“As one dreams, so one should paint” (Werner Heldt)
Dream, longing, home Berlin and freedom are the themes of the exhibition by artists Werner Heldt and Burkhard Held at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank.
In the workshop, we would like to concentrate on our own view and ask ourselves how our surroundings can change in the future.
With pen and paper, we will visit the exhibition 100 Years of Held(t)en: Werner Heldt and Burkhard Held and explore the composition of the pictorial worlds, the staging and their stylistic forms of expression. How are pictures constructed? How are people and their surroundings depicted?
We make a spontaneous, spatial sketch on site and let the works of art inspire us. The way there and the street in front of the Kunstforum can also be included.
In the workshop, we take this first draft as a starting point and continue to draw our imaginary space from it in our heads. Future architecture, our own spaces, Berlin and excerpts from the neighborhood are our graphic introduction to the topic.
The near and the far are connected. A window, a view from the inside to the outside, can transport us to another world or reveal layers of history. Starting from this site-specific sketch, we develop our own spatial image. Pencils, markers, wax crayons and other graphic tools are our basis.
This creates a connection between dream and reality, from which an abstract, invented and utopian space can be assembled.
The Werkstatt für Kreative is participating in the KinderKulturMonat in October 2023!
On 14 October, we will take part in the KinderKulturMonat and offer you two great workshops at Kaiserdamm 105. You can take part in the workshop MENSCH UND EMOTION from 10-12 am and from 13-15 pm. All children aged 4-16 are invited to register for a workshop via the KinderKulturMonat website from 3 September. www.kinderkulturmonat.de
For the workshop, our art educators will be waiting for you at the Werkstatt für Kreative at Kaiserdamm 105. After a short introduction, we will go to the current exhibition at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank right next door. You’ll see lots of great works of art, explore them with your eyes and ask questions about them in a short discussion session. Afterwards, you will move back to the Werkstatt für Kreative and give free rein to your feelings with brush and ink on paper. Spontaneously and with verve, you put your feelings on paper and capture the moment.
First you experiment with black and gradually add the primary colours yellow, blue and red.
A picture emerges and in the end it is an expression of yourself. Be curious about what develops on the paper before your eyes and just stay spontaneous.
A maximum of 20 children can register for each workshop, parents can take a seat in the waiting area.
The Werkstatt für Kreative is on the road for you again this year and will be at the Kids kreativ summer holiday camp in Oranienburg from 21-25 August. Every day from 10-12 and 13-15, Lilla welcomes you to the workshop ” Mensch und Emotion auf Papier” (“People and Emotion on Paper”) and looks forward to your active participation. This time, drawing with Japanese ink brushes on watercolour paper is the order of the day and you can and should give free rein to your feelings. Spontaneously and with verve you will put your feelings on paper and capture the moment.
First you experiment with black and then gradually add the primary colours yellow, blue and red.
A picture emerges and in the end it is an expression of yourself. Be curious about what develops before your eyes on the paper and just stay spontaneous. The course is suitable for children and young people aged 5-18 and there are still places available.
Registration at: https://www.kids-kreativ.de/das-sommerferiencamp/anmeldung/
Your team from the Werkstatt für Kreative
The somewhat different class photo
For many decades, staged photography has not only been a tool in art, but an everyday component of children’s and young people’s lives. Especially selfies – alone or as a group – accompany us in everyday life.
In the workshop, we would like to throw our own spotlight on the exchange between painting, graphic art, sculpture, theatre and photography and build a bridge to selfie culture.
First we will visit the exhibition SchlagLicht at the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank and explore the composition of pictorial worlds and the staging of people. How are pictures constructed? How are people portrayed? How do artists portray themselves? How do they deal with their identity? How is alienation done and what effect does it have?
In the creative part, the aim is to create an “artistic” class photo by alienating the self and staging it. The participants work haptically on their “alienation” and make masks on a certain theme out of paper plates, coloured paper, fabric scraps and other materials. For the younger groups, this will be circus or carnival of the animals. Older children will work on the Night Café by Hubertus Giebe. What would your class look like if you were all members of a circus, took part in the Carnival of the Animals or were visitors to the Night Café in Hubertus Giebe’s painting?
The group then recreates one of these scenes with the masks they have made and this is captured photographically in front of an improvised stage. Each group receives its own data carrier on which the “somewhat different class photo” can be taken away.
Joy, happiness, anger and sadness are just some of the emotions we feel every day. We also feel something when we look at art.
We explore these emotions and put them on paper!
With ink and Asian ink brushes, this is achieved in spontaneous movement Momentary captured. Be it joy, contentment, pride, sadness or anger. We give free rein to our feelings.
To do this, we experiment with different shades of black, gradually taking the primary colors yellow, blue and red. The picture is ultimately an expression of ourselves.
The Workshops of the Werkstatt für Kreative are an educational activity for school classes and groups of children or teens between the ages of 5-18, with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 28 participants. Duration of approximately 2 hours. Per institution, 2 Workshops are available for free per school term. Further workshops can be booked for a fee. Would you like to stay up to date ? You want to be informed on time about the start of the workshops or a new exhibition?
Then please take a look at our website and subscribe to our newsletter for the Werkstatt für Kreative or the general newsletter for information regarding the exhibitions, events etc.
