The occasion for the presentation of the exhibition was the excavations carried out in 2005 and 2006 in Kötterhagen, in the centre of Paderborn, during which not only wells, cellars, latrines and canals were found, but also everyday objects that make it possible to get to know everyday life in past centuries.

Organiser/exhibitor:
Students of the Department of History at Paderborn University in cooperation with the City Archaeology Department and Dr. Guido M. Berndt and Dr. Sven Spiong from the Museum in der Kaiserpfalz

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How does man go from blood pressure to world domination? Or is it blood pressure that drives him to such a presumptuous idea? Man endeavours to capture himself meticulously and precisely. Using photography, painting, collage and object collage, the focus was on the attempt to determine human identity.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Maria Brysch and Silke Drüke from the Women's Project Department at Paderborn University

The exhibition showed the results of a practical photography seminar held in the 2005/06 winter semester under the direction of Prof. Dr. Barbara Becker, in which students were encouraged to explore unconventional forms and formats of portrait photography and in this way break through traditional habits of perception. The focus was on the strangeness of the supposedly familiar counterpart, which can suddenly reveal itself in the photographic representation, as well as the otherness of one's own person, which repeatedly comes to light in the self-portrait

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Institute for Media Studies

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On display were colour photographs by Matthias Koch, which gave an impression of his hike on the historic Way of St. James across the north of Spain. In addition to the photographs, a number of objects were exhibited that illustrate everyday life on the pilgrimage. These include the official pilgrim's identity card, which hikers can use to stay overnight in the hostels along the way, and the scallop shell, the symbol used by hikers to recognise each other.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Matthias Koch

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The exhibition showed the results of a campaign in which students "showed their face" and "showed their colours" by taking a photo and speaking out against the introduction of tuition fees at Paderborn University. With the exhibition, the activists of the Aktionskreis Studiengebühren (AKS) pursued one goal above all: they wanted to show those who reject the current draft law to "secure financial justice in higher education".

Organiser/exhibitor:
AKS and AStA

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Between 2002 and 2005, Paderborn art professor Jutta Ströter-Bender photographed the surviving Biedermeier wallpapers from the years 1825 to 1833 in the Princely Library and the rest of Corvey Castle near Höxter in an artistic "wallpaper research" at different times of day and in different lighting conditions.

Organiser/exhibitor:
Prof. Dr. Jutta Ströter-Bender from the Institute of Art / Music / Textiles

The two photographers and actors at the Studiobühne of Paderborn University provided an unusual insight into the variety of productions at the Studiobühne.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Oliver Scholle and Tobias Zenker, actors at the Studiobühne of Paderborn University

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The photo exhibition of Paderborn students gave an insight into how differently women perceive their environment and express it through photography. The spectrum ranged from cool architecture to explosive flower pictures. The exhibition raised the question: "Do women photograph differently? Do women deal with femininity photographically? And if so, how?"

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Women's project area of the Paderborn University

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In a small book exhibition, works by Friedrich Wilhelm Weber, Peter Hille, Ferdinande Freiin von Brackel and lesser-known writers and poets from the old Hochstift Paderborn, whose work often did not achieve more than provincial fame, were shown.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Markus Müller and Markus Scharfen, staff of the University Library

The starting point for the artist's colour etchings and chalk lithographs are real objects, people or nature. These are abstracted by her; the resulting form is supported by the composition of the colours - the central means of expression of Elke Jürgens' creative activity.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Elke Jürgens, employee of the Paderborn University

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Old collieries and abandoned industrial plants in the eastern Ruhr region are the motifs captured in photographic images by media studies students under the direction of Prof Dr Barbara Becker. Dilapidated parts of old factory buildings and disused machines were on display, as well as detailed shots of cables, levers and windows that only become recognisable as such at second glance.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Institute for Media Studies

The manuscripts, drafts, diaries, letters, pictures and documents on display in the exhibition provided information about the stages in the life and focal points of the writing of the German-Israeli writer Jenny Aloni: childhood and school days, Jewish life under National Socialism, life in Israel, re-encounters with Germany, social commitment, literature as memory, forms of writing, work and impact.

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Jenny Aloni Archive and University Library

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The more than 40 pictures and objects on display reflected not only a variety of themes but also the intensive exploration of different materials used as supports: Natural wood boards, PVC-coated chipboard, pressboard, sheets of zinc, pure copper or stainless steel, nickel-plated spheres, steel wire, square chromatography plates, cardboard boxes and canvases.

Organiser/exhibitor:
Cooperation event between the Centre for IT Services (ZIT) and the University Library;
Exhibitor: Dr. Karl-Heinz Ohrbach from the Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry Didactics

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Artistic works were exhibited that were created in a practical art seminar with Prof Hermann-Josef Keyenburg in the summer semester of 2002. They were the results of a work process in which books, which are normally used in a library for reading and as a data carrier for conveying information, were to be seen and reshaped from the point of view of creative redesign, comparable to the transformation process to which Picasso subjected the bicycle saddle and handlebars in his famous "Bull's Head".

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Students of the subject area of art at Paderborn University

To mark the 20th Paderborn Guest Lectureship for Writers, an exhibition was held in the entrance area of the university library, which documented the history of the Guest Lectureship since its foundation in 1983 with books, photos, letters, texts and newspaper articles. A special feature of the exhibition was the "Mail-Art-Action": on ART POST CARDS, over fifty writers used a rhymed or unrhymed text, a hymn, a pamphlet or a drawing to depict what they associate with the place "Paderborn".

Organiser/exhibitor:
Cooperation event between the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the University Library

On the occasion of the opening of the Notebook Café on 6 September 2002, under the heading "What does the mouse think on Thursday?" - the title of a book by Josef Guggenmos - all sorts of curiosities and miscellaneous items, some of them from private collections, were collected on the occasion of the opening of the Notebook Café on 6 September 2002. From 24 September to 25 September 2002, the exhibition was shown in Frankfurt am Main at the Sun Summit 2002 "Communicating knowledge - libraries and museums in the age of the online user".

Organiser/Exhibitor:
Edeltrud Büchler and Dr. Marlene Tiggesbäumker, employees of the University Library

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