One Step Beyond

Outstanding! These are fourteen graduates of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts who graduated in 2024 and have received prizes and funding from various institutions. The popular group show known as the Debutante Exhibition is presented by the Academy of Fine Arts. We are delighted to be able to host the exhibition one step beyond this year.

A debutante exhibition allows participants to try out their own strengths, boosts their self-confidence and gives them the opportunity to explore the challenges of a free artistic existence.

The ERES Foundation responded to the Academy's request to host this year's event with joy and conviction in the potential of this year's programme. Above all because many positions deal with scientific and technical aspects in an emotionally appealing way. Data, studies and archives from geophysics, deep-sea research, astronomy or ornithology resonate as a sounding board and flow into form. The debutants make striking use of grid structures, laboratory rods and metal profiles from trade fair and mechanical engineering or celebrate the retro beauty of technical objects such as aeroplanes and motorbikes. The diverse interpretations of the concept of nature and the complexity of a time in which the mechanisation of living things is progressing rapidly through digitalisation are negotiated undogmatically. Visitors can move through the rooms like in a spaceship, attracted by sounds from the earth's interior, the scents of natural plant flavours, bird calls from extinct species or whirring sci-fi machines. There are also works that deal with recent RAF history or the Nazi era and draw parallels to the present day. In this way, this emerging generation shows us viewers the way back to an alert experience of nature and society, helping to develop a sensitivity for the future.

Babi Brüller
Examenspreis 2023 des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus und der Stiftung Kunstakademie | Klasse Prof. Sebastian Tröger

Veronica Burnuthian & Aelita Le Quément
Preis der Franz Altmann-Stiftung | Klasse Toulu Hassani (ehem. Prof. Markus Oehlen)

Anne Gauger
Examenspreis 2023 des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Unterricht und Kultus und der Stiftung Kunstakademie | Klasse Prof. Sandra Schäfer

Jonas Höschl
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Prof. Olaf Nicolai

Georgia Kaw
DAAD-Preis | Prof. Florian Pumhösl (keine Präsentation in der Ausstellung)

Ju Young Kim
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Prof. Olaf Nicolai

Younsik Kim
Preis der Erwin und Gisela von Steiner-Stiftung | Klasse Raphaela Vogel (ehem. Prof. Alexandra Bircken)

Michael Mönnich
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Prof. Nicole Wermers

Eduardo Palomares
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Prof. Alexandra Pirici

Rosanna Marie Pondorf
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Prof. Peter Kogler

Anna Schübel
Preis des Akademievereins | Klasse Prof. Armin Linke

Merlin Stadler
Preis der Franz Altmann-Stiftung | Klasse Prof. Alexandra Pirici

Tatjana Vall
Preis der Stiftung Kunstakademie | Klasse Prof. Pamela Rosenkranz

Maxine Weiss
Debütantenförderung des Bayerischen Staatsministeriums für Wissenschaft und Kunst | Klasse Raphaela Vogel (ehem. Prof. Alexandra Bircken)

The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, which will be financed 100 per cent by the ERES Foundation.