Drop-in workshop for kids and adults with Merle Richter

The installation Desire Lines by the artist collective Rent Collective in the exhibition Transient Landscapes is inspired by the Plänterwald forest and the human experience of moving through the forest. Based on this, the drop-in workshop invites participants to explore and create their own designs. Using magnifying glasses, we’ll examine bark, leaves, mosses and lichens and discover their tiny landscapes. The sounds of the installation will serve as additional inspiration. We’ll then use textiles to create our own landscape images by roughening, weaving, frottaging and shaping fabrics to create textile reliefs – small, tactile landscapes merging perception, material and imagination.

Merle Richter is an artist and art educator. Through careful observation and intensive reflection, she explores moments of entanglement between living beings that arise in her immediate surroundings. Her practice is characterised by conceptual, research-based and performative approaches, as well as working with and through various materials, which she understands as a collaborative process. Her educational work and experimental teaching practice aim to stimulate dialogue and discourse and to explore how “material” and installations with “material” can contribute to initiating processes of aesthetic self-education.

Dates:

March 15, 2026, 12:00 - 17:00

April 18,  2026, 12:00 - 17:00

May 23,  2026, 12:00 - 17:00

June 13,  2026, 12:00 - 17:00

You can join at any time.
Language: German and English
No registration required.
Free of charge
Wheelchair-accessible