“I See You, You See Me” workshop for the exhibition of Bernhard Heiliger, 5 October 2025. Photographer: Yevheniia Havrylenko. © Kunsthaus Dahlem, 2025.

• About the workshop
• Costs and tickets
• Additional dates
• Art educators

Workshop for German- and English-speaking families as well as adults, teenagers and children aged 6 and up – with and without disabilities.

About the workshop

In this workshop, you will experience the face as a reflection of your feelings, ideas and abilities. At a photo station, you can experiment with different facial expressions and take a photograph of them. How can you recognise when a person is happy or angry, surprised or bored? Using various pens on transparent paper, trace the outlines of eyes, noses and mouths. Afterwards, you can model a head using clay, modelling dough or masking tape.

You can also draw inspiration from the portraits by the sculptor Bernhard Heiliger on view in the exhibition Bernhard Heiliger – The Female Heads. Whether realistic or shaped through your own forms and ideas – use your creativity and imagination to give your heads a vivid expression.

With Tanja-Bianca Schmidt (art historian, art educator), Hagar Ophir (art educator, artist) and Rosa Witt (student workshop facilitator)

Costs and tickets

Participation is free of charge. You only pay the admission fee to the Kunsthaus: see prices
Admission tickets are available on site.

Additional dates

Sunday, 19 October, 12–3 pm, with Tanja-Bianca Schmidt and Hagar Ophir

Art educators

► Tanja-Bianca Schmidt studied art history in a global context. Her areas of focus include critiques of power, Black identity and postcolonial theory. She works as a political educator for various museums in Berlin and regularly leads workshops on discrimination-sensitive approaches to art history.

► Hagar Ophir is a multidisciplinary artist trained as a historian, stage designer and dancer. Her practice explores the potential of art and education projects to create knowledge, with a particular focus on history as a space for rethinking and realising alternative possible presents. She leads workshops at various institutions in Berlin and is also co-founder of mitkollektiv, an intersectional art education collective, as well as the art education project Reimagine Jetzt!