Art education
Contemporary art offers the opportunity to learn more about the world and to learn how to make one's own decisions and combine knowledge from different fields. Since 2007, the Kunsthaus Dresden has developed and expanded its own programme area in which adults, young adults, teenagers and children can gain direct experience in exhibition production in the fields of art, design and architecture as well as curatorial work in this field. Below you can find out more about the current projects and programmes as well as past projects that have shaped our work.
Autumn holiday programme as part of the LOIS WEINBERGER »Relatives« exhibition
As part of the LOIS WEINBERGER »Relatives« exhibition, we cordially invite you to the autumn holiday programme:
For the holiday courses, please register centrally via the visitor service
T +49 351 488 7272
service@museen-dresden.de
Three, two, pickled!
Thu 5 October / Fr 6 October 10:00 – 15:00 each day
Learn what art has to do with apples. Make your own apple sauce from different types of apples in a preserving jar and find out how you can preserve food in a simple way and try how it tastes together with a freshly baked waffle!
Duration: 5 hours
Children aged 8 and over
Note: The holiday offer takes place on the fairground of the allotment garden site »Flora I« e. V. / Bergmannstraße 39 / 01309 Dresden-Striesen.
Living work of art
Su 8 October / Mo 9 October 11:00 – 14:00 each day
After a guided tour through the current exhibition »Relatives« by Lois Weinberger, you can create your very own work of art together with the artist Victoria Gentsch. Using found and natural materials, you can create a sculpture that then develops a life of its own.
Duration: 3 hours
Children aged 8 and over
Meeting point: Kunsthaus Dresden / Rähnitzgasse 8 / 01097 Dresden
Discover secret gardens and forests in your city
Wed 11 and Thu 12 October 10:00 – 15:00 each day
Walk through your city with the artist Andreas Kempe. Discover the nature in your immediate neighbourhood with a magnifying glass and binoculars, a sketchbook and a camera. Then get creative in the garden studio and take your own urban nature map home with you.
Duration: 2 days, 5 hours each
Children aged 9 and over
Meeting point: Fairground of the allotment garden site »Flora I« e. V. / Bergmannstraße 39 / 01309 Dresden-Striesen
Weaving Nettle Tales
Sat, 14 October 11:00 – 14:00, 17:30 – 19:00
Stinging nettles are all-rounders: in a workshop with Dutch food designer Philipp Kolmann from the ERBA group, you can get to know stinging nettles as a human partner and even taste them. You will also be surprised by the co-creation with microbes in fermentation processes!
As part of the event weekend »Of gardens and territories« (13 – 15 October)
In cooperation with the DESIGN CAMPUS summer school of the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Duration: 4.5 hours
Young people aged 16 and over
Note: The holiday offer starts from 11:00 to 14:00 in the allotment garden site »Flora I« e. V. / Bergmannstraße 39 / 01309 Dresden-Striesen on the fairground. The second part takes place from 17:30 to 19:00 in the Kunsthaus Dresden / Rähnitzgasse 8.
For young adults, teenagers and children
Our current exhibitions on artistic positions on contemporary themes are exciting for target groups of different ages and can also be visited in the mornings outside opening hours. Interested groups, schools and educational organisations in the field of further education or adult education are welcome to make an appointment according to their respective scheduling requirements and thematic focus.
For your enquiry, please contact Robert Thiele (Special Projects and Education Kunsthaus Dresden) at robert.thiele@museen-dresden.de or kunsthaus@museen-dresden.de
Get in touch with us
Your encounter with contemporary art and its themes is our concern. We can decide together how and in what form this can best take place. The Kunsthaus is run by a small, motivated team of staff and has a good network of contemporary artists in Dresden and beyond.
Projects since 2009:
YOUNG R.U.M.P.IES at school
2021 to 2023
»Young Rural Upwardly Mobile Professionals« – YOUNG R.U.M.P.IES was a multimedia, artistic educational project by Kunsthaus Dresden for schools in rural and urban areas to strengthen tolerance and acceptance of diversity
Contrary to the stereotypes that claim that life in the countryside has no coolness factor, is boring and has no future, lacks urban diversity and is disconnected from the influences of the world, YOUNG R.U.M.P.IES claimed the opposite: it exists, the cool cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan flair in the middle of the countryside: especially at secondary schools in Saxony!
The diversity of your school as a resource:
The YOUNG R.U.M.P.IES artistic education project actively involved pupils from secondary schools in Saxony in exploring positive individual and social diversity and transcultural identity and strengthened their media skills in photography, music and graphic design.
A member of the Kunsthaus Dresden team accompanied the children and young people and the mentor as a translator and contact person for transcultural experiences and processes. Participation in the project days was free of charge.
All project information as pdf in the download area see below here at Art = Education
SHIFTING IDENTITIES
2016 bis 2018
Project days on intercultural identity for secondary schools with DaZ classes
There is no longer just one identity, one self, we all have several »selves«. Identity is not fixed, but arises through exchange in different life situations and through playing with different influences from (pop) culture and our environment. Depending on the time of day and the development of our lives, we live several identities at the same time - gender, professional, ideological-religious, social, political, ethnic-cultural and national. Flight, experiences of migration, but also arriving in a new home are part of the identity of societies.
