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Kinderkulturprojekt 2017/18 von QUARTIER gGmbh
QUARTIER’s citywide children’s culture project is inspired by the current exhibition ‘Proof of Life – Lebenszeichen’. It is also signs of life with which the children and young people react to the artworks: “Ah!” and “Oh!” and “Eww!”, “Is the blood real?”, “Why is there the clown from McDonalds?”, “Is that a photo or painted?”, “What is under the cloth?”, “And is the man in the bathtub dead?”. At the Weserburg, the children lie belly-down on the floor, between bare-breasted party pictures and sleeping bag art, unflinchingly tracing their chosen work of art. They ‘conquer’ the exhibition rooms and look, discover many details, have intense conversations about and with the pictures, and can say exactly which is their ‘most beautiful and which their most terrible’ work of art. In January the big project presentation of all artworks will take place. Accompanying guided tours for groups, children, and parents, participatory activities, film screenings, and performances complement the exhibition at the Weserburg. Patronage: Mayor Dr. Carsten Sieling, mayor and president of the Bremen Senate.
“The impressions from the exhibition ‘Proof of Life – Signs of Life’ are processed in the temporary workshops in the participating schools, playhouses, daycare centers, children’s and youth facilities. Many questions arise and inspire the children and young people to come up with ideas. Here, 30 professional artists work together with the children and young people to raise the ‘treasure trove of pictorial experience’ and support the creation of their own ideas about it.” Andrea Siamis, Project Manager QUARTIER gGmbH
Oriented to the artworks in the exhibition, butterfly pictures, portrait series, painted and as fingerprints, characters with giant paintbrushes, animated films, photo series with “Very important persons”, metaphorical life books, masquerades and collar heads, shrouded soapstone figures, a “would-have-been-bicycle-chain machine”, which is also presented performatively, are created.
An important part of the children’s culture projects, which have been carried out by QUARTIER in Bremen and Bremerhaven for 30 years with different themes and cooperation partners, is to convey art and culture to children, to introduce them to art, to the places where art is ‘at home’, to make it possible for them to experience art and artists. The successful cooperation between QUARTIER gGmbH and the Weserburg is now in its fourth year.
More than 600 children and young people between the ages of 3 and 18 are involved, as well as a group of senior citizens and a group of mentally handicapped adults and young refugees.
Project management, QUARTIER gGmbH: Andrea Siamis
Project assistance: Ingeborg von Hantelmann, Pia Weber
Photos: Frank Pusch
The project is supported by the Senator for Culture/start-Jugend-Kunst-Stiftung Bremen, the Senator for Children and Education, WIN / Program Living in Neighborhoods, the district advisory councils Bremen and the Sparkasse Bremen ‘Gemeinsam gut’.
GEWOBA / AG Wohnen und Bauen, makes it possible for children and young people from the neighborhoods to visit the Weserburg and receive artistic painting utensils.
Graphic: Reiner Will
Participation offers for children and families
Images of the Gods
Tuesday, February 6 and 13, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
There are many different names for ‘God’ or ‘gods’ in religions around the world. Among Christians we speak of God, in Islam we speak of Allah, in ancient Egypt the sun god was called Aton, in Buddhism Buddha, the Hindu pray to Brahman, and Zeus lived with many others in the Greek heaven of gods. We paint or write our idea and let a common work of art develop. With artist Caroline Schwarz
Written pictures – painted words
Friday, February 9 and Saturday, February 10, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
We will make brushes from different natural materials, plants, fabrics… and paint characters and words with ink on large format paper. With artist Su Bo
Eeny, meeny, miny… – small objects made from bicycle parts
Thursdays, February 22 and 27, 12:00 – 14:00
From a hodgepodge of bicycle parts, paper clips, wire and a lot of imagination, figurative objects are created. Stabilized in tin cans or cans they are an eye catcher- where ever you look! With artist Gertrud Schleising
Exquisite pictures – writing workshop
Friday, March 02, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 7, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
In the exhibition “Proof of Life – Signs of Life” we discover exciting artworks that tell stories. Little figures struggle through chaos, Snow White rides to the Tower of Babel. What else is happening? For children, teenagers and adults. Please bring a writing pad. With Anke Fischer, author, writing coach, lecturer for creative writing, anke-fischer.de.
The colorful world of butterflies – a butterfly workshop
Sunday, February 25 and March 4, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
In the exhibition we will be inspired by butterflies big and small and create our own colorful butterflies out of colored cardboard, crayons, wax crayons and with scissors. With artist Sylvia Dierks
Cloak, hide, discover!
Friday, March 9, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. and Friday, March 16, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Get transformed into a work of art and photographed as a sculpture. Feel free to bring your own camera or cell phone. With artist Claudia A. Cruz
Every day in the exhibition:
Tower of Babbel – a cube building site.
Here you can build your own tower with different words and phrases or label, paint or stamp the wooden building blocks yourself.How high will the tower reach?
What will we discover in the exhibition? A coloring activity.
Here you can paint, glue, guess, invent picture stories.
