Poetry and frottage workshop for children and their accompanying adults

With Gabriel Rossell Santillán (artist)

What happens when we touch instead of just looking? In this workshop, participants explore the world with their hands. Stones, tree bark, manhole covers and other traces of the surroundings invite touch. The hidden rhythms of these materials then appear on paper as patterns and vibrations. Through the repeating and reshaping of forms, letters and lines, new connections to the world emerge. A surface can become a landscape, a trace a creature, and a shape a memory. Cutting, gluing and layering breathe life into new images, and the materials begin to tell their own stories.

Although the workshop will be mainly in German, we mention the languages spoken by the facilitators to make it more accessible. If you don’t feel confident in German, don’t worry — you can still take part. We are committed to respectful interaction. Discriminatory behavior has no place at our events.

Gabriel Rossell Santillán (born in Mexico City in 1977) explores the transformation of cultural knowledge in his work. On his travels through Mexico, he searches for cultural traditions that have been largely ignored or almost forgotten. In photographs and video installations, he transports the content he finds into the present, thus creating an alternative canon of (world) history.

Due to the limited number of participants, please register here. Participation in public events is included with the museum admission. Meeting point: ticket counter in the foyer.