The Kreuzberg Art Workshop has existed since 1993 with a changing lineup at various locations. It emerged from an initiative by the staff of the assisted living program of Lebenshilfe Berlin. Its clients are classified as mentally disabled. This umbrella term quickly proves to be completely inadequate to describe their personalities. It is often unclear who actually disables whom.
Image gallery
Christina Heske
David Permantier
Gemeinschaftsarbeit Kunstwerkstatt Kreuzberg
Wolfgang Fassott
Outsider art, art brut, naive art – there are many labels for what we do. Our clients are amateurs in the purest and truest sense of the word. It is a hobby, not a profession, nor a vocation. We provide opportunities for self-expression, but we also accept chance and the unintentional as a creative principle. The essence is creative activity, detachment from everyday life, but also from representational elements.
As a group interested in art and culture, they want to explore the social space of the museum and hope that their involvement in the city's various museums represents a step in this direction. At Sternschuppen, they are showing a selection of works: palette knife works on paper, monotypes, prints, and drawings. Representational works alongside forms and colors.
