The graduates of the Kunsthochschule Kassel (KhK) present their final projects at the documenta-Halle in Kassel from December 10–17, 2025.
A premiere unites conclusion and beginning. Examen 25 shows graduates and master students at the KhK as a chorus of many voices whose works and perspectives coalesce into a temporary ensemble.
The exhibition can be understood as script, sketch, and show: as a preparatory rehearsal, a tentative draft, and a celebratory presentation. It unwraps a temporal dramaturgy, a spatial choreography, and sees the placement of the works shown here as both a group exhibition and as a prototype – as a platform for rehearsal, a scenic setting, a model. It is architecture and theater, performance and rehearsal, show and sketch, a site of synchronicity and permanence, but also of contradictions and the provisional.
At the threshold between endings and beginnings, Examen shows transitions – looking back and looking forward, documenting and staging what may come. In this tension between the provisional and the final presentation, the positions shown here can be read as both finished works and also as proposals for the future.
Here the rehearsal becomes a working method for exhibiting. In contrast to the classical understanding, which aims for perfectionism, it appears as a temporary format, open to different outcomes. The positions shown from Visual Arts, Visual Communication, Product Design, Art History and Aesthetics meet here as equal protagonists, with all of their voices sharing the stage for a moment.
The openness of the rehearsal leaves room for chance, breaks, and variation, making the exhibition space the starting point for a temporary collective staging. A premiere that allows for simultaneity, makes differences visible, and poses the question of how the stage can be shared. A beginning, a high point, a single outcome: a script, a sketch, a show.
Everyone is cordially invited to visit Examen 25 – a script, a sketch, a show. Entrance is free of charge and open to the public during the hours posted without prior registration.
Curator:
Lizzy Ellbrück
Running time of the exhibition:
December 10–17, 2025
Opening & Awards Presentation:
Wednesday, December 10, 7:00–10:00 p.m.
Opening hours:
Thur.-Sat.: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Sun.: 12:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Mon.-Wed.: 10:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Exhibition location:
documenta-Halle
Du-Ry-Straße 1
34117 Kassel
Press contact:
Çiğdem Özdemir
presse[at]kunsthochschulekassel.de
The Kunsthochschule Kassel extends its deep gratitude to the cdw Stiftung for its many years of support for the Examen exhibition.