Photo: Anika Büssemeier

The programme of Education & Outreach is redefining the role of Brücke-Museum and its collection for our current times of social and political change. We make connections between our visitors, the neighbourhood, cultural actors, artists and practitioners to discuss contemporary artistic and social questions. We work with a wide variety of partners and remain open to establishing new contacts.

Direction: Daniela Bystron, Curator of Outreach
Art mediators: Karen Michelsen Castañón, Dalila Daut, Jülia Devies, Theseas Efstathopoulos, L.L., Sieglinde Lemcke, Marcos García Pérez, Carla Schliephack, Tanja-Bianca Schmidt

Cooperation

ONSITE Artist Residency

Interdisciplinary artist residency and art festival at the Brücke-Museum, curated by Po:era

We invite artists of all disciplines (for example performance, theater, fine arts, dance, sound, film etc.), creatives and interdisciplinary practitioners from different countries to apply with a site-specific project, research or action proposal for the Grunewald and the neighborhood of Berlin-Dahlem. The residency will take place in the garden and the Waldraum (“forest room”) of the Brücke-Museum. Local artists from the neighboring LebensWerkGemeinschaft will join the programme and share their work spaces with the participating artists.

Po:era will accompany the collective and individual creative process during the residency and organize workshops, labs and inputs on site-specific research, among others with the artists’ collectives Gob Squad and Club Real.

Residents receive a remuneration of 500 EUR, free lunch and a room in shared accommodation for 10€/night.

The artistic experiments, actions, interventions or projects will be presented from 2nd to 3rd September 2023 as part of the ONSITE Festival Grunewald at the Brücke-Museum.

This project is part of the initiative DRAUSSENSTADT, funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Foundation for Cultural Education and Cultural Consulting.

Click now by filling the >application form<

Further information: www.onsitefestival.com

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Julia Friedrich, Bild und Gegenbild. Otto Mueller und Peter Nestler im Museum Ludwig, Köln

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Table Discussion: Digitisation (in German)

With Isabel Fischer (Project Manager Digital Transformation, Brücke Museum) and Clara Westendorff (Museologist, Berlin)

 

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Table Discussion: Communicate (in German)

With Daniela Bystron (Curator of Outreach, Brücke Museum) and Susan Kamel (Professor of Museology, HTW Berlin)

 

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Table Discussion: Research - Focus Provenance (in German)

With Nadine Bauer (Provenance Researcher, Berlin and Hamburg) and Ute Haug (Head of Provenance Research and Collection History, Hamburger Kunsthalle)

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Table Discussion: Research - Focus Catalogue Raisonné (in German)

With Christiane Remm (Researcher, Karl and Emy Schmidt-Rottluff Foundation) and Aya Soika (Professor of Art History, Bard College Berlin)

 

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Table Discussion: Curating

With Christian Jankowski (Artist), Barbara Steiner (Director, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation) and Lisa Marei Schmidt (Director, Brücke Museum).

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Adults

Public Guided Tours

Our public guided tours provide you with the opportunity to explore and discuss the current exhibition together with one of our art mediators.

You can find the current programme in our calendar.

Adults

Private Tour

You are welcome to book a private guided group tour.

60 mins, German: € 80 / English, German Sign Language, Spanish: € 90
Museumsdienst Berlin
+49 (0)30 247 49 888 (Mon–Fri: 9 am–3 pm, Sat–Sun: 9 am–1 pm)
museumsdienst@kulturprojekte.berlin

School

Gallery Talks

In interactive gallery talks, the current exhibition will be presented and discussed together. The focus is on the participants’ own examination of the works and on dialogical approaches to mediation. A few selected works of art are used as examples to address the theme of the respective exhibition. The exhibition discussions are based on respectful cooperation and a discrimination-sensitive approach.

Information and Booking

90 min., German/ English: € 80
Museumsdienst Berlin
+49 (0)30 247 49 888 (Mon – Fri: 9 am – 4 pm, Sat – Sun: 9 am – 1 pm)
museumsdienst[at]kulturprojekte.berlin

School

Project days in the Waldraum (forest room)

Project days are artistic-practical workshops. Part of the workshops is always a visit to the current exhibition. On the basis of selected works of art, the respective workshop topic is developed together with the students.

Duration: 3 hours

Costs: 135 euros / reduced: 100 euros (for up to 15 participants)

The program is being developed in cooperation with Jugend im Museum e.V. and is currently being edited. It will be published by the beginning of October.

