Workshop
The “Ö_Werkstätten” in the dye works (Claude-Lorrain-Str. 25 in the back building) will now take place again every Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. until December 15th. Different generations can spend time together in a diverse program and get creative together. On November 10th, the offer ranges from a collage course to screen printing, sewing and ceramics workshops to a cooking course. Artist Toshio Kusaba cooks with Japanese and Bavarian influences, mostly vegetarian and vegan, often with spontaneous recipes. This time it’s Kusaba’s udon noodles that are meant to be eaten together afterwards.
Work show
Mariana Sesma and Jessica Capra.
(Photo: Birgit Haubner)
The exhibition “BeLonging” deals with the phenomena of “belonging” and “longing”. She sees their interaction as a complex and ongoing process in which the personality is formed. Using languages, geographical references, sounds and visual memories, artists Betül Aydin, Elise ‘T Hart, Teresa Linhard, So-Hyun Bae and Hayato Mizutani process their experiences of displacement and identity formation while living in an environment that is different from “home”. The exhibition is curated by Mariana Sesma and Jessica Capra.
Capra, 36, grew up near Milan but considers herself more European than Italian. She has lived in London, studied in the Netherlands and has lived in Munich for six years. Sesma, 38, has also lived in London, as well as in Madrid and Dublin. She spent her childhood in São Paulo. When homesickness hits, Sesma tries to cook Brazilian food, rice and bean dishes, and listen to Brazilian music with her two-year-old daughter. “Since the themes of belonging and longing are close to our hearts, we decided to approach the curatorial text as an exchange of letters between us,” says Sesma. There they present works of art, share thoughts about them and personal experiences. “Senses have the ability to evoke memories,” says Capra. For her, for example, it is the sound of the trams that connects her with the old trams in Milan and her time there as a student. The finissage will take place on November 10th at 5 p.m. in the Platform (Kistlerhofstr. 70).
Haakon Magnus of Norway.
(Photo: Danny Lawson, dpa)
Workation
The Norwegian Crown Prince comes to Munich for a kind of workation (a combination of work and vacation, work and pleasure). Lands on Monday afternoon Haakon Magnus of Norway at Munich Airport, will be received in the courtyard garden in front of the residence in the evening and will sign the state government’s guest book. Afterwards there will be dinner in the Kaisersaal. He is accompanied by Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram. Norway has ordered a total of 54 Leopard 2 tanks. A visit to arms manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann is planned for Tuesday.
Appreciation
professor Knut Müller-Caspary from the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at LMU was awarded a Synergy Grant from the European Research Council worth 14 million euros. Müller-Caspary works in an interdisciplinary team that brings together life sciences and physics in international collaboration. “Our interdisciplinary approach enables us to analyze the structure of much smaller proteins than was previously possible,” says Müller-Caspary. “On the one hand, the goal is to take structural biology research to a new level.” In this way, tissue samples could be examined much more precisely for neurodegenerative diseases in the future. Müller-Caspary studied physics, received his doctorate at the University of Bremen and worked as a postdoc in Antwerp, Belgium. He was a group leader at the Research Center Jülich and a junior professor in Aachen before being appointed professor at the Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy at LMU in 2021.
Wedding
Andrea Prestel-Galler and Rosmarie Lederer.
(Photo: private)
Red cabbage remains red cabbage and a wedding dress remains a wedding dress. Buying a wedding dress is probably as complicated as the tongue twister – and as confusing as a jungle of white tulle. “I google and am overwhelmed by a wealth of information,” says Andrea Prestel-Galler39, with her sister Rosmarie Lederer, 35, has written a book called: “Oh Bride! Buying a wedding dress made easy.” It is a kind of guide for buying the wedding dress. In various chapters, the bride will be accompanied from the research, to the fitting and until after the wedding. In their book, the sisters address questions about marriage. “What are my own ideas? What are those of my mother or my best friend? Who is there at the fitting? Who do I prefer to leave at home because they are more likely to offend me,” says Prestel-Galler, listing a checklist for self-reflection. She works as a coach and her sister runs a bridal shop. “We both got married in white in 2016,” says Prestel-Galler. Lederer then started a second-hand business with the clothes. In 2021, the sisters started the joint project and podcast “Marrying with Dress and Soul,” in which they continue to report on their experiences and mistakes to this day. This shows how important the right time is for the wedding outfit. For example when choosing accessories. Because the shoes, or rather the heel height, determine the length of the dress and should be better determined before buying. “I just took a pair out of my closet and everything fit,” says Andrea Prestel-Galler. “But my sister ordered 17 pairs.”