The aim of the free, artistic project days entitled Shifting Identities was to support pupils in becoming aware of their own different identities and to approach other, different concepts of identity with an open mind.
Using methods from MUSIC, DESIGN and PHOTOGRAPHY, the strengthening of intercultural competences was the central learning content in the joint project days of pupils from the regular classes and pupils from the DaZ classes. Translators accompanied the joint project work where necessary and supported the course leaders in their guidance.
The Shifting Identities project days were carried out with pupils from Saxon secondary schools with GFL classes (Dresden and the surrounding area) aged between 12 and 18 and were free of charge; further information on registration and materials to download can be found here.
»Shifting Identities’«wurde gefördert durch das Landesprogramm »Weltoffenes Sachsen für Demokratie und Toleranz« (WOS) des Sächsischen Sozialministeriums.
Shifting Identities was a cultural education project as part of the Kunsthaus Dresden project Am Fluss / At the River. In collaboration with the Societaetstheater Dresden, the project initiated by the Kunsthaus Dresden used artistic interventions and events in public spaces along the Elbe to initiate thought processes and create moments of encounter for an open understanding of culture in flux. The art project Am Fluss/At the River was funded by the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung together with the Ostsächsische Sparkasse Dresden.
MOBILE LANDSCAPE STUDIO
2014 to 2016
The Mobile Landscape Studio was a mobile artistic education programme developed by Kunsthaus Dresden for schools and school groups in the region. The project, which focused on art, landscape and resources, was developed as part of the Kirunatopia project in collaboration with Bildungscent e. V. as part of the KlimaKunstSchule! education programme.
Five artists – Susanne Keichel, Ina Kwon, Christoph Rodde, Grit Ruhland and Birgit Schuh – offered project days for schools and school groups. They worked with an artistic mobile workstation designed by Berlin artist Lucio Auri – the Mobile Landscape Studio.
Together with the participating artists, who had each prepared their own programmes, the pupils undertook research – with mobile studio equipment in their luggage - in order to observe social, urban and landscape changes in their surroundings and describe them in a wide variety of artistic forms.
The combination of excursion and workshop familiarised the pupils with an artistic method that allowed them to deepen, expand and test their experience and knowledge of local and universal contexts.
For example, the pupils created photographic portraits of the industrial transformation of our society at typical locations with Susanne Keichel, while they explored and designed artificial landscapes in the open-cast mining area with Ina Kwon. Together with Birgit Schuh and Christoph Rodde, they designed two- and three-dimensional simulation games about the transformation of their city and community and, together with Grit Ruhland, published specially designed swivel sheet templates with personal and typical motifs of their living environments in a critical context with landscape, nature and climate.
The Berlin artist Lucio Auri developed a mobile artistic work module that travelled with the five artists to the project locations. This studio equipment, put together for excursions and made from upcycled materials in particular, also became part of the Kirunatopia exhibition at Kunsthaus Dresden from February 2015 in the inner courtyard of the Kunsthaus.
The Mobile Landscape Studio was a free programme and comprised one six-hour project day per group as well as its preparation and follow-up in collaboration with the artists and the Kunsthaus Dresden and the participation of the projects in the exhibition and conference of the same name at the Kunsthaus Dresden.
The Mobile Landscape Studio saw itself as an interdisciplinary programme at the interface between art and history, politics, geography, languages and the natural sciences and was supplemented by a further programme aimed primarily at children and young people. Schools and school groups that took part and school groups that subsequently wanted to develop and realise a project idea were supported in the implementation by the KlimaKunstSchule! project - and received advice and additional support from us.
Project management: Robert Thiele, Special Projects and Education Kunsthaus Dresden
VOT KEN YOU MACH MOBIL
2013 to 2014
Vot ken you mach mobil was an artistic education project for schools in rural areas that was developed as part of the exhibition "Vot ken you mach? On Jewish Identities in Europe Today" at the Kunsthaus Dresden for secondary schools and grammar schools – in cooperation with the Jewish Community of Dresden, Hatikva e. V. and the Junior Professorship for Art and its Didactics (specialising in new media at the Institute for Art and Music Studies at the TU Dresden).
The central aim of the mobile artistic education project, which consisted of a mobile exhibition of contemporary art and a one-day artistic workshop programme for schools in the region, was to provide pupils with positive approaches to the diversity of cultural identities in our society. Using the example of Jewish identity and works by young Jewish artists, it was shown how identity changes in a modern society, how many different influences affect our cultural self-image and what role history and memory, the environment in which one grows up, religion and belonging to a language area, but also current influences from the media and pop culture play in this.
