 100th anniversary next year. Lisa-Maria Schmidt , 23, has dealt with the anniversary of the art school. These three sculptures were created. Schmidt wanted to translate the ideas of the Bauhaus into today and experimented with the basic forms circle, line and rectangle and the materials glass, metal and stone. In her 4th semester she studies product design and art science at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Paul Diestel
"Pas Seul I"
Paul Diestel
"Pas Seul II"
Maple seeds are spread by the wind and spin in flight around their own axis. Paul Diestel , 22, suggested this with his object "Pas Seul" - "Single Dance". The model for his works is nature. "In the shell of a sunflower seed, in the pupal stage of the privet lepidoptera, in the ergot, I find a part of a development process," says Diestel. Diestel studies art in the eighth semester at the Kunsthochschule Kassel.
Jonas Leichsenring
Jonas Leichsenring wants to draw attention to people who work in the background with his art project "Shadow Men".
With chalk spray he put this sentence on the lawn in front of the art school: "That's pretty much what I do, but everything changes overnight," it says.
"Shadow men are always in our environment, in sports it is the groundskeeper who takes care of the lawn and water it," says Leichsenring.
He is studying Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the 6th semester.
Green art: On a lawn in front of the art school Jonas Leichsenring , born in 1997, sprayed these words with chalk spray. His work is called "shadow man". Leichsenring says, "Shadow men are always around us, in sports it is the groundskeeper who takes care of the lawn and water him, dividing the pitch into different zones with chalk spray, and without this effort, a football match would not take place officially." The student wants to give the shadow men more attention with his work. He is studying Visual Communication at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the 6th semester.
Tamy Alessandra Plank
The pictures are a selection of 140 works that Tamy Alessandra Plank painted during her Erasmus year in Copenhagen.
Plank was inspired by events in everyday life, literature and surrealism.
The watercolors on canvas sewn plank on paper.
Surreal everyday life: Tamy Alessandra Plank , 28, painted these pictures during her Erasmus year in Copenhagen. She was inspired by her everyday life, dreams, and surrealism. She painted the watercolors on canvas and then sewed them on paper. In the eighth semester Plank studies free art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
Simon friend
Simon Freund (right) has asked 100 people to change clothes.
The others wear his uniform, as his friend calls it, and the artist wears her clothes.
Friend made two posters from his work.
The viewer is constantly caught wondering what a friend would look like in his own clothes.
The artist always seems to take the pose of the other.
In the second semester, Simon Freund studies free art in the sculpture class of Hermann Pitz at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.
He says he has two very productive semesters behind him.
In addition to his self-portrait series, Freund also dealt with the topics of work, consumption and love, social media and shame.
Dress gyre: time wearing Simon friend, 28, a pair of tights, a dress, too short leggings. Sometimes he wears glasses, a hat with a flower, a scarf, baggy pants. All in all, there are 100 different outfits he borrowed from some people - just for a photo. The others in turn wear the clothes of Simon Freund: a black cap, a black sweater, a white T-shirt, black pants, white stockings and black slippers. "Selfportrait" called friend his project. Freund is studying liberal arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the second semester.