Eine Universität für alle Künste begins with a simple conviction: culture is not decoration around society. It is one of the ways a city thinks, remembers, risks, heals and imagines itself.
Oldenburg already carries many artistic energies: theatres, schools, museums, independent spaces, music, design, performance, public life. The question is what could happen if these forces were not treated as separate islands, but as one living ecosystem.
“Kultur ist kein Luxus, sondern ein lebenswichtiges Organ der Gesellschaft.”
A Shared Artistic Campus
The vision proposes a multidisciplinary arts university where dance, music, theatre, film, design, architecture and visual arts coexist. Not as departments locked into parallel corridors, but as disciplines that touch, contradict and enrich each other.
A dancer should be able to think with an architect. A composer should meet a filmmaker. A stage designer should work with a choreographer before the first rehearsal. Artistic education becomes stronger when the borders between forms are porous.
Beyond The Campus
Such a university would not end at its own walls. It would extend into theatres, museums, schools, public spaces and neighborhoods. It would allow artistic practice to become visible as part of everyday urban life, not only as an event after sunset.
The city itself becomes a partner: its squares, stages, classrooms and unused spaces become places where artistic questions can be tested in public.
A Cultural Ecosystem
This is not a proposal for prestige architecture alone. It is a proposal for connection: between generations, disciplines, institutions and communities. A cultural ecosystem gives artists a place to develop and gives citizens a way to encounter art as a shared language.
For a choreographer, this thinking is close to the body. A city also has movement, rhythm, tension, silence and breath. The question is how to choreograph conditions where culture can keep moving.