Art and campus - guided tour of the Cottbus main campus

Artistic design began at today's Cottbus site of the BTU in the 1970s, when the Cottbus Education Centre for around 6,000 students was founded here. Numerous works of art from this period can still be seen today, albeit not always in their original location. Even after reunification and the founding of the university in the early 1990s, further works of art were created on the campus. Important, often internationally active artists have created murals, sculptures and sound installations for the university. In this way, predominantly figurative, more or less clearly political and ideological works of art from the GDR enter into a dialogue with contemporary art at BTU and locate the university in its historical and geographical context in a very specific way.

The students, who also wrote the texts for the Cottbus chapter of the exhibition "70 Years of Art in Architecture" at the IKMZ, will guide visitors to selected works from the extensive art collection in and on the buildings, but also in the urban space of the main campus.