 

Information and booking:

Jugend im Museum e.V.

eMail: schule@jugend-im-museum.de

 

Children & Family

Brücke-Box

Photo: Thomas & Renée Rapedius

The Brücke-Box contains materials and tools to encourage a playful approach to art. It is all about colours, shapes, fabrics and stories. Children, young people and families can borrow the box free of charge at the cash desk. The box encourages the exchange about art through playful approaches. We recommend using it from the age of 5 accompanied by an adult; for independent use, children must be able to read.

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Table Discussion: Conservation

Conversation between Felicitas Klein (Conservator, Berlin) and Elena Schroll (Curator of Collection, Brücke Museum) from 17 November 2022.

An important task of museums is to preserve the works of art, to conserve them for posterity as cultural heritage and to restore them if necessary. This task, which is usually invisible to the public, is discussed in this table talk between the curator of the collection Elena Schroll and the conservator Felicitas Klein.

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Table Discussion: Tasks of a Museum

Talk with Alina Gromova (Head of Collections and Exhibitions, Foundation New Synagogue Berlin - Centrum Judaicum) and Daniela Bystron (Curator of Outreach, Brücke Museum) from 20 October 2022.

What are actually the tasks of a museum? The International Council of Museums (ICOM) lays down precisely these tasks in a definition. This definition and the tasks formulated in it are in a state of flux - in this way museums react to social and (cultural) political changes. Currently, a new museum definition was adopted by ICOM in August 2022; previously, the association had been using a definition since 1946, which was last amended in 2007. From 2016 to 2022, another change was hotly debated. In this event we will discuss the relevance, translatability and meaning of the new ICOM definition and the debates that have been and are being held around the changes.

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Talk
Millis Awakening with Natasha A. Kelly

Milli’s Awakening: Film screening and lecture with Natasha A. Kelly in the exhibition Whose Expression? at the Brücke-Museum, moderated by Daniela Bystron.

Nadu (born 1955), a mask maker, Naomi (born 1965), an actress, and Maciré (born 1995), a student, are three of eight protagonists who have in common that they are Black women* living in Germany and working in the art context. Their biographical narratives show to what extent the occupation with art, in all its forms, can serve as a “remedy” to alleviate emotional isolation and social oppression. For Black women* have always been eroticised and exoticised by the white male gaze. In the works of many Expressionists, which are considered “classics”, they were depicted merely as “objects of desire”. The painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, for example, did not so much seek to explore the anatomy of women*s bodies during the heyday of German colonialism. Rather, he was concerned with feeling his own masculine power through the supposed “nature-boundness” of his motifs. In 1911, he painted the sleeping Milli lying naked on a couch. He only allowed his own potency to be a source of inspiration. While numerous art historians focus their analyses on Kirchner’s sexual fantasies as well as his aesthetics, the film delves into the world of thoughts and feelings of his “muse” and allows Milli to awaken symbolically. In interviews with filmmaker Natasha A. Kelly, Black artists of different generations have their say, who in and through their artistic work have overcome the common colonial stereotypes and formed their own self-determined identity as Black women* within the white German majority society. They report on their challenges in and with German art institutions, on visual representation and political and social exclusion. Where can their experiences be built upon? Which strategies can be brought together? Which ones need to be rethought? Art thus not only forms the architecture of the film, but is also presented as the cornerstone for the social and political actionism of those involved in the project. In the bilingual publication of the same name, the interviews conducted are printed in their full length. The aim is to show the significance of artistic creation from a Black feminist perspective.

 

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Talk
What is Unseen Cannot Be Broken von Saba Innab

Talk March 5 2022 by Saba Innab about the display of the Transition Exhibition at Kunsthaus Dahlem. The artist will be activating her display with a lecture on the abstraction of the decolonial discourse.

The multidisciplinary practice of the Palestinian-Jordanian architect, artist, and urban researcher Saba Innab (1980) spans historical research, drawing, mapping, model-making, and spatial interventions. Innab explores suspended states between temporality and permanence, and is concerned with variable notions of dwelling and building and their political, spatial and poetic implications in language and architecture. Recent exhibitions include: 57th edition of Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 2018; Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, Frac Centre-Val de Loire, Orléans, 2017; Marrakech Biennial, Marrakech, 2016, and her recent solo exhibitions include: Station Point, ifa-Galerie, Berlin, 2019; Al Rahhalah, Marfa’, Beirut, 2016. Innab was a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin fellow for 2020-2021.