Werkstatt für Kreative takes part in Kids kreativ in Oranienburg!
During the summer holidays we spend a whole week being creative with Kids kreativ in Oranienburg.
In the workshop Der schöne Schein. Entwirf dein eigenes Kunst-Spielgeld. You can design your own art play money
make your own stamp from all kinds of materials such as foam rubber and cardboard and print your fantasy money.
Think of a name for your money, print numbers and pictures, let your imagination run wild.
The Werkstatt für Kreative will be part of the KinderKulturMonat in October!
Come to us and experience the exciting world of Berlin’s arts in the workshop REMIX: Die große Freiheit in der Kunst (REMIX: The Great Freedom in Art). On Saturday 8.10. from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. you will first visit the exhibition Aufbrüche. Abbrüche. Umbrüche. Kunst in Ost-Berlin 1985 –1995 in the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank and see how the years of reunification were experienced by the artists. A time that brought confusion and helplessness, but also suddenly offered great freedom and opened up completely new possibilities – all of this is reflected in her artworks. Then we take all artistic liberties ourselves: we cut, we glue, we draw, we paint and paint over whatever we can get our hands on. From catalogues, posters, newspapers, cardboard, foam rubber and different colors we combine layer by layer old with new and foreign with our own. This is how free and very personal artistic remixes are created. Registration required!
We dare to do something and suddenly everything is possible. A moment of uncertainty and freedom at the same time, in which nobody knows what will happen next. We want to trace such moments in the workshop REMIX Die große Freiheit in der Kunst (REMIX The Great Freedom in Art). The occasion is the exhibition Aufbrüche. Abbrüche. Umbrüche. Kunst in Ost-Berlin 1985–1995 in the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank. It shows art from the years of reunification by East German artists and how they experienced the time of upheaval. A time that brought confusion and helplessness, but also suddenly offered great freedom and opened up completely new possibilities. After visiting the exhibition, we take all artistic liberties in the workshop. We cut, we glue, we draw, we paint and paint over whatever we can get our hands on. Using catalogues, posters, newspapers, magazines, cardboard, foam rubber and various colours, we combine old with new and foreign with our own, layer by layer. This is how completely free and personal mixed media works of art are created.
The Workshops of the Werkstatt für Kreative are an educational activity for school classes and groups of children or teens between the ages of 5-18, with a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 28 participants. Duration of approximately 2 hours. Per institution, 2 Workshops are available for free per school term. Further workshops can be booked for a fee. Would you like to stay up to date ? You want to be informed on time about the start of the workshops or a new exhibition?
Then please take a look at our website and subscribe to our newsletter for the Werkstatt für Kreative or the general newsletter for information regarding the exhibitions, events etc.
The Werkstatt für Kreative is looking forward to designing the pictures for the Märchenland calendar 2023 for the 33rd Berlin Märchenland Days in November 2022 with the class of the Bäke elementary school.
The educators of the Werkstatt für Kreative and Märchenland e.V. discuss this year’s theme “farewell and return – fairy tales and stories of life and death” with the children,look at different fairy tales and see what death is called and represented in other cultures. The children tell their own experiences and thus approach the topic.
In the creative part, the children make a stamp from simple materials such as cardboard and foam rubber and design and print pictures that illustrate the theme of the Märchenland days.
From all the resulting images, 12 will be selected for the calendar and published together with the texts from the writing competition. We follow the creative development process and are excited about the result.
The 33rd Berlin Märchenland Days will take place from November 3rd to 20th, 2022 with a wide variety of events.
The Werkstatt für Kreative will also offer a workshop during the Märchenland Days.
We offer workshops always on Mondays and Wednesdays from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. (except public holidays) until the end of June 2022 in our Werkstatt für Kreative at Kaiserdamm 105, in 14057 Berlin.
Together with Light Art Space (LAS), we enable children from Ukraine to have interesting and creative hours with a variety of activities, such as kneading with modeling clay, painting, drawing and printing with different techniques and materials. The workshops will be accompanied by the team from the Werkstatt für Kreative and by Lena, in Ukrainian / English / German.
The offer is free of charge, the presence of the parents is obligatory. You are welcome to visit the current exhibition CASH on the Wall in the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank while your children are having a creative time in the Werkstatt für Kreative.
To make planning easier, please register for the workshop with Lena:
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We look forward to seeing you!
Пропонуємо майстер-класи о понеділок та середу з 15:00. до 17:00 (окрім святкових днів) до кінця червня 2022 року у Werkstatt für Kreative за адресою Kaiserdamm 105, 14057, Берлін.
Спільно з Light Art Space (LAS) ми даємо можливість дітям із України провести цікаво час на різноманітних заняттях, таких як: ліпка із пластиліну, розпис, малювання та друк за допомогою певних технік і матеріалів. Майстер-класи супроводжувуються командою Werkstatt für Kreative та Оленою українською / англійською / німецькою мовами.
Пропозиція безкоштовна, присутність батьків обов’язкова.
Також запрошуємо Вас відвідати поточну виставку CASH on the Wall у Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank, поки ваші дітки творчо проводять час у нашому Werkstatt für Kreative.
Для запису, будь ласка, зареєструйтесь на семінар:
Instagram: Create_together_berlin
Telegram: https://t.me/create_together_berlin
З нетерпінням чекаємо на вас!