From March 2022 Ephra will be a guest in the Werkstatt für Kreative of the Stiftung KUNSTFORUM der Berliner Volksbank gGmbH for 4 months. Together with the team from the Werkstatt für Kreative minds, two groups of elementary school students explore Berlin studios and artistically implement what they have learned. Horizons are opened and encounters between children and artists are made possible.
The Stiftung KUNSTFORUM der Berliner Volksbank gGmbH is involved in Ephra’s project and, with its support, enables 2 x 12 children to have 7 great and eventful project days each, half a school year long, both in the Werkstatt für Kreative and the workshop program Der schöne Schein. Entwirf deinen Kunst-Spielgeldschein and the current exhibition CASH on the Wall in the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank as well as in the studios of well-known artists, some of whom are involved in the exhibition.
4 out of 7 days are studio days when you visit the artists in their studios. Here you can look over your shoulder as the art is created, interview you, take photos and also get creative yourself. On the last day, the final day, you present your results and report on your experiences.
Procedure:
In Studio RR, Rebecca Raue’s studio, the students first get to know each other and the other participants. From rounds of introductions to introductory games to artistic methods for perceiving and presenting your own strengths and weaknesses, these kick-off workshops contain everything you need to get to know the individual world of the children and create a space for exchange. We invite experts to give the students professional input on topics such as photography or interviewing. With each group that takes part in the project for half a school year, we visit about three to four artists who have their studios all over Berlin. The artists are selected according to the themes, interests and living environments of the children. This time, the focus is on the exhibition CASH on the Wall in the Stiftung Kunstforum Berliner Volksbank. The visits are open-ended in order to enable strong student participation. An artistic-researching approach is central. It is about broadening the view and opening up different realities of life and worlds of thought to the students in order to exchange ideas about individual visions and a life worth striving for. The children discover Berlin and its art, get to know new means of expression, practice asking questions and presenting and their self-confidence is strengthened. Part of the workshops are also small artistic exercises with the materials of the artists: inside. In addition, the excursions are prepared together with the children and documented with sketches, texts and photos.