Opening: 26.4.2024, 6:30 pm, Gotischer Saal
The “Spandau Youth Art Prize 2024” will be presented as part of the opening.
This exhibition presents the results of the 35th Visual Arts Workshops organised by Spandau schools and attended by over 200 participants from primary and secondary schools. Die 35. The 35th Visual Arts Workshops were organised by Spandau art teachers over four days in 16 workshops in January 2024. The works include drawings, paintings, wooden objects and ceramics.
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The visual arts workshops at Spandau schools have been taking place for over three decades since 1988 and over the years have become an important and indispensable part of school life in Spandau. They can be traced back to the initiative of Spandau teachers. This project is organised by the Spandau District Office and the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Science in cooperation with the Spandau Cultural Office and the Spandau Youth Art School.
The extensive and multi-layered programme, from which all art-interested pupils in Spandau from all types of schools and grades 5 to 13 can choose courses, usually consists of around 15 to 19 workshops, which are led by art teachers who look forward to this project every year. In the thematically different workshops, the pupils are given the opportunity to deal intensively with artistic problems, free from the demands of normal school life; at the same time, they experience tolerance and social behaviour: Over four days, usually in January, alternative ideas are developed around a theme and they build, paint, draw, film, print and design in a productive working atmosphere. Themes such as “Silent Demons of the Night”, “Ceramic Ikebana”, “Treehouse Visions” and “Think BIG – Spray Painting” reflect the diversity of the programme.
At the opening ceremony of the annual exhibition of the results of the art workshops, each participant receives a catalogue that vividly presents all the workshops with pictures of works and explanatory texts. During the exhibition period, not only many visitors from near and far, but also many school classes enjoy the works, which are admired with appreciation and invite them to become creative themselves.
