Summer Festival Norge Berlin 2022
Summer Party Norge Berlin
On June 23, 2022, Urban Art Kids was present at the summer festival of Norge Berlin. This is an exchange program for students between Berlin and Oslo. In February, we had already conducted a comic course with our artist Hai Hoang Luu and the students on the topic “What is Berlin for you?”. At the summer party, a summary of the comics was presented and “Live” on site the exchange students and host parents could once again immortalize their word about Berlin on the screen. Here is a small selection: Papatastisch (Youth Word of the Year 2021), Doner Kebab, Club Mate, Bicycle, Cheap.
Many thanks again to Nadja Raabe from findq and the NorgeBerlin team for allowing us to be part of your program.
If you are interested in carrying out such a project at your school in Berlin, then get in touch with us!
Sunflower Power - Art project for Ukraine
Sunflower Power - Art project for Ukraine
We support a collective of international Illustrator_innen based in Berlin who have gathered to create a project in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. The Künstler_innen have each created a unique illustration inspired by sunflowers (National Flower of Ukraine) and donate all profits to three organizations that help women, children and the LGBTQ community of Ukraine.*
*Organizations:
www.outrightinternational.org/ukraine
www.uavarta.org/en/ukrainian-womens-guard/
www.unwomen.de/
School project Urban Gardening at Eichendorff-Grundschule
School project "Urban Gardening" at eichendorff primary school
In cooperation with the Eichendorff Primary School, we carried out an urban garden project with ours at the end of May and the beginning of June with several school classes of the 1st-3rd grade.
During the project, the school garden was replanted with herbs and vegetables with the students. In addition, empty milk bags, cans and plastic bottles were used to build flower pots and hanging gardens. In addition to imparting basic knowledge in craft techniques, gardening and plant science, the children also developed an awareness of reusable raw materials. Because with the necessary ingenuity, new material does not always have to be used.
Here are some impressions from the project!
If you are interested in carrying out such a project at your school in Berlin, then get in touch with us!
PODCAST No.24 Artist in Residence Program I Helena Hernandez at Urban Art Kids
Welcome back to the Urban Art Kids podcast 2021 in English. In this episode, we talk to Mexican artist Helena Hernandez about her participation in the Artist in Residence program at Urban Art Kids. Helena has been part of the Urban Art Kids teaching team for more than a year and regularly teaches courses with us.
In December 2020, she stayed in the gallery to work on a beautiful embroidery project that has to do with her childhood. She is the first artist to participate in this AiR program.
In this episode, we talk about how she felt like a child again and had more contact with her family because of the pandemic situation. How all her memories turned into pieces of embroidery, like a girl wearing a fish hat.
Helena also explains why she felt like a tourist in Charlottenburg, as she usually works and lives in Neukölln. The artist’s love and hatred relationship with Neukölln and her hometown of Mexico City. Helena transforms the roughness of the Neukölln neighborhood, where she lives, into her work.
Helena has started a daily embroidery project, which she wants to continue all year round. See Instagram of Helena.
We talked to her about how the pandemic situation affected her life.
She balanced things that kept her busy and information with other things that made her happy. For example, she started baking and growing plants.
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PODCAST No.23 Oso, Watercolor & Crowdfunding I Lujon Cordaro at Urban Art Kids
In the current English podcast, the Argentinian artist Luján Cordaro presents her latest book project “Oso”.
In the spring, Lu returned to Berlin shortly before the lockdown after a 9-month sabbatical and recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on the Platform Kickstarter to fund the book project.
The book is about a little bear who comes to a new place and tries to adapt and make new friends, among other things. This also reflects the story of Luján, who moved from Argentina to Germany several years ago.
In conversation, Lu tells us what little “Oso” is experiencing and how to create your own home through new friends.
In addition, Lu supports artists from Latin America who are new to Berlin with a regular meeting (currently only online). She also regularly teaches watercolour courses for children and adults at Urban Art Kids.
Have fun to listen to! And of course as always, if you like it please rate us, write comments and share our podcast!
PODCAST No.22 Digital Photography as Art I Erkan Dörtoluk at Urban Art Kids
After the summer break we welcome you back to the Urban Art Kids Podcast. In the current podcast we talk to Erkan Dörtoluk, who lives and works as a freelance photographer, social media producer and writer in Düsseldorf.
Erkan is best known for his Twitter account “Rheinbahn intimate“. There he posts weekly scraps of conversations, which he listens to on public transport. In 2016, a book was published by Piper Verlag.
During an exhibition by French photographer Guy Bourdin at the NRW Forum in 2005, he discovered his passion for photography. After a short time, he was approached by numerous customers from the automotive industry, the publishing house and also by the Kunstsammlung NRW whether they were allowed to use his photos. In 2007, Erkan completed his training as one of the first IHK certified “social media managers” in Germany. From the very beginning, he accompanied digital photography and its preparation on social media. In our conversation, he reveals to us, among other things, what makes a good picture for him.
On September 5, Erkan will be a guest of Urban Art Kids. In the basic course of photography with his smartphone, he will explain image composition and image editing to children from the age of 10. We are very excited!
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