Hêlîn Alas is a new guest lecturer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel

Hêlîn Alas is a new guest lecturer during summer semester 2025 as part of the program “An Empty Space.”

“An Empty Space – Artistic Creation and Its Structural and Spatial Context” is a guest lecturer program at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in cooperation with BPA// Berlin program for artists. In the next phase of the program the school was able to recruit Hêlîn Alas (*1987), a successful visual artist and art educator.

With her multidisciplinary practice, Alas dissects and charts economies and access mechanisms, often using the example of the art system with its unspoken privileges around class, origin, and gender. In 2017 she participated in the mentor program of the Berlin program for artists, and she spent the following year in New York City with a post-graduate scholarship from the DAAD. Since then she has been living and working in Munich, where she held an exhibition in 2022 at the Museum Brandhorst. In the same year there was anothger solo exhibition at the BPA// Raum in Berlin. Her work has been included in a variety of group exhibitions as well, including at the Habibi Kiosk of the Munich Kammerspiele, the Amerikahaus (Munich), Sentiment (Zürich), Mauer (Cologne), Kevin Space (Vienna), Between Bridges (Berlin), and the Hidden Bar at Art Basel.

Guest lecturer program “An Empty Space”
“An Empty Space – Artistic Creation and Its Structural and Spatial Context” is a guest lecturer program at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in cooperation with BPA// Berlin program for artists.

Every two years a guest lecturer is invited who already possesses extensive experience as an alumnus of the BPA// Berlin program for artists. The focus of the teaching is on the topic of “Artistic Work and Its Structural and Spatial Context.” It provides a flexible framework in which the invited guest lecturers and the students can reflect on the conditions, spaces, and structures that influence artistic creation.

BPA// Berlin Program for Artists
BPA// Berlin program for artists was founded in 2016 by the artists Angela Bulloch, Simon Denny, and Willem de Rooij. The program is centered around mutual studio visits between participants and mentors. This is supplemented by a range of public events that are organized with artist-run spaces as well as renowned institutions. By now the BPA// network numbers 80 former participating artists as well as more than 150 artists who are mentors in the program.

„An Empty Space“ – Von Auserwählten und alten Weisen
Introductory lecture: 24.04.25, 16-18 h, Hörsaal Nordbau, KhK