The project days were led by a team, with mentors including: Liron Dinovitz (choreographer and dancer) and Martina Lebert (stage and costume designer), Anna Schapiro (artist, represented in the exhibition Vot ken you mach?), Elke R. Steiner (artist, represented in the exhibition Vot ken you mach?), Maya Schweizer (artist, represented in the exhibition Vot ken you mach?), Juliane Schmidt (artist), Elke Schindler (artist), and Lars Hiller (sociologist and musician).
Two very successful project weeks were held at schools in Lusatia in autumn 2013, and a comic workshop with Elke R. Steiner took place at the Kunsthaus Dresden in December 2013.
Project management: Daniela Hoferer, Exhibitions, Events and Education, Kunsthaus Dresden
WHITE CUBE /BLACK BOX
2009 to 2014
For five years, the Kunsthaus Dresden visited Dresden's secondary schools and grammar schools with a mobile exhibition centre as part of the inter-school project White Cube/Black Box. This was a challenge, as our aim was not only to show contemporary art at a high level in schools, but also to produce it – in intensive collaboration with young people. In the project, the Kunsthaus, together with more than 50 mentors and experts, embarked on a joint journey with a large group of motivated, open-minded and adventurous young people from schools all over Dresden, who joined the project on an ongoing basis. Together with the architects, artists and designers we invited as mentors, they developed something that is particularly close to our hearts in seven separate programme sections and their own spaces: Our own art at a high level.
For more information on White Cube / Black Box, themes, project participants, mentors and exhibitions since 2010, see: http://white-cube-black-box.de/
White Cube / Black Box was a project initiated by pupils at the Kunsthaus Dresden. The first aim of this project was to bring architecture, design and contemporary art to the school in a holistic process: a temporary art space was created, based on containers, the exhibition building was designed by the young people themselves and travelled from school to school.
In spring 2010, the first joint exhibition on the concept of 'luxury' was successfully presented on the grounds of the Marie Curie Grammar School. In November/December 2010, White Cube / Black Box showed the second exhibition; the jointly chosen theme was the future, experimentally looking ahead to the year 2050 under the title FUTURE 2050.
By the summer of 2014, seven exhibitions had been jointly developed in the project, which used contemporary art to address a wide variety of topics from the everyday lives of young people and adults.
In summer 2014, the Kunsthaus Dresden hosted the exhibition »FETT«, a major retrospective of the works created in the project to date, together with new projects on the theme of »Display«.
The project modelled all the functions of an institution for contemporary art - in order to fill them with its own forms and content. Participants were pupils in grades 7 – 12 from secondary schools and grammar schools, who were able to work in freely selectable groups for around 6 months, each with one or two mentors from the fields of art, design or architecture.
The project was initiated by the Kunsthaus Dresden and funded by the Saxon State Ministry of Culture and Sport and the European Social Fund as part of the ideas competition 'Heraus-Forderung! Holistic learning in the project!
Strategies of Non-Knowlegde / BUKO12 (Bundeskongresses der Kunstpädagogik)
2011 to 2012
In summer 2011, an exhibition on contemporary art and its educational potential in schools was organised in collaboration with the renowned Siemens Foundation at the Kunsthaus Dresden. The collaboration was embedded in the broad discourse in the run-up to the Federal Congress of Art Education, which was concluded in 2012 with a conference at the Hygiene Museum in Dresden that brought all projects together (www.buko12.de/)
Walden # 3 oder Das Kind als Medium und Die Schule des Lebens
2007 to 2009
With the project »Walden # 3 or The Child as Medium – Exhibition and Conferences on the Past and Present of Aesthetic Education and Reform«, the Kunsthaus Dresden initiated a pilot project in 2007 that went beyond its previous project work with adolescents and was intended to highlight the potential of collaboration between young people and contemporary visual artists.
Pupils and art educators from 8 Dresden schools and day-care centres were involved in the one-year project preparation, which took place both during and outside lessons, and in the successful presentation.
A special exhibition within the project looked back on one hundred years of art teaching and reform education in the GDR and FRG. Three conferences invited teachers and artists as well as families and the interested public to an interdisciplinary exchange on the present and history of art teaching and mutual inspiration.
The project, which received consistently positive feedback from pupils and teaching staff as well as school administrators, was requested by the City of Munich, with the support of the PWC Foundation, as a special reference project for the Munich City Hall Gallery. In May 2009, the second major exhibition in the Walden project series was presented with great success under the title Walden #3 or the School of Life. Five schools from the region, the Cultural Department of the City of Munich, the Kultur- und Schulservice München / SPIELkultur e. V., the Kultur- und Spielraum München e.V. and the City of Munich were involved. Kultur- und Spielraum München e. V., the Academy of Fine Arts and art teachers from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München were also involved in the two conferences held in Munich.
The development and first part of the project entitled »Walden #3 – or The Child as Medium« in Dresden in 2007 was funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, the Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony and the Robert Bosch Stiftung; the second part in Munich was funded by the City of Munich and the PwC Foundation.
A publication on Walden #3 was released in November 2018 in collaboration with Spector-Verlag, Leipzig.
https://spectorbooks.com/book/walden-3-oder-das-kind-als-medium