 

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Talk
About the Center of Unfinished Business

Über das Center of Unfinished Business: A Talk with Julia Grosse und Yvette Mutumba (C&)

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba have accompanied the Brücke Museum as experts during its engagement with the topic of colonialism. The museum invited them to contribute the exhibition Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists in a Colonial Context with their Center for Unfinished Business to add a critical and contemporary voice. In addition, in their capacity as teachers at the Institute for Art in Context at the UdK Berlin, the two led the seminar Colonialism and the Brücke artists’ group, in which they addressed the topic theoretically. Artistic interventions by the students were created as part of the accompanying program of Whose Expression?

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba will introduce the Center for Unfinished Business in their talk. Moderation: Daniela Bystron, Curator for Outreach, Brücke Museum

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Brücke After Hours
Freundinnenschaft

What is it like to work with a good friend? How do media representations of friendship shape our relationships today? And what does solidarity among friends look like? Together with our guests Alice Hasters and Maxi Häcke (Feuer & Brot) we talked about friendship, networks and mutual support while walking through the exhibition Max Kaus. Among Friends.

Brücke After Hours offers alternative views of the collection and exhibitions of the Brücke-Museum. Curated by the museum’s assistant curators, the invited guests come into dialogue with the public.

Having taken place without an audience because of the current containment regulations, the event was recorded. You can watch the video here.

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Talk
Moments of Unrest. On the Re-activation of Colonial Collections

Moments of Unrest: Talk in the Transition Exhibition at Kunsthaus Dahlem [DE].

In the debate about contaminated colonial heritage, it has become increasingly clear that collections from colonial contexts can be found not only in ethnological museums, but also in artists’ estates. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff also amassed a collection of approximately 100 ritual and everyday “subject/objects” (Felwine Sarr). He collected them according to personal standards, because of their formal beauty and supposed originality, and partly integrated them into his paintings. After Karl Schmidt-Rottluff’s death, they were categorized according to scientific standards and set aside in the depot. The collection bears witness not only to the expansion of Eurocentric horizons, but also to the history of colonial appropriation and the arbitrary overwriting of former meanings. How can a new way of dealing with these things be found in dialogue with the so-called societies of origin? To what extent can participatory digital formats subvert colonial linguistic conventions and hierarchizations? How can the “subject/objects” but also the institutions themselves be put into “disquiet”? How can the transformative moment of disquiet be made productive: for public critique, but also for new forms of cooperation, dialogical research and exhibition formats, and finally for restitutions?

A conversation with with Agustina Andreoletti (Digitales Outreach, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Cologne), Julia Binter (Postcolonial Provenance Research, Zentralarchiv Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Anna Brus (Digitisation project Brücke-Museum & Research associate, Universität zu Köln), Michi Knecht (Ethnologist, Contradiction Studies, Universität Bremen), Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa (Mission and colonial historian, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden) and Nanette Snoep (Director Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum Cologne)

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Talk
Rabaul, Rakaia, Na Ta (The Mangrove, The Volcanoes, The Deep Ocean)

Rabaul, Rakaia, Na Ta (The Mangrove, The Volcanoes, The Deep Ocean)

Artist talk with Lisa Hilli in the exhibition Transition Exhibition at Kunsthaus Dahlem, moderated by Paz Guevara.

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Re-sighting

In the series Re-sighting, experts from different disciplines put the exhibition in context from their particular perspective – an exhibition tour based on discussion.

You can find the current programme in our calendar.

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Family Workshops

For PLAY! Family Workshop at Brücke-Museum, children from 5 years of age and all families are warmly invited to visit and experience the museum and its current exhibition.

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Voices on the exhibition

Duration: February 2022

Photo: Annemone Meyer

In February, three classes of the Dreilinden-Gymnasium visited the exhibition Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism. The results of their work on the exhibition can be heard and seen by clicking on the link below. The work offers an insight into the thoughts, questions and feelings they have on the exhibition at the Brücke-Museum. The contribution represents an important and valuable enrichment to the exhibition.

 

Dreilinden-Gymnasium, Wannsee: advanced art courses of Ms. Singh and Ms. Meyer and class 9d

Medienkompetenzzentrum Steglitz-Zehlendorf: Rudolf Freundhofer

Project Management: Daniela Bystron, Julia Devies, Rudolf Freundhofer, Lotte Wintraecken

Workshop concept for the exhibition: Josephine Valerie Deutesfeld

Workshop leader: Josephine Valerie Deutesfeld, Marina Resende Santos

Support: Judith Kirchner

 

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Naturally Art!
School collaboration

Duration: December 2019 – August 2020

In exchange with children and young people from two Berlin schools, we would like to find out what a redesign and new use of the museum garden could look like in the sense of the Brücke. Drawing and painting of people in nature was one of the core themes of the artists’ group. The Brücke-Museum, created especially for the artists, blends into the forest landscape and combines nature, art and architecture. The expressionist group created such connections in their works.