Artists / Themes / Institutions
OSTERHOLZ-TENEVER
Ilka Hövermann
Around head&collar
transformations and masquerade with fabric, paper, collages
Playhouse Treff Pfälzer Weg: Irina Schäfer, Julia Halfer
Conny Wischhusen
Jack in the box
objects, texts in cigar boxes
GS Pfälzer Weg: Klaus Junge
Ulrike Schulte
God’s pictures
Biblical themes, painting, collages, various biblical works
Senior workshop Egestorff: Veronika Wehr
Udo Steinmann
Transformations 2017
Prints, etchings
Conpart e.V. (KTST): Martina Kämpfer, Franziska Bartels
Rosa Jaisli
Stones tell stories (What is hidden under the cloth?) / Working with bacon and alabaster stone
KiTa Osterholz Conpart e.V.: Nina Kunze, Valentina Gorbachera
BLOCKDIEK
Peter Friemer
Talking Gate
Sound collage behind the gate, faces behind the wall / peepholes / installation
GTS Düsseldorfer Straße: Kerstin Burkhardt, Uwe Jorns
HEMELINGEN
Angela Kolter
Being in the picture
Playing with veilings, stories, from sculpture to image
Children’s School Bremen: Claudia Fahrenholz, Andrea Wehrhahn
Edeltraut Rath
Dream cushion
paper cushions, installation / objects
GS Osterhop: Marta Zyskowski, Lena Mathiaszyk
Monika B. Beyer
I see what you do not see
picture stories, film, community picture
DRK Kinderhaus Kleine Marsch: Anke Reppin, Mareike Keske
Reiner Will
The tower to order
collages, pictures, objects, short presentations after div. originals
Elementary school Brinkmannstraße: Cathrin Bründer / Katrin Neudert
Melissa Chelmis
Metamorphosis – To cover or not?
Drawings, stories, etchings, bookbinding
BGH Hemelingen: Edna Lüttmann
KATTENTURM
Usche Nickel-Funck
Tower of Babbel
idioms from all over the world, 3dim.Wimmelbild
Treff Spielhaus and KuFZ Wischmannstraße: Regina Schmidt, Natalja Diring, Julian Steffen-Krause
Sophia Klerings
In search of heroes
of heroes and saints in bible, koran, susa and comics, hero shrines
Bürgerhaus Obervieland: Karin Wolf, Rahel Faust, Marcela Scholling
Gertrud Schleising
Let’s go – would have, would have, bicycle chain / space installation, objects bicycle, performance
All-day school A.d. Stichnathstraße: Sabina Haase
HUCKELRIEDE
Caroline Schwarz
RE/Trans Formation
Tatoos, piercing, scars etc. set signs of life, casting of body parts from plaster, clay
OS Wilhelm-Kaisen: Julia Herbst
NEUSTADT
Claudia A. Cruz
Viewed again / Variations # 2
photography, audio, video, installations
OS at Leibnizplatz: Aleksandra Orcholski
Frank Scheffka
blossoms & false fuffziger
photography, staging montage on banknotes
Awo Integra day care center: Gabi Murr, Silke Mückley
WOLTMERSHAUSEN
Antonio Velasco Muñoz
Snow White’s Skyscraper
Installation based on “Tower of Babel
GS Rechtenflether Straße: Simona Wedemeyer
CENTER / EASTERN SUBURB
Sylvia Dierks
The colorful world of butterflies
Painting on canvas and collage
Übersee Museum: Susanne Hammacher
Hervé Maillet
VIPs big & small Photographs of Bremen celebrities and own portraits
Playhouse Friesenstraße: Kerstin Buricke
Udo Steinmann
Transformations 2017
Prints, etchings
St. Johannis School: Leena Tanner
Anke Fischer, author
Exquisite pictures / writing workshop
St. Johannis School Leena Tanner
HUCHTING
Waldemar Grazewicz
You & You & You
Painting, small pictures as one big community picture
KuFZ Amersfoorter Street: Bozena Domagala
Rosa Jaisli
Stones tell stories (What is hidden under the cloth?) Working with bacon and alabaster stone
Huchting district farm: Sigrun Bösemann, Jürgen Rieche
Bo Su
Written pictures – painted words Ink painting and brushes made of natural materials
Curative education day group Huchting Alten Eichen gGmbH: C. Stüter
Alexander von Humboldt High School: Susanne Diezelmüller, Jennifer Rieger
Caroline Schwarz
Marked by life – body art
Tatoos, piercing, scars etc. set signs of life, casting of body parts from plaster, clay
Alten Eichen childcare center Quartier Robinsbalje: Adem Hacikerimoglu, Darja Brakhoff
Dorit Hillebrecht
Traces of paint
Floor object
Elementary school on Delfter Straße: Dörte Ehlert
Katrin Seithel
Pavement Cluster
Pictures, video, film – patterns, forms, repetitions, structures
Mütterzentrum Huchting e.V.: Stefanie Straube, Petra Wagner
NEW VAHR
Monika B. Beyer
Close to skin
Painted body parts as small beings – films
Civic Center Neue Vahr: Jutta Möller, Nuray Serin
OSLEBSHAUSEN / WALLE
Dorothee Wunder
What do you see? And what is not to see?
Spray paintings based on own stagings
high school in the park: Nadine Haverkamp
Beyond tales
drawings, texts, collages, settings, film clips
Berufsbildende Schule Mitte: for wholesale/foreign trade and transport Susanne Buchholz
BLUMENTHAL
Waldemar Grazewicz
You & You & You
Painting, small pictures as one big community picture
OS an der Lehmhorster Straße: Margret Gerdes
GROHN
Elke Prieß
The shadow is me
bodies, sculptures, objects throw shadow pictures/stories, play with 3/2- dimensionality, alienation, photos, sketches, cutting
KuFZ Grohn: Olga White
Manuela Rose
head to head
Portrait series painted
Elementary school at the water: Ute Schmidt