Co-Crafting Club: Patterns and Textile Printing
Workshop for children and their accompanying adults, as well as families (GER/EN/ES)

With Karen Michelsen Castañón (artist and art mediator) and Susana Vásquez Torres (artist and art mediator)

Patterns are everywhere: in nature, on our clothes, and in art. They can tell different stories and carry different meanings. In this open workshop, we will explore shapes from nature and everyday life, combining them in new ways to create our own patterns. Using sketches, collages, and stencil fabric printing, we will turn our designs into patches for your clothes. Bring a T-shirt or another item of clothing to personalise! About the Co-Crafting Club: Each exhibition introduces a new craft technique linked to its themes. Together, we experiment with materials, share ideas, and discover new creative processes.

This format is part of the FREI RAUM KUNST youth programme, which embraces multilingualism, provides support, and encourages exchange between young people from all backgrounds. No prior knowledge is necessary. 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.

Karen Michelsen Castañón (born in Lima, Perú) 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 restaged in our everyday lives and how this relates to current social events.

Susana Vásquez Torres (born in Lima, Perú) is an interdisciplinary feminist artist who works in the fields of performance, screen printing, book art, and documentary animation. Her work addresses issues such as violence, femicide, menstruation, migration, and grief through the lens of intersectional feminism and community art. Through projects such as “Omas Projekt,” “Bleeding Stories,” and “The Wounded Hours,” she creates spaces for empowerment and new narratives that challenge patriarchal and colonial patterns.

We are committed to respectful interaction. Discriminatory behavior has no place at our events.

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.