Ephra at home

What is your favourite colour?
Can art be anything?
What do you want to achieve with your art?
What did you want to be as a child?

The project Ephra at home (Ephra zuhause) is a further development of Ephra on the road. Together with Berlin primary school classes, we meet contemporary artists from Berlin, ask them about their lives, their profession, their art and get creative together. In the premises of the Ephra Floor, children and artists meet and create a creative laboratory where we test participation together, feel, play, discuss or dream, cook lunch, locate ourselves in emotional worlds and landscapes and collect ideas for the future.

Participating artists:

Konstantino Dregos, Ambra Durante, Stella Geppert, David Krippendorff, Ikram Labouini, Asad Raza, Lerato Shadi, Giang Quang Vinh

Both big and small things are created in the workshops with artists. The central theme is emotions and feelings. Because in the complex world in which today's children are growing up, art in particular can help us to pause and reflect on how we are feeling, what moves us and what we need in particular to realise that we are shaping society. In the same way, art asks questions about the pressing and major issues of our time, encourages joint discourse and opens up new perspectives.

Food:

Max Frey, Sofia Tachias

The Ephra-at-home children's catalogue of questions for artists

Ephra-at-home children in the kick-off workshop

The Ephra-at-home house in the workshop with David Krippendorff

An Ephra-at-home child in the workshop with David Krippendorff

Ephra-at-home children in a workshop with Asad Raza

Ephra-at-home children in a workshop with Stella Geppert

An Ephra-at-home child in the workshop with Stella Geppert

Ephra-at-home children run through the Ephra floor

Ephra-at-home children in a workshop with Konstantino Dregos

An Ephra-at-home child cooking with Max Frey and Sofia Tachias

The wheel of emotions

The wheel of emotions records many different feelings. At the beginning and end of each workshop, after a short breathing exercise, the children place themselves on the wheel with the help of a stone. They are then given the opportunity to talk about their own feelings. The wheel also makes the feelings of others visible and easier to understand.

Project management: Malu Blume
Curation: Rebecca Raue, Deiara Kouto
Workshops: Malu Blume, Alexa von Senger
Workshop assistance: Agnes Ehlich, Amelie Gottsmann

A cooperation between Ephra, the Fichtelgebirge Primary School and Kulturagenten für Kreative Schulen

With the kind support of BEOS AG

The project is sponsored by Volkswagen Group Art4All. We would like to thank our sponsors.