Ephra x YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal

What does it mean to feel comfortable?
When do I feel secure and why?
What does my environment have to do with me and how do I influence it?

A picture of Lavkant Chaudhary's exhibit. In the background, children run through the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal.

We address these and similar questions in school and family workshops to accompany the exhibition "YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal" (16.09.2022 to 15.01.2023) in the Gropuis Bau. Together with students and families, we will embark on a journey around the themes of care, repair and healing. The journey includes an exploration of selected works in order to grasp the broad spectrum of themes in the exhibition and to illuminate individual positions.

A boy is blindly guided through the exhibition by another boy.

Together we explore the exhibition. Different artistic perspectives always bring up new questions that the participants approach with their own ideas of healing, soul, health and environment. With special methodological approaches, the artworks and their meanings become tangible for each individual and offer starting points for

an exchange. The questions that stood out in the school workshops are used to develop the family workshops.

The aim of the workshops is to give space to the often neglected confrontation with one's own feelings in the everyday life, to interrupt the "need to work" and to listen to one's inner self.

Children stand in front of Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton's artwork in the exhibition YOYI! Care, Repair, Heal.

A boy is blindly led past Eva Koťátková's work in the exhibition by another boy.

School Workshops

The students of the Rixdorfer Grundschule will take part in 2 workshops of 3 hours each. A warm-up in the atrium makes it possible to arrive and exchange feelings: Who am I and how do I feel today? Where am I and what does this place do to me? In relation to the theme of "kinship", we explore the extent in which the participants are connected to each other. Movement games, drawings and word collections introduce the themes of the exhibition. We then embark on a journey to selected works by Kader Attia, Ann Duk Hee, Eva Koťátková, PARI and others in order to work through the various aspects of the works in a child-friendly way and make them personally experienceable: Laying down, observing, describing, tapping into own experiences, marvelling. How do we relate to non-human organisms by Ann Duk Hee? Are prostheses like Kader Attia's a form of healing? What secret language do the symbols of Betty Muffler and Maringka Burton speak?

Several children stand in a circle and spread their arms out to either side.

The second workshop looks at body awareness, spatial awareness and environmental exploration through input from experts. Small groups explored their bodies and how to deal with silence and stillness in the space together with yoga teacher Gaelle Georges. Reflecting on one's own concerns and sensations offers space for new thoughts in the context of art and what is seen.

Two children stand in front of Betty Muffler & Maringka Burton's artwork holding their self-written letters.

A group sits in a circle in the atrium of the Gropius Bau.

Family Workshops

The themes developed in the school workshops were taken up and adapted for families and their children. From this, Ephra, together with Marie Parakenings, developed a "map of well-being" to outline the experiences of the visitors and thus make them visible. The journey begins with an exploration of the exhibition and individual, selected positions. The map provides a basis for discussing personal wishes, thoughts and feelings. Through different methods, we create a framework for experience and exchange based on the works presented in the exhibition.

Family Workshop Dates

Time period: 16.09.2022 bis 15.01.2023
Project management: Maxi Süß
Workshop management: Rebecca Raue, Malu Blume, Anna Königshofer
Expert: Gaelle Georges
Project partner: Gropius Bau
Photos: Laura Fiorio