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Tue+Thur 10am-3pm, Wed+ Fri 5pm-8pm,
Sat 2-7pm, Sun + public holidays 11am-7pm


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Access for people with physical disabilities on request: Please send us an e-mail in advance to mail@walkmuehle.net.



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In the Conceptual Film Design course, students at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences in the Media: Conception & Production programme, under the direction of Prof. Claudia Aymar and LfbA Elena Rosche, create artistic works that deal with the visual and content-related transformation of classical works of art. The selection of Art Remakes presented at the Walkmühle comes from the summer semester of 2025 and the winter semester of 2025/2026.

The Art Remake is an experimental hands-on task that combines analysis, interpretation and creative implementation in a challenging way. Under the question “What does this image tell us?”, students engage intensively with an existing work of art – be it a painting, a sculpture or a historical photograph. In addition to formal aspects such as composition, lighting, colour scheme or materiality, the visual language of the original is examined in terms of its iconographic, social and historical contexts.

Based on their in-depth analysis, the students then develop their own visual concept – the Art Remake. There are two main approaches here: one aims to create a reconstruction that is as faithful to the original as possible, recreating the gestures, lighting and composition using contemporary means. The other strategy is a free, often conceptual interpretation, in which the narrative and symbolic levels of the original work are transferred to contemporary contexts. This results in remakes that address current issues such as social justice, digital culture, identity or body politics – embedded in a visual language that both honours and challenges the historical original.

In the summer semester of 2025, the assignment was expanded for the first time: in addition to the photographic productions, the students developed short, moving adaptations of their art emakes – so-called Art Remake Clips. These small animations take up central elements of the photographed scenes – movements, changes in light or symbolic details – and transform them cinematically. The Art Remake Clips allow for a new form of interpretation in which static compositions are expanded through movement and time.

Didactically, the project combines art historical research, design precision and creative transformation. Students learn to decipher complex image systems, develop visual concepts and implement them with technical precision – whether through elaborate lighting, set design, photographic staging or digital post-production. At the same time, the task promotes a critical understanding of representation and opens up space for subversive, humorous or poetic reinterpretations of familiar visual icons.
The works shown in the exhibition are examples of the diversity of aesthetic approaches that are possible within the project. The programme understands the art of remakes as a collective visual reflection on cultural reference systems, on seeing and being seen – and on how artistic positions can generate new meanings when they enter into dialogue with the past.