Beate Mohr

Professor Beate Mohr serves as Professor of Artistic Fundamentals at the University of Fine Arts Saarland (HBK Saar), where she has taught since 2009. She co-leads the Studio for Artistic Fundamentals with Ralf Werner, which all undergraduate students complete during their first semester. Previously, she held positions as Visiting Professor of Artistic Publishing (2004-2006) and Artistic Assistant for Artistic Publishing (2001-2004) at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg.

Her research centers on the intersection of fine art and visual communication design, with particular focus on conceptual approaches to everyday phenomena, text-image-meaning relationships, and material studies. Through her studio practice, she emphasizes interdisciplinary exploration where students experience, analyze, and vary seeing, perception, and implementation processes. Her methodology explores the dynamic relationship between intention and conception in artistic practice, where thinking changes doing and doing changes thinking in return.

Professor Mohr's artistic output manifests in drawings, objects, and publications that investigate visual language, material transformation, and conceptual frameworks. Her recent works include 'Lamp Ladder' (2022), 'AL(L IN) ONE' (2021), and 'Part of all' (2020), alongside numerous limited editions and artist books since 2004. She has presented her work at institutions including Museum Weserburg Bremen, Museum St. Wendel, and Zürich University of the Arts.

Her teaching philosophy is grounded in the conviction that there is no qualitative difference in seeing, perceiving, or thinking whether working as a designer or artist—they both draw from the same artistic fundamentals but with radically different intentions. Design deliberately shapes our everyday life, while art reflects the creator's existential conditions without functional constraints. The Studio for Artistic Fundamentals provides space for experiments, discoveries, and surprises where students develop their artistic stance through reflection on material, form, body, color, and media.

Professor Mohr has delivered numerous lectures and workshops internationally, including 'Traumstadt' urban planning workshops in Hamburg since 2010, 'materialien' at Zurich University of the Arts (2007), and presentations on photographic artist books at Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (2010). Her publications include both artistic works and theoretical explorations of student publishing models.