12.06.2025
14:00 – 17:00
BUILDING A COLLABORATIVE HOME – Drop-in Workshop with Jessica Ostrowicz (EN / DE)
Drop-in frottage workshop for children and adults. No registration required – participants can join at any time during the workshop hours. The offer is aimed at German- and English-speaking visitors.
Part of the festival programme 10 YEARS – 10 DAYS! to mark the 10th anniversary of Kunsthaus Dahlem
About the Workshop
Building a Collaborative Home is an interactive art workshop that invites visitors to explore the concept of home as a collective, creative effort. Inspired by the way birds build their nests using materials from their immediate surroundings, this project will encourage participants to contribute to the construction of a symbolic house made entirely from frottage* drawings of surfaces in the Kunsthaus building or garden. These drawings will be attached to a large, house-shaped frame, creating a visual and tactile representation of a shared, community-built home. The workshop reflects the idea that home is more than bricks and mortar – it is something we create together.
* Frottage is a technique of rubbing over textured surfaces with crayons or pencils to create interesting patterns.
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Costs and Tickets
All anniversary events are free of charge for all visitors.
Jessica Ostrowicz – Biography
Jessica Ostrowicz is a multidisciplinary artist based in London. She studied Fine Arts in Dresden and Contemporary Art Practice with a focus on Critical Practice at the Royal College of Art in London. In her works on paper, installations, sculptures, and films, she engages with transgenerational trauma as well as possibilities for processing and restitution. She reflects on themes of belonging and what home means for people “who have been displaced, uprooted, or confined”. Since 2023, Ostrowicz has been working at HMP Spring Hill, a men’s prison – first as a prison lecturer, and since March 2025 as an Artist in Residence, supported by the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham and the Rothschild Foundation.
In 2016, Jessica Ostrowicz presented the intervention I and Not a Seraph at Kunsthaus Dahlem and participated in Searching for Traces Towards the Present in 2024, a project against anti-Semitism, where she led two workshops – including Building a Collaborative Home, which will be repeated for the 10-year Anniversary Festival.
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