On display, for example, is a broken mirror as a mobile, with static portrait photos dangling from thin ropes alongside the mirror shards – a work that thematises the dynamics and statics of identity. Another exhibit puts the viewer in the role of a personnel manager, who is allowed to take a seat at a typical work table and has to select a candidate. The application folders show, among others, an elegantly styled lady, a woman in an emo-style, a woman with a headscarf and a casually dressed girl. On closer inspection and reading the documents, however, it is noticeable: It’s always the same person. Initial resentment is revealed at second glance. A box that resembles a dark room harbours further exhibits: Inside are several transparent spheres like soap bubbles. Inside, the viewer sees, for example, tablets reminiscent of addiction, a crashed car or bloody knives – personal traumas that haunt people, but which can also be released from the bubbles, nightmare and hope close together.

The students have underpinned their works with intensive research on the respective topic, addressed in the artist statements, which are also part of the exhibition in the Tunnelhaus. It is important to them to deal respectfully with sensitive topics, which often have references to their own experiences. The creative process therefore also contains therapeutic traits. In order to involve the viewer and encourage dialogue, many of the works include interactive elements. For example, you can put together your own identity on a pinboard or face typical fears in a gloomy mini tent – and of course you can talk to many of the artists at the vernissage.