Creative workshops at M2K
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The creative workshops
Space for projects and room for ideas
The creative workshops at Wolfsburg's M2K are located in the Alvar Aalto Kulturhaus, right next to the fireplace. Here we offer space for curiosity and self-efficacy and a lot of ideas that we are happy to share with many children and young people!
In our projects, meaningful work in artistic processes is our top priority. All those addressed - usually children and young people from daycare centers and schools - experience fundamental cultural values. In short-term projects and long-term collaborations, the participants immerse themselves in artistic idea-finding and production processes with enthusiasm, concentration and seriousness.
This also includes the well-known art education project WERK-STADT-SCHLOSS, which began in 1989 as a sculpture project and has become a cultural perennial favorite in over 30 years.
When it comes to art, we don't want to limit ourselves to the classic disciplines. We like to combine proven, analog methods with modern, digital techniques. We are happy to work in cooperation with educational institutions.Just get in touch with us and bring your group to the Alvar-Aalto Kulturhaus!
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Offers for kindergartens and school classes
What can groups experience with us?
In the creative workshops, you find solutions through action. You experience that there is no "right" or "wrong" per se. An experience that teaches you to give space to every idea, every thought and to classify and evaluate it objectively with flexibility in the given context.
You can find out how this can happen in the program. Don't be afraid to express your wishes! We love challenges, enjoy developing ideas and regard the proposed offers as a work in progress!
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Description of offer 1: The view from the window - weather painting
Creative workshops at M2K for children in kindergartens and elementary school
The view from the window - weather painting
The weather is our daily companion. Sometimes we are happy, sometimes we don't like it. But we can't change it. So we make friends with it and look out of the window. We discover the diversity of the weather and realize: weather is colourful!
Duration: Two hours
Offer 2: The color bird - print experiments
Offer 3: Cave painting - let's scratch pictures
Offer 4: Creating animals - through color experiments
Offer 5: The leftover eaters - bring them to life
Offer 6 : Curtain up - Set pictures in motionAppointments for all offers can be arranged by e-mail: kreativwerkstaetten@stadt.wolfsburg.de
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Description of offer 1: The view from the window - weather painting
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Cooperations
Eichendorffschule Wolfsburg Grammar School/High School
The art lessons in the elective compulsory art course of the 7th grades of the Eichendorff School take place in the creative workshops. Every second Tuesday, the participants work on their ideas and topics for 3 hours. These are developed together with the teachers. The students become artistically active. The time frame allows for in-depth work. The premises offer space for projects that would be difficult to implement in school.
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WERK-STADT-SCHLOSS
2025 - Painting! Between contemplation and a flood of images
Exhibition from 06.05. to 21.05.2025 in the Bürgerhalle Rathaus A
In the history of painting, its supposed death has often been proclaimed. It is not only since the invention of photography that artists have regularly been plunged into crises in which they have to explore their self-image and thus also the meaning of art in general. This is the case today with artificial intelligence. It can take over our image production with the help of algorithms and undoubtedly generate a flood of images. Delving deeper into the production of a single image seems more and more unnecessary. Efficient technologies are taking the place of lengthy image creation processes.
Artists are looking at these developments with curiosity. Their role is, as always, to create the necessary reflections, to explore current processes and to make them useful. They are able to incorporate AI into their repertoire as one more tool among many, based on their own acquired ability to act.
Images - a unique way of thinking
The questions "Why add more images to the world? Why pick up a paintbrush and create a painting?" are questions that the two artists involved in this year's project have to discuss again and again in their exhibitions.
Susanne Maurer and Marc Taschowsky are painter and painter. They practise their painting every day in their own studios in Berlin. They work with acrylic or oil paint, with brushes on canvas. The creation processes of their paintings are subject to very different work phases. Stages of the picture are sometimes left lying around, then reworked later. Layers have to dry, ideas are tested, impulses are followed or discarded. At the beginning, neither of them knows what will turn out to be a painting in the end.
The production of authentic painting therefore follows its very own conditions. It is more like visually formulated trains of thought. These processes usually require no verbalization. None of these paintings are created with "AI prompts".
The expansion of your own image archive
Painting takes a long time and means waste. Artists know how much does not reach the public, or only after years. These are processes that are part of developing a deeply professional practice.
In WERK-STADT-SCHLOSS 2025, we are therefore opening a studio in which the participants will experience condensed training. In both project weeks, the participants will be introduced to the thematic requirements of one of the two artistic positions (landscape and portrait) and will work on perseverance, error-friendliness, willingness to play, lack of intention, composure and openness towards a painterly process.
WERK-STADT-SCHLOSS is supported by:
