Saturday 26.9.2026 11.00 a.m. - 3.00 p.m.
The urban art duo Various & Gould invites you to the art workshop “Auf Kante.” The workshop explores the themes of housing, rent, displacement, and self-organization. The content draws on both the squatter movements in Spandau during the 1980s and current issues surrounding gentrification, rising rents, and the right to housing. Together, participants will explore how the boundaries between private and public, security and insecurity, and withdrawal and political expression are shifting—both then and now. The workshop will address these themes through the medium of textile art. In the process, techniques and forms of expression that are often considered separately will come together: activism and handicrafts, graffiti and embroidery, protest and textile design. This gives rise to individual works that combine personal experiences, social issues, and creative forms of expression. Textile artist Anita Hodneland will provide technical guidance to participants with her expertise in handicraft techniques.
Selected works from the workshop will be presented starting in November in the exhibition “Occupied! The Struggle for Housing and the Forest Protest in Spandau” at the Zeughaus der Zitadelle.
/ Free to participate
/ No prior experience required
/ Meet at the gate
/ Materials provided; feel free to bring your own textiles (e.g., bed sheets, dish towels, T-shirts)
/ Recommended age: 14 to 120 years
/ Registration requested: info@variousandgould.com
