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

Inclusive workshop for families, adults, young people and children aged 6 and up – with and without disabilities – creating our own portraits of people who matter to us. We draw and make collages, adding single words or short sentences to the images.

Visitors who speak German or English can attend.

About the workshop

Eva Frankfurther (1930–1959), whose work is currently on view at Kunsthaus Dahlem, painted people who were often overlooked: workers, immigrants and neighbours in London’s East End. She looked closely and gave them a face.

Who would you like to remember? How would you like to remember this person?

First, we become familiar with the portraits by Eva Frankfurther in the exhibition Eva Frankfurther – Drawn from Life, using a range of senses and inclusive materials. Afterwards, we create our own images of people who matter to us. This could be your grandmother, your neighbour, someone you know only in passing or someone from a completely different time. We draw, make collages and write. Speech bubbles are also an option. Gradually, a shared archive of memories takes shape, which will be accessible at Kunsthaus Dahlem during the exhibition.

No prior experience is required for this workshop.

With Hagar Ophir and Anna Meerwein (art educators, artists)

Costs and tickets | Registration

Please register – registration is possible HERE.

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, 10 January 2027, 12–3 pm, with Marian Fuchs (art educator, artist) and Rosa Witt (student workshop facilitator)
• Sunday, 7 February 2027, 12–3 pm, with Anna Meerwein and Hagar Ophir

Art educators

► Marian Fuchs completed her studies in Fine Arts at the École supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes (Nîmes School of Fine Arts), France, earning the DNSEP, a postgraduate diploma, with distinction from the jury. She also obtained certification as a project manager in cultural education and as a multimedia designer. Today, she is an interdisciplinary artist, multimedia designer and freelance art educator. In the latter role, she aims to make the adventure of art accessible to the widest and most inclusive audience possible.

► Anna Meerwein studied graphic design and visual arts at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin). As a costume designer, she has worked at theatres in Hamburg, Berlin and New York. She is active as an art educator at various museums in Berlin, where she develops artistic workshops and educational programmes, including initiatives focused on inclusion. In the context of the current exhibitions, she aims to provide a broad audience with access to the works on display through an artistic approach.

► Karen Michelsen Castañón is a visual artist, filmmaker and art educator. Her work explores the ways in which (colonial) histories are told and includes short films and textiles. She questions how both hegemonic and invisible stories are re-enacted in our everyday lives, and how this relates to current events. To what extent does critical historical knowledge stir our (artistic) actions in the present? She is also co-founder of mitkollektiv, an intersectional arts education collective, and of the art education project Reimagine Jetzt!

► 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!