This is where I learned to love snakes (GER/EN/ES/ID)
Plant and textile workshop / all ages & all genders welcome

With Karen Michelsen Castañón and Gudrun Ingratubun (visual artists)

Lise Gujer wove her deep feeling for the life of plants into her weavings. Her sensory experiences with plants in the Global South and in Switzerland also influenced her approach to her tapestries. With regard to our joint work in the workshop, we will approach the Grunewald with its own history, made up of living beings, but characterised by centuries of capitalist interests.  

In this workshop we will collect different plant leaves and forms from the surrounding Grunewald. Using a special process, we will print them onto fabrics. The fine and different structures of leaves and needles will be imprinted on the fabrics. We then paint and embroider further elements onto the printed fabrics, which we then sew together to form a large piece. Can we enable other encounters with the forest with our tapestry?
The event is aimed at people of all ages and genders (all genders welcome). The artists speak German, English, Spanish and Indonesian. Translations are possible in the room to make the workshop more accessible.

Karen Michelsen Castañón (born in Lima, Peru) is a visual artist, filmmaker and freelance researcher. Her work deals with the way (colonial) stories are told and includes short films, photographs and textiles. She questions how both hegemonic and invisible stories are re-staged in our everyday lives and how this relates to current social events. 

Gudrun Ingratubun (born 1969) studied agriculture and English and lived in Indonesia for a long time. Since returning to Berlin, she has been translating Indonesian literature into German. As an artist, she deals with social spaces, colonial structures, the climate crisis and collective mourning. Her botanical prints (Ecoprints) on paper and fabric, mixed media works and planted upcycling installations at documenta fifteen in Kassel and in Berlin-Charlottenburg invite dialogue and collective action at ear level. Her most recent works deal with the colonial histories of trees of the gods, indigo, za’atar, pines and olive trees.

Due to the limited number of participants, please register here. Public events are free with a museum ticket. Meeting point: ticket counter in the foyer.