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Questions about the content of our offers can be answered by
Zuhal Özbey
Tel. 0521-329995019
oezbey@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
Do you already know our library? There you and your pupils can research the topic of art. Tania Müller is looking forward to your visit!
We offer guided tours of all exhibitions for school classes and groups from day-care centers. All offers always start with a tour of the exhibition, during which selected exhibits are discussed with the children and young people. Afterwards, participants can put what they have seen into practice themselves – whether linguistically and creatively in the exhibition or practically in one of our creative rooms.
We recommend the educational tour with creative activities for day-care centers and classes up to 9th grade. (1.5 or 2 hours).
We recommend the discussion guide from the 5th grade (1h).
We recommend the writing workshop for 8th to 13th grade, it lasts 1.5 or 2 hours and offers a creative and productive approach to the exhibition theme in addition to factual information.
We also offer guided tours in foreign languages. Let us know what you want.
The Kunsthalle also offers guided tours outside regular opening hours from 8:45 a.m. (including Mondays!) by arrangement with Tania Müller.
Booking of events:
Tania Müller
0521-329995018
mueller@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
Workshops with different focal points
The exhibitions enable a particularly wide range of approaches and thematic focuses for children, young people and adults that are directly linked to their own everyday lives. In addition to the individual experience of the exhibited works, we attach great importance to the active involvement of visitors in our accompanying art education tours and artistic-creative activities. This means that there is always the opportunity to contribute your own ideas, questions and contributions. The individual experience of art and participation in decoding and interpretation processes make a visit to the exhibition lively, exciting and also educational.
In addition to conceptual learning, access to art is particularly possible through aesthetic experience. The questions and discussions that follow open up opportunities for children, young people and adults to actively engage with contemporary art and classical modernism.
An attractively designed interplay of active viewing, knowledge transfer and practical work introduces children and young people to the multi-layered works in a playful way and gives them an insight into the artists’ working methods and world of thought.
In the artistic and creative activities, methods of action are tested and applied. The children and young people are given the opportunity to productively express their sensory experiences, their ideas, fantasies and feelings and ultimately to reflect on their actions in everyday life.
The offers
All workshops begin with a didactic tour of the exhibition and end with a creative artistic activity in the Kunsthalle’s painting studio. A group division is necessary if there are more than 17 participants.
For young art lovers (nursery and elementary school)
Winter time! The little field mice are happy to have a well-stocked larder. Frederick too? No, he didn’t collect nuts and fruit. He had collected sunbeams, colors, shapes, words and pictures in our exhibitions and of course he continues to do so! In the footsteps of the artists, the nursery and primary school children go on a journey of discovery through the exhibitions with the little mouse. They playfully learn how to experiment with shapes, colors and a wide variety of materials to create unique works of art. The collected impressions are then implemented in a subsequent creative design activity in our painting studio. They draw, paint, glue, shape, build, knead and experiment. 4 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 60 euros for daycare groups / 70 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 80 euros for daycare groups / 90 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
How do we manage to make friends? Or to show acceptance towards other people? Irgendwie Anders deals with these questions in the children’s book of the same name. He tries to fit in by any means necessary until he realizes that he doesn’t need to pretend in order to be accepted. On his journey, Somehow Different also learns that friendship means appreciating the uniqueness of others. After all, aren’t we all different in some way? Based on this great story, the children go on an exploration tour and see how strongly art is characterized by individual characters and how necessary this is. Afterwards, they create their own works of art in the studio. 4 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 60 euros for daycare groups / 70 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 80 euros for daycare groups / 90 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Especially for the current exhibition (from elementary school)
Light makes our world visible! Through light, colors begin to glow, spaces become recognizable and our perception of what we see changes. In art, light can be much more than just brightness: it can create moods, emphasize shapes or become a material itself.
In this workshop, we will explore how brightness, shadows and color contrasts change images and discover how we can work creatively with light ourselves. There are many opportunities to experiment, for example with self-made scratch pictures, star images or by getting to know or deepening complementary colors to make your own works shine. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 70 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
How do you see the world? How do you move within it? Which excerpts catch your eye and what do they say about you?
In this workshop, we look through our own “lens” and discover that each lens brings something different into focus. Pierre Bourdieu also explored the Kabyle people with his camera during his time in Algeria. His photographs have become an instrument of knowledge that makes visible how colonial power relations leave traces in people’s living spaces and bodies.
