Magic Moment

Based on the sophisticated collage techniques of Czech artist Jiří Kolář, you will experiment with a wide variety of paper types. How can old and new be combined? Printing techniques expand the workshop, as does the experience of continuing to work on the joint installation by twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler and threading pearl strings. This workshop invites participants to let art grow together. Stringing beads into chains and shapes, printing on paper, tearing it, layering it, combining it, or gluing it together with other papers to create collages—when booking, please choose one of the three focal points: beads, color printing, or paper collages. Everyone works together: ideas are started, passed on, taken up, and transformed. Traces remain visible, processes open. Those who wish can start something of their own, while others take it up, change it, add to it, or rethink it. In this way, a large work emerges from the collaboration—or several smaller ones that grow, change, and interact with each other. Art is created from many hands, thoughts, and moods—openly, playfully.

What does your children's room look like? What should be in a child's room? Let yourself be inspired by the following works in the exhibition: Gathering by Yoko Gwen Halbwidl—a large-scale installation made of felt and soap; Langer Atem (Long Breath) by Flora and Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll—a walk-in cloud made of parachute silk; Last Night VIII / Last Night XLII by Soshiro Matsubara – ceramic candelabras (chandeliers) and Pit und Peggs Traumreise (Pit and Pegg's Dream Journey) by Felix Nussbaum and Michael Loewen – a film that can be watched together while lying down. The workshop combines the tactile experiences of the installations with the narrative, dreamlike level of the film, thus creating a transition from feeling and speaking to creating something of your own. Which of the works would you incorporate into your own children's room – and why? Would these works of art be visible or well hidden in the room? After discussions and drawings, you can build your own models.

Based on the sophisticated collage techniques of Czech artist Jiří Kolář, you will experiment with a wide variety of paper types. How can old and new be combined? Printing techniques expand the workshop, as does the experience of continuing to work on the joint installation by twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler and threading pearl strings.

This workshop invites participants to let art grow together. Stringing beads into chains and shapes, printing on paper, tearing it, layering it, combining it, or gluing it together with other papers to create collages —when booking, please choose one of the three focal points: beads, color printing, or paper collages. Everyone works together: ideas are started, passed on, taken up, and transformed. Traces remain visible, processes open. Those who wish can start something of their own, while others take it up, change it, add to it, or rethink it. In this way, a large work emerges from the collaboration — or several smaller ones that grow, change, and interact with each other. Art is created from many hands, thoughts, and moods — openly, playfully.

What does your children's room look like? What should be in a children's room? Let yourself be inspired by the following works in the exhibition:

• Gathering by Yoko Gwen Halbwidl – a large-scale installation with felt and soap
• Langer Atem (Long Breath) by Flora and Martin Szurcsik-Nimmervoll – a walk-in cloud made of parachute silk
• Last Night VIII / Last Night XLII by Soshiro Matsubara – ceramic candelabras (chandeliers) 
• Pit und Peggs Traumreise (Pit and Pegg's Dream Journey) by Felix Nussbaum and Michael Loewen – a film that can be watched together while lying down

The workshop combines the tactile experiences of the installations with the narrative, dreamlike level of the film, thus creating a transition from feeling and speaking to creating something of your own.

Which of the works would you incorporate into your own children's room – and why? Would these works of art be visible or well hidden in the room? After discussions and drawings, you can build your own models.

Impulses of Brazilian Modernism 
What exactly is a performance? With impulses from Eduardo Clark's film The World of Lygia Clark, we reflect on artistic work in a group. What is still interesting today, and why? What can be tried out in a group? With objects and materials without predetermined uses for free exploration, the aim is to experience joint creative activity.

The starting point is Lygia Clark's ensemble of works Máscaras Sensoriais, presented in the exhibition, a milestone in art history, on display in Austria for the first time. The fabric masks are presented on six steles. The masks can only be put on as part of this workshop.

Lygia Clark's working methods provide poetic impulses: a table tennis ball that swings on an air-filled plastic bag; an object that develops its own rