Drop-in Workshop für Kinder und Erwachsene mit Merle Richter

In the organizer's words:

Get to know the animal architects!

For the Hidden Realities exhibition, the artists of the Animal Architecture Collective looked around the animal world and discovered that ants, bees, birds and small mammals also weave, make pottery, build walls and sew.

In fact, they did all this first, human animals just imitated them. Let's take a look at their architectural forms, what can we learn from them?

Get to know the animal architects and become a master builder yourself: Imagine you were a non-human animal, what would you build? There are various materials available that you can use to build your own animal architecture.

You are also welcome to bring your own materials from nature (sticks, moss, dried plants, etc.). Please always show consideration for nature when collecting.

Merle Richter is an artist and art teacher. Through close observation and intensive reflection, she investigates moments of entanglement between living beings that arise in her immediate surroundings. Her practice is characterized by conceptual, research-based and performative approaches as well as working with and through various materials, which she understands as a collaborative process. Her pedagogical work and experimental teaching practice aims to stimulate dialog and discourse and to explore the question of how "material" and installations with "material" can contribute to initiating processes of aesthetic self-education.

Entry is possible at any time until 16:45.

Free admission. No registration required.

Languages: German and English

Location: Spreepark Art Space (dance hall), Eierhäuschen im Spreepark, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin.

Access is barrier-free.

Get to know the animal architects!

For the exhibition Hidden Realities the artists of Animal Architecture Collective have looked around the animal world and realized that ants, bees, birds and small mammals also weave, make pottery, do masonry and sew. In fact they did it first, human animals have just copied them. Let's take a look at their architectural forms, what can we learn from them?

Get to know the animal architects and become a builder yourself: Imagine you are an other than human animal, what would you build? Various materials are available for you to build your own animal architecture.

Feel free to bring materials you have collected yourself from nature (sticks, moss, dried plants, etc.). Always be mindful of nature when collecting.

Merle Richter is an artist and art educator. She investigates moments of interspecies entanglements that arise in her immediate surroundings through precise observation and intensified reflection. Her practice is shaped by conceptual, research-based and performative approaches as well as the work with and through different materials, understood as a collaborate process. Her educational work and experimental teaching practice aim to provoke dialogue and discourse and investigate the question of how "material" and installations with "material" can help to initiate processes of aesthetic self-education.

You can join at any time until 16:45.

Admission is free. Without registration.

Languages: German and English

Location: Dance Hall at the Eierhäuschen, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin.

Access is barrier-free.