In the workshop, topics relating to photography as an artistic medium, the critical examination of role models and the examination of our own self-perception, which shapes our view of the world, can be dealt with.
Artistically, these questions can be implemented using different means, which can vary depending on the main topic – for example through collage, photography with tablets or a painterly examination with styrene, acrylic or watercolor paints. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 70 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Digital in the museum (from 7th grade)
Almost all students own a cell phone. Instagram, Tiktok, Whatsapp and co. are part of everyday life. But can the cell phone also be put to good use during an exhibition visit? In this workshop, we will show you and your students some ways in which this can be achieved. The exhibition tour can be followed by an artistic and creative activity in our painting studio. Not all students need their own cell phone! We are equipped with a class set of tablets, which can also be used. Recommended from year 7. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
Duration: 3 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 135 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 155 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
ChatGPT, Dali and other artificial intelligences are on everyone’s lips. The debates about their opportunities and risks are raging in many areas. In this workshop, we want to take a different approach to the topic. Together with the AI, the groups of pupils will create texts on the selected works and their art-historical contexts and create their own artistic interpretations of these texts in the painting room. We will incorporate our own experiences with the interactions between analog and digital seeing, describing, interpreting and creating into a discussion about this: How does AI work? What are the opportunities and risks of this technology? What skills do we need in a world of communication that is increasingly influenced by AI? In this way, the pupils not only learn about art, but also learn a critical and reflective approach to technology. Recommended from grade 8. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
Duration: 3 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 135 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 155 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Project days at the museum
The architecture of the pink sandstone cube of the Kunsthalle Bielefeld is the central starting point and framework for this journey of discovery! Why does the building look different from others? Who works in this building? What is collected and exhibited there – and why? After the first “tour” of the Kunsthalle from the outside, the pupils take a guided tour of the exhibition and creative spaces, the lecture hall and the library, and also discover rooms that are not open to the public and their functions. In dialog with the museum staff, the pupils find answers to questions they have prepared in advance. A visit to the current exhibition is an opportunity and impetus for creative work in the Kunsthalle’s painting studio. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
Duration: 3 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 135 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Most rallies are about tasks and time! Who is the fastest? It’s different with us! Children and young people can take their time to explore the Kunsthalle’s sculpture park and wander around, look at, touch and explore the sculptors’ works, and of course ask questions themselves and answer the rally questions. During the evaluation, the pupils learn sculptural positions of the the twentieth and 21st century. This workshop can also be booked with a subsequent creative activity in one of our painting rooms. As the rally takes place outside, please wear weatherproof clothing. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
Duration: 3 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 135 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
We approach art through dialog! From spontaneous impressions to guided observation of details, together with the participants we create access to works, names, trends and techniques. Always age-appropriate, of course!
2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1 hour.
up to 16 pupils: 50 euros for school classes and students
from 17 pupils: 70 euros for school classes and students
You can make your booking request online here.
Focus: Artistic technique
In the “Art Secrets” workshop, we start with a joint tour of the exhibition, during which we take a close look at the various artistic techniques and materials. This gives pupils a good understanding of how works of art are created. Afterwards, a specific technique will be tried out in the studio. This can be drawing, printmaking, painting with colored pencils, chalks, finger paints or acrylic paints. But collage, sculpture or sculpture can also be a theme. We ask that you specify your preferred technique when making your booking request. If you have any questions or uncertainties, we will of course be happy to help! 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 70 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 90 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 110 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Writing texts and poems in a museum? I can do that too! You and your pupils will be surprised at how exciting it is to approach the works in the exhibition by means of various writing tasks. Formats such as eleven-word poems or four-word poems make it easier to get started with automatic writing or scenic texts. The respective presentations of the texts developed in individual or group work round off the writing workshop. The students also receive tips on how to present their work to help them articulate and present themselves. 2 accompanying persons free of charge
Duration: 1.5 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 65 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 85 euros for school classes
Duration: 2 hours.
up to 16 pupils: 75 euros for school classes
from 17 pupils: 95 euros for school classes
You can make your booking request online here.
Booking of events:
Tania Müller
0521-329995018
mueller@kunsthalle-bielefeld.de
We look forward to your visit!