How can the museum’s garden today become a place where different people like to spend time? How can young people in particular get involved in museum work and create their own spaces in the garden? The interaction between art and nature can be experienced and tested on the museum’s grounds and in the adjoining forest.

Nord-Grundschule, Zehlendorf: Class 6b, Mrs Tscheslog and Mrs Zick
Schule am Schloss, Charlottenburg: Class 9e, Mrs Siemers and Mrs Baumgartner
Project management: Nora Hogrefe, assistant curator of Outreach
Workshop concept for the exhibition: Jülia Devies and L.L., art educators
Workshop concept for the garden: Bérengère Chauffeté, landscape architect
Fotographic documentation: Anna Duda
Design printed documentation: Lisa Pepita Weiss, download documentation here

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Interventions at Brücke-Museum – Working with the Public
University collaboration

Duration: April–July 2020

In the seminar Interventions at Brücke-Museum – Working with the Public, interdisciplinary teamwork develops approaches to art education based on design and art. The cooperation with the Brücke-Museum from 2019 will now be continued and deepened under difficult conditions during the digital semester.

First of all, various approaches to art education will be analysed using selected formats. Questions of performativity and interaction will be discussed. In the related artistic-practical part, mediation concepts can be developed that move between the museum building and the collection as well as the garden and nature. Finally, the developed concepts will be realised together with the public on 15 July 2020, 12 noon–4 pm.

Kunsthochschule Weißensee: Prof. Mona Jas
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron

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New presentation: The Brücke-Museum. Texts for an up-to-date collection presentation
University collaboration

Duration: April – July 2020

Since 2017, Brücke-Museum has been under a new management. The view on the in-house artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller and their colleagues is to be updated and anchored in the present. With this in mind, the museum is striving for close cooperation with scientists and artists. The first temporary exhibitions already show that many research questions have remained unanswered after the stylistic development of Brücke Expressionism had been in the foreground since the museum was founded in 1967.

Out of this desideratum, the project seminar is conceived with practical relevance to museum activities as its focus. The participants are introduced to the history of Brücke art as well as to different functions and hierarchies of texts in the museum by Meike Hoffmann (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin), Lisa Marei Schmidt (Director, Brücke-Museum) and Daniela Bystron (Curator of Outreach, Brücke-Museum). On this basis, the participants write their own texts for works or groups of works from the collection of Brücke-Museum.

Freie Universität Berlin: Dr. Meike Hoffmann
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron, Lisa Marei Schmidt

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Friendship – Network – Exchange: Artistic Influences
Interactive Exhibition Tour

What does friendship mean to you? Which contacts are important for you? And how do you express that in pictures and presents? Berlin-based painter Max Kaus (1881–1977) was a close friend of the Brücke artists.

The students were encouraged to find creative ways of expressing friendship in the exhibition Max Kaus. Among Friends and talked about similarities and differences between Max Kaus and the Brücke using various practical exercises.

Nursery, primary school, section I, section II
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

Archive

For Kids! Game of cards

The set of cards could guide you through the exhibition. You were free to draw, tell stories, and express your ideas and observations. Each card refered to a specific work of art or an aspect of the exhibition.

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It fits! Frames and Pictures by the Brücke
Interactive Exhibition Tour

November 2019 – March 2020

What would a painting be without a frame? How do artwork and frame fit together?

The Brücke artists have themselves created and commissioned frames for their paintings. Together we examined pictures and frames in the exhibition Never Apart and looked for Expressionist characteristics. Colours, shapes and materials played a major role.

Nursery, primary school
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

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Framed and exhibited: What are the limits of art?
Interactive Exhibition Tour

November 2019 – March 2020

The frame limits the painting and thus clearly defines the boundaries of the artwork – doesn’t it?

Together, the students set out through the exhibition Never Apart in search of limitations and questioned the social framing of Brücke art, both then and now.

Primary school, section I, section II
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

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Thinking art didactics another way – Museum
University collaboration

Duration: October 2019 – March 2020

Together with the Institute for Art Didactics and Aesthetic Education of the Berlin University of the Arts, forms of art didactics in connection with the out-of-school learning location museum, which is particularly important for art teaching, were discussed and experienced in this seminar.

In particular, art-didactic perspectives were designed and discussed on the basis of individual approaches to the museum as a place of (self-)education.

Berlin University of the Arts: Conrad Rodenberg
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron

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New presentation: The Brücke-Museum. Concepts for an up-to-date collection presentation
University collaboration

Duration: October 2019 – März 2020

Since 2017, Brücke-Museum has been under a new management. The view on the in-house artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Otto Mueller and their colleagues is to be updated and anchored in the present. With this in mind, the museum is striving for close cooperation with scientists and artists. The first temporary exhibitions already show that many research questions have remained unanswered after the stylistic development of Brücke Expressionism had been in the foreground since the museum was founded in 1967.

Out of this desideratum, the project seminar was conceived with practical relevance to museum activities as its focus. The participants were introduced to the history of Brücke art as well as to curatorial work with museum collections and international discourses by Meike Hoffmann (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin), Lisa Marei Schmidt (Director, Brücke-Museum) and Daniela Bystron (Curator of Outreach, Brücke-Museum). On this basis, the participants developed concepts for the presentation and mediation of individual groups of works from the collection of Brücke-Museum.

Freie Universität Berlin: Dr. Meike Hoffmann
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron, Lisa Marei Schmidt

 

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For Tomorrow. Artistic Interventions in the Museum
University collaboration

Duration: April–July 2019

Questioning the Canon and Codes, Learning and Forgetting 

The aim of the seminar project was to examine experimental artistic approaches to art education and communication, extending from modernism to contemporary art. Participants analysed how different perspectives and cultural experiences of various networks and local neighbourhoods can be embedded in education through the use of society’s cultural canon. Building on this questioning, participants realised their own creative ideas for an artistic intervention at Brücke-Museum based on their specialist field.

Conclusion with artistic interventions at Brücke-Museum: 10 July 2019, 5–9 pm

Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee: Prof. Mona Jas
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron

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Museum's garden redesigned
School project

Duration: April – June 2019

The exhibition Escape into Art? explored the scope for action in a dictatorship. During the war years, the artists withdrew from the city and found shelter in the countryside. This retreat into nature meant distance, peace and relaxation for them. What is it like today? Where do you retreat to when you are not feeling well? Are there places in nature where you feel good? And how would the garden and the museum have to be designed to make you enjoy being there?

Together with two artists (photography and film), the students explored the museum’s garden and developed their own ideas for its transformation. Afterwards they made short filmson personally chosen topics.

Hermann-Ehlers-Schule, Steglitz: Class 7c, Agnes Rohde und Arif Ulu
Script writer: Chris Wittenborn
Photographer: Henrike Hannemann
Programme Kulturagenten: Kristin Reinhardt
Project management: Nora Hogrefe

Sponsored by the programme Kulturagenten for creative schools Berlin.

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Excluded: Who makes the decisions here?
Interactive Exhibition Tour

April – August 2019

How does it feel to be excluded? Who decides who belongs and who doesn’t? The Brücke artists could no longer work as artists in National Socialism and their pictures were no longer allowed to be shown.

Together with the children, we were reflecting in the context of the exhibition Escape into Art? about questions like: What role do exclusion and discrimination play in their everyday lives today? Which solutions can be worked out together? The children explored the exhibition and talked about relevant questions of power, freedom and resistance in their everyday lives.

Primary school, section I
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

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Power Sharing: Artistic Strategies of Resistance
Interactive Exhibition Tour

April – August 2019

How and where can I change my attitude, my actions and my environment in order to work together with others for a fair society? How can I defend myself against discrimination? How do I find a productive way of dealing with my own privileges?

Dealing with the fate and room to manoeuvre of the Brücke artists under National Socialism in the exhibition Escape into Art? provided an opportunity for discussion about the present and about social power relations. In short exercises and discussions, the students developed ideas for their own (artistic) strategies of resistance.

Section I, section II
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

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“I’ve got to have it!” A Passion for Collecting
Interactive Exhibition Tour

December 2018 – March 2019

What do you collect? Why? What makes people want to collect art? What do museums collect? And what is not collected?

Swiss collector Eberhard W. Kornfeld owns a huge number of artworks, which were being shown in the exhibition Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Swiss Years at Brücke-Museum. As part of this interactive tour, the children addressed the question of what is so fascinating about collecting. Using illustrative material, they identified the qualities and arrangements of collections and applied these to the exhibition.

Nursery, primary school, section I
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

Archive

“Early – late? Applied – free? Good – bad?” Appraisals and terms used in art history
Interactive Exhibition Tour

December 2018 – March 2019

How can art be evaluated? What belongs in a museum and what doesn’t? Who makes these decisions? Students worked together in the exibition Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. The Swiss Years to discuss the evaluation criteria of artworks and through this dialogue they developed their own approach to the institutionalised museum. We ask, what criteria are important when it comes to considering artworks today? And how might they have changed over time?

Sections I and II
Subjects: Art, history, social sciences

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“Sometimes Unanswerable” Student-Centred Research at Brücke-Museum
School collaboration

Duration: September 2018 – August 2019

Of what relevance is the artists’ group Brücke today? How can these artists and their work relate to the everyday life of young people? Are there social and political analogies to be made with the present? How can Brücke art be recontextualised in today’s Berlin? What previously unexplored perspectives can be found in the museum? And how can young people become involved and contribute their questions, ideas and points of view to the museum and its work?

For this project, the participants used a process-oriented, student-centred, participatory approach which is closely aligned to the museum’s own practice: conducting research, propose questions, seeking methods and strategies to suggest possible answers, inviting experts and holding interviews. Sometimes Unanswerable deliberately began with asking young people personal questions oriented related to their biographical and cultural backgrounds, personal interests and tendencies. Here, museum staff, teachers and experts invited by the students themselves gave support in exploring research areas of their choice.  

Sometimes Unanswerable focused on questions but left the answers open – there is no right or wrong. This approach was based on the firm conviction that learning starts with the act of questioning. The particular aim of the project was to supplement the institutions of the museum and the school (which have traditionally stood for canonised knowledge) with more fluid and critical concepts of knowledge. Thus, we put faith in young people to take their questions seriously and to explore their own possible answers using creative strategies.

Kurt-Tucholsky-Schule, Pankow: Grit Wöhlert
Project management: Daniela Bystron, Nora Hogrefe
Artists: Karen Winzer and Markus Strieder, supported by Patrick Lindhof (film) and Anika Büssemeier (photography)

Sponsored by Berlin Project Funds for Cultural Education.

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How time flies by!
Interactive Exhibition Tour

September – December 2018

While playing, time often flies by and while waiting it drags on forever. What’s a long time ago? How long is 100 years? With the exhibition 1913: The Brücke and Berlin, we looked back to the year 1913 from the perspective of the Brücke artists. How do we currently view the time back then and our own present? With drawing and performance exercises we made leaps back and forth in time, we compared, supplemented and played with time.

Primary school, Section I
Subjects: Art, life studies, history, social sciences

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Present Day-Check: 1913 & 2018
Interactive Exhibition Tour

September – December 2018

More than 100 years ago, the Brücke artists portrayed their everyday life in the cafés, variety theatres and streets of Berlin. They searched for new ways of expression and values in everyday life and art. How do we today look back on those times? And how do we perceive our own present? Based on the works of the Brücke artists and the year 1913, the students discussed and researched the social changes and expectations we are subject to in comparison to then. They used various artistic means to translate their thoughts on this into everyday scenes of today.

Section I, section II
Subjects: Art, history, social sciences, german studies

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Cosmopolitan Berlin
Fellowship

Duration: May 2018 – May 2019

In relation to today’s global migration and the ever-increasing threats to artistic freedom, Berlin offers a new home to many artists and cultural workers who are at risk. The initiative Cosmopolitan Berlin, established by the Senate of Berlin, supports artists every year with a fellowship. Brücke-Museum has been working with the artist Kamal Sallat, who explored the artwork The Fishing Boat by Max Pechstein (1913). He was recontextualising this very important work held in Brücke-Museum’s collection, offering a very personal response by producing a series of paintings and a documentary film. At Brücke-Museum’s summer party on 11 August 2019, the film In a boat was screened for the public.

Fellow: Kamal Sallat
Brücke-Museum: Lisa Marei Schmidt, Daniela Bystron

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Curating Exhibitions. Focus: Sexism and Racism
University collaboration

Duration: April 2018–July 2018

For the first time, Brücke-Museum has been working with the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. Students on this course were introduced to fundamental ideas and skills of curating through both theory and practice. They were given insights into curating, programme development, various disciplinary approaches to collecting and exhibiting, the development of exhibition design ideas and narratives as well as the means of conveying information. In small groups, the students conceived an intervention in the presentation of the museum’s collection which takes a critical approach to the themes of sexism and racism.

University of Applied Sciences, Berlin (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft): Prof. Susan Kamel
Brücke-Museum: Daniela Bystron