Killed Darlings – Exhibition project “Playlist” for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

2025

Visual Communication

Authors

Elvin Ayanoglum

Laura Benner

Leonie Bucher

Nele David

Semiha Değirmenci

Julia Groß

Serafine Hauschke

Alonso John-Urmersbach

Melissa Kugele

Ilya Netesov

Zoe Schmidt

Josepha Stolz

Mariia Sviatohorova

Marlene Theiss

Farida Emanuelle Womeno-Dassi

Type

Semester Project

Field of Study

Visual Communication

Supervisor

Prof. Anja Weber presented “Killed Darlings” - an exhibition project “Playlist” for Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

Killed Darlings – Exhibition Project Playlist for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Collaborative project with the ABK Stuttgart

Photography students of Prof. Anja Weber, Merz Academy, teamed up with the Myrzik photography class at the ABK Stuttgart (Prof. Ulrike Myrzik) and spent two semesters developing an exhibition for the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

The students took the theme of “playlist,” a curated collection of songs that can be exchanged among each other, as the starting point for their work. The resulting projects are as diverse as the students’ realities. However, the poster wall does not feature the motifs for the exhibition. Instead, it shows motifs that were discarded from the projects, in accordance with the inherent necessity of every exhibition project to “kill your darlings.”