Editing for Film and Video Art

#video #editing This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, the participants receive quick assignments which put these ideas to immediate use.

Body and Creative Flow

#performingarts #bodywork We work out how breathing, touch and movement lessons can lead to a lasting positive change in body and mind in a self-determined way at eye level. Individual work on one's own posture, dialogue-based partner work and collective, dynamic group work are trained using martial arts such as Aikido and Systema, as well as the Talmi Methode® and biomechanics according to Meyerhold. Particular emphasis is placed on atomical and physiological principles as well as unconditional physicality.

Writing = Design

#design #writing #text Are words enough? In a world full of fast-paced and artificial imagery, we want to highlight one of our simplest yet most powerful tools: words. They are easy to use, and one word can go a long way to surprise, clarify, oppose and convince. Learn about writing as a tool. Make words work for you!

Absolute Superstructure – Disentangling a Mass of Knots

#fashion #design #textile Absolute Superstructure – Disentangling a Mass of Knots” examines nets as material and metaphor, exploring entanglement, power, and alternative kinships through collaborative textile and conceptual practice.

(Re)Discovering the City

#performance #dance #choreography The 5-day intensive workshop looks at how we can both be inspired by and change our relationship to the city. We will examine artistic strategies like Psychogeography, Situationism, algorithmic walking, GPS, sited dance and performance intervention.

Total Silence

#design 2050. Digital world. AI dominates our lives. A sudden power outage: No internet anymore, complete darkness at night. A major task is to create a paper-based communication network for information exchange by rediscovering earlier layout techniques.

Critical Seeing of Neo-Orientalism in Contemporary Art

Body Sound Collective

#music #performance #body Weaving body sound, voice, and movement into instant composition, spontaneous music and dance emerge as one shared form. In a group where each performer is already enough, the collective amplifies presence, resonance, and expression.

Deep Mapping Berlin

#arttheory #media We will consciously counteract the overwhelming amount of on and off screen information we are daily exposed to. We apply ‘deep mapping’ as method to dive into Berlin's urban space to explore it from multiple perspectives and media.

Too Much is Not Enough: Returning to Slow Art Criticism

#finearts #writing A workshop exploring art criticism as a practice of attention and resistance to excess, combining readings, gallery visits, and writing exercises to develop precise, intimate forms of critique and refine works-in-progress.

River Song - Vocal Landscapes and the Poetics of Water

Enough: Learning from Bio-Materials

#design #creativewriting What happens when we take a natural residue, like an eggshell, long enough for it to teach us? Experimenting with the making of bioplastics and creative writing we will engage the possibility of tactile, relational inquiry and creation.

Drawing as Thinking: A Marathon through Natural History

#finearts #drawing During a five-day immersion into the natural history museum, we meet scientists and study various collection objects. With drawing-based research methods, we explore shapes and structures, and transform observations into artistic insights.

Stitching Urban Landscape, Reconfiguring our Boundaries from Feminist Margins

#finearts #artisticpractice #body This workshop explores how bodies move through Berlin’s layered temporalities, playing the audio-visual archive back through collage and montage —traditionally gendered labor — to reconfigure our personal and political limits.

The Slow Line: Art Through Train Travel and Public Transit Spaces

#artisticpractice #publicspace A site-based class turning trains, stations, and movement into artistic material. Through fieldwork, theory, and public encounters, participants create works for a final exhibition at railway stations

Edible City

#artisticpractice #publicspace In the 5-day workshop, we will explore movements and initiatives that engage with food and the urban environment. We will visit Schrebergärten, collective farms, city beehives and artistic food collectives in order to learn how to reclaim urban spaces.

Large Piece of Lawn – Drawing the World of Plants

#finearts #drawing The Participants examine historical plant specimens, explore the botanical garden, study arthistorical illustrations and discover structures under the microscope. They develop the knowledge gathered into a graphic interpretation of the plant world.

¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures

#design #printing ¡BASTA! – Printed Refusals, Spoken Futures questions how much is enough and also how to position ourselves in this excess. Through a collective riso printed A3 poster bundle we will amplify diverse interpretations of enough and call out for action.

An Introduction to Visual Ethnography: To See and Be Seen, Enough.

Worlds that Whisper

#design #printing Worlds that Whisper is a five day screen printing workshop exploring extraversion, introversion and the visual language of affect through associative drawing experiments, mirrored paper cuts and paper stencil screen-printing.

Enough Bad Jokes: Collective Joy as an Act of Resistance

#arttheory #artisticpractice This workshop explores art as a social practice and tool for micro-resistance. We will look at how jokes, absurdity, and collective imagination can generate clarity and connection, even in oppressive or overwhelming contexts.

Water Beyond Resource? Making and Thinking through Water

#design #artisticpractice This course examines water in its relational, social, and ecological dimensions. Through field trips, artistic practice, readings and critical reflection, we explore water beyond a mere resource and follow its material and imaginative significance.

Bending Wood

#finearts #workshop This workshop focuses on the traditional technique of steam-bending wood. In addition to an indepth craft course, we will spend a day in Grunewald forest visiting a forester, who will tell us about the ecological reforestation efforts in her district.

Enter the Void - On Abstraction and Elliptical Strategies in Painting

#finearts #painting This practical one week seminar focuses on the individual artistic exploration of abstraction processes within painting, the development of unique pictorial ideas and a vivid dialogue among the participants.

Participatory Storytelling, Radical Imagination and Rhythmic Resistance

Editing for Film and Video Art

#film #video This workshop examines how filmmakers and video artists can use editing to create and clarify meaning. After watching and discussing clips from a wide range of films, participants receive quick assignments which put these ideas to immediate use.

Tracing (Future) Mobility through Walking and Film

#film #publicspace Using flânerie and filmmaking the workshop delves into questions surrounding traffic, mobility, city-making, co-habitation and the use of public space in Berlin, from construction projects to so-called ‘culture-wars’ surrounding transportation.

Berlin Modular Music – Aesthetic Strategies for the Rabbit Hole

#music #electronicmusic In extensive hands-on sessions with various modular hardware systems, participants (beginners to advanced) explore the challenges of modular synthesis. Aesthetic and technical aspects are also discussed in depth in lectures and during excursions.

“The Voice of Things Becomes the Voice of the Charcoal Speaking”

#finearts #drawing Discover artistic charcoal’s production, material agency, and the site-specific, performative potential of drawing on paper and beyond. The course includes a meeting at frontviews/HAUNT and Florian Wüst’s film lecture on the cultural history of coal.

Enough Images? Sexuality, Pornography and Digital Bodies

#arttheory #artisticpractice This workshop explores the overflow of sexualized imagery and asks how "Enough" can guide healthy boundaries. Through reflection and artistic practice, participants develop empowered, self-determined strategies for navigating digital sexuality.

Do I (only) Need my Body?

#performance #body In this course you explore how the body’s innate knowledge emerges when unnecessary tension, habits, and imitation fall away. Through mindful movement and embodied awareness, you uncover presence, authenticity, and a new depth of expression.

Performing Marx: Rehearsing Revolution

#performance #publicspace A rehearsal for revolution. This workshop turns Marx’s ideas into movement. Through indoor and public-space exercises, students explore how social and economic forces are written in our bodies - a physical inquiry into labour, class, and power.

Critical Horizons: The New Dimensions of Art Criticism

#finearts #criticism Through seminars with critics, gallery visits, and writing exercises, this course considers the forces hanging the field of art criticism: increasingly diverse perspectives, a speculative art market, and a turbo- harged attention economy.

Animation for the iPad

#video #animation The only limit in animation is your imagination, but production can be very labor-intensive. In this workshop, we will learn how apps make stop-motion and hand-drawn animation more accessible, so that you can let your creativity run wild.