Adlershof Municipal Gallery transforms its education space into an open studio for anyone interested in getting creative, whether it’s experimenting together, having a chat, or enjoying a coffee. You’re are welcome to bring along your own projects to work on in a social setting. Alternatively, various artistic techniques can be explored on site with guidance. If you’re curious about making art, this is the place to start.
 
The workshop is to everyone who wants to try something creative, whether old or young, together or alone, with or without previous experience.
 
This workshop is brought to you in partnership with Jugendkunstschule Treptow-Köpenick.
 
Registration at kunstvermittlung@galerie-alte-schule-adlershof.de

How do trees speak to us? What do they speak about? And how do they communicate with each other? Using all our senses, and with the creative technique of frottage, we take an exploratory journey into nature touching on themes of love, flight, biography and climate change. The exhibition Skin and Wood featuring photographs by Loredana Nemes, in which trees are a central motif, provides space and inspiration for the journey.
 
Workshop for school classes and preschool groups.
 
Registration at vermittlung@hausamkleistpark.de

You are probably familiar with still lifes from old paintings. But did you know that still life is also found in photography? On a tour of the Vera Mercer – Life in Focus exhibition, we will explore Vera Mercer’s striking (still life) photography together. Afterwards, we’ll create our own still lifes in 3D using modelling clay, found objects, wood. A great opportunity to experiment with interesting materials!
 
For ages 6 to 12 years
 
Workshop leader: Franka Geiser, Linda Furker
 
Registration at christina.buech@zitadelle-berlin.de

Art that is close to politics and activism but is very satirical and visually comic. Textile artist Lillian Morrissey paints and embroiders large-format tapestries, exploring themes including hero myths. Her character world includes figures from current events, television, cartoons, video games, and pop culture. What stories might interest us and could they be told through embroidery?
 
Workshop for school groups
 
Registration at daniela.herr@ba-pankow.berlin.de

You’re invited to explore the vegetation in the Körnerkiez neighbourhood. How did these plants get here? Were their seeds carried here by wind, or animals, or people?
With the help of the Seek app, we will scan them and then take samples. Back in the print studio, we’ll use the monotype printing technique to create detailed impressions of the plant parts we’ve gathered.
Seek App ( https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app ) by inaturalist.
 
Workshop for children from 9 to 12 years and families with children 6 years and up.  
 
Workshop leader: Eleni Mouzourou, Talya Lubinsky
 
Registration at birgit.binder@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
 
Körnerpark has barrier-free access via Wittmanssdorfer Straße. On the left side of the park, a ramp leads to the creative space, located just to the right of the gallery.

You’re invited to explore the vegetation in the Körnerkiez neighbourhood. How did these plants get here? Were their seeds carried here by wind, or animals, or people?
With the help of the Seek app, we will scan them and then take samples. Back in the print studio, we’ll use the monotype printing technique to create detailed impressions of the plant parts we’ve gathered.
Seek App ( https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/seek_app ) by inaturalist.
 
Workshop for children from 9 to 12 years and families with children 6 years and up.  
 
Workshop leader: Eleni Mouzourou, Talya Lubinsky
 
Registration at birgit.binder@bezirksamt-neukoelln.de
 
Körnerpark has barrier-free access via Wittmanssdorfer Straße. On the left side of the park, a ramp leads to the creative space, located just to the right of the gallery.

Ephemeral papers – posters, flyers, packaging from past exhibitions – are given new life. In this workshop, they are cut, folded and layered into create books that are no longer books, but sculptures of memory and transformation. Every trace of the old flows into new forms; each page breathes a different story. A space of play and possibility emerges, where books grow like living organisms – free, experimental, and open to all who want to spin new worlds from leftover scraps. The upcycling workshop introduces participants to the art of bookbinding.
 
Workshop for children 5 years old and over, teens, and adults.
 
Languages: German, English, Portuguese
 
Workshop leader: Daniela Herig
 
Registration at Max.Luebke@ba-mitte.berlin.de or 0173 6839287

Walls, niches, fences – when you listen closely, they all make sounds. In this workshop, we eavesdrop on the spaces around us, collecting rustles, echoes, claps, and whispers. The sounds we discover will be drawn, shared, amplified, and imitated. We’ll create a collective soundscape that connects architecture, body, and imagination. Using simple materials, handmade instruments, and our voices, we turn walls into resonating bodies, explore rhythms, and reveal hidden sounds — an auditory journey through space and time in the monastery ruins.

Workshop for children aged from 5 to 10 years.

Languages: German, English
 
Workshop leader: Dina Boswank
 
Registration at Max.Luebke@ba-mitte.berlin.de or 0173 6839287

More than meets the eye – the microscope reveals hidden worlds. Tiny fragments turn into vast landscapes, textures, and beings. Together we collect, observe, and magnify, tracing lines and transforming details into fantastic creatures. With colors, fabrics, and imagination, new beings come alive, filling the space with once-invisible wonders – now visible, shimmering between art, science, and imagination.

Languages: German, English, Turkish
 
Workshop for ages 10 to 12 years.
 
Workshop leader: Erhan Muratoglu and accompanying person
 
Registration at Max.Luebke@ba-mitte.berlin.de or 0173 6839287

A camera obscura is, in its simplest form, a darkened room into which light enters from outside through a small hole – an image of the outside world is projected into the interior as if by magic. It is the beginning of photography, the ur-ancestor of all photographic cameras.
How does it work? All will be revealed in this workshop. Using simple materials like cardboard, tape, and tracing paper, you’ll build your own camera obscura boxes or viewing devices to observe and reinterpret details in your surroundings with fresh eyes.
You can take the camera home with you after the workshop.

Languages: English, German, Spanish
 
For families with children aged 5 and up and unaccompanied children aged 10 and up.

The workshop is accessible to all
 
Register at kontakt@labor-m.berlin