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During our opening hours, our team of mediators communicate the concepts and content of the exhibitions and events, answer questions and give short tours of the premises.
Curatorial Tours
On request, the curators and/or artists offer guided tours in the exhibitions. Please email us here: info at baerenzwinger.berlin
Education Program
Please note that our educational program is currently only in German.
The educational programs invite children and young people to playfully discover the Bärenzwinger, its history, architecture and exhibitions through various senses.
Artists make the exhibition site accessible in creative and diverse ways.
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For individual request please contact us at info@baerenzwinger.berlin
Contact: Cleo Wächter, Vanessa Göppner, Annika Reketat and Lina Kröger
info at baerenzwinger.berlin
Mit Moos Geht’s Los!
Workshop series with the artist Gudrun Ingratubun in the garden of the Bärenzwinger Berlin
Art & nature, for young & old from near & far
Explore the world of plants in the Bärenzwinger and enter into an artistic dialog with nature.
This year, the Bärenzwinger is exploring the meaning of lines under the annual motto “Edges and Knots”: Where do they separate things and where do they connect? The Bärenzwinger garden is a place where lines play an important role. What is nature here, what is a monument, what is art? Is there a boundary between them? What lines connect me to the Bärenzwinger? These are some of the questions we would like to explore in this series of workshops using creative and horticultural methods.
What happens in the workshops?
We go on a journey of discovery to different plants that grow on the concrete, where the bear used to go to his scratching post. More species grow on the thin layer of soil and in the cracks than you would think possible. And there is always moss. The supposedly most “primitive” plant, moss, has an astonishing variety of forms and interacts with concrete and bricks. We want to observe and document this.
Can we still do something good for the garden? Care for it, make its growing conditions more favorable for climate change and perhaps give it some careful design impulses?
We will write our ideas on grass paper, think about the respective exhibition and practice various artistic techniques such as ecoprinting or painting with homemade paint made from elderberries. Depending on the season, we will also find plants in the garden that we can use to prepare a drink or a dish.
Dates:
12.10
From 1-5 pm
Admission is free
Registration is welcome, but not required:
Coordination:
Cleo Wächter, Vanessa Göppner, Annika Reketat, Lina Kröger
Part of the DRAUSSENSTADT initiative, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt sowie der Stiftung für Kulturelle Weiterbildung und Kulturberatung.
Workshop 1: “From the moss perspective”
Saturday 20.7.24
1-5 pm
The workshop will take place in German, but can be translated if needed.
In the first workshop, we look at the Bärenzwinger “from a moss perspective”: we take a close look at the moss and other plants on the building, on the concrete floor and in the moat. We will record our new view of the Bärenzwinger by drawing the plants on grass paper and mapping them using frottage.
In this way, we will engage in an artistic dialog about how the Bärenzwinger affects us, what connects us to it and what memories it awakens. But we also look to the future together: we develop ideas on how we can support the plants in the face of climate change and provide our own impetus in this special garden.
Workshop 2: “Sun-water photography”
Saturday 24.8.24
1-5 pm
The workshop will take place in German, but can be translated if needed.
In the second workshop of the project series “Mit Moos geht’s los” (“It starts with moss”), we reflect on water, its various manifestations and dynamics and explore the artistic works on the outdoor areas of the Bärenzwinger in the context of the current exhibition “By Way of Way” (“Auf dem Weg des Wassers”)
Like us humans, plants are also largely made of water and depend on water for their survival. In the second workshop, we will learn about the “cyanotype” printing technique. We will experiment on how the leaf surfaces of different plants absorb water and what shapes the water forms on them. We will also continue the plant cartography of the garden and see how the moss has evolved since the last workshop. Finally, we will capture the shapes of plants and the imagined movement of water with cyanotype and the structural surfaces with frottage. Ideas for the garden will also be developed further.
Workshop 3: “Elderberrycolour”
Saturday 21.9.24
1-5 pm
The workshop will take place in German, but can be translated if needed.
In the third workshop of the project series “Mit Moos geht’s los” (“It starts with moss”), we reflect on water, its various manifestations and dynamics and explore the artistic works on the outdoor areas of the Bärenzwinger in the context of the current exhibition “By Way of Way” (“Auf dem Weg des Wassers”)
We will dip the leaves of the elderberry and other leaves in rust water, place them between pieces of paper, wrap them tightly around a stick and simmer the resulting rolls for an hour. What traces will the pigments and structures of the leaves leave behind?
Finally, we will investigate how the moss has developed in the meantime.
The educational program is made possible by the educational networks “Educationnetzwerk der kommunalen Galerien” and “Urbane Künste ERbeLEBEN” of the Department of Art, Culture and History, District Office Berlin Mitte and funded by the program “Securing and Strengthening Local Educational Networks on a Sustainable Basis” of the Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family.
