Coroplast Global | News | 19 Nov 2025 Creativity without limits: a look back at the CoroArt Art Award 2025

Together with the Faculty of Design and Art at the University of Wuppertal, we presented the CoroArt Art Award 2025 for the eighth time. This initiative brings together creativity and technical expertise, showing how exciting it can be to reinterpret industrial materials in completely new ways. 

For their projects, the students had access to a wide range of our products – from adhesive tapes, cables, and wiring harnesses to nonwoven fabrics – which they transformed into diverse and imaginative works of art. 

The motto “Untold Possibilities” deliberately turned the focus toward what lies beyond the familiar, toward ideas yet to be told and forms yet to be found. It invited the students to challenge boundaries and to approach the materials with openness and a spirit of experimentation. 

Through this process, a creative dialogue emerged, one that demonstrates how both artistic creativity and industrial innovation thrive on the courage to think differently, and how inspiring the exchange between the two worlds can be. 

For the first time, the jury presented awards in two equally recognized categories to better honor the diversity of artistic approaches: 

1. Outstanding Individual Works / Single Pieces 

2. Especially Experimental, Unconventional, and Fresh Approaches 

Winners of the Category: Outstanding Individual Works / Single Pieces 

1st Prize: Lea Biedermann 
Her piece, a “Symphony in Black”, is crafted from crocheted Coroplast tape adhesive material. The textile object hangs freely in the space, appearing light and floating, yet its intricate structure evokes the weight and density of a chainmail garment. Weighing around 4–5 kilograms, the artwork impresses with its balance between massiveness and lightness – a poetic interpretation of the theme “Untold Possibilities.” 

2nd Prize: Kim Rittershaus – “Untold Possibilities” 
Her work captivates through its interplay of simplicity and complexity in the use of materials: an egg rests in a nest woven from cables – a symbol of future, transformation, and new beginnings. The piece speaks of weaving and braiding, motifs that also resonate with industrial production processes. Its restrained palette of grays and blacks lends the work a quiet, elegant presence. 

Winners of Category: Experimental Approach 

1st Prize: Dennis Stolz – “Alles schon fertig” (All Already Done) 
His works are shaped by a joyful, experimental engagement with materials. Approaching them with curiosity, he created a group of objects that shift between sculpture and relief. Vivid colors, transparency, and density of material occupy the space – the pieces feel alive, almost breathing. Particularly striking: some elements are motorized, introducing actual movement into the artwork. 

2nd Prize: Aaron Göke – “Put”
The title means “to set, place, or lay” and that is precisely what the work does: it arranges a variety of materials into a spatial composition. In addition to Coroplast materials, ceramics and an integrated cable reel were used. With this, Aaron Göke explores the act of arranging and assigning meaning – processes at the very core of artistic creation. 

Through the CoroArt Art Award, the Coroplast Group once again celebrates openness, courage, and creative collaboration. The initiative demonstrates just how inspiring and mutually enriching the exchange between art and industry can be. 

Many thanks to all the students for their impressive submissions! The dedicated participation and the creative exchange with artists and guests enriched the event once again. We are already looking forward with excitement to the eighth edition of the CoroArt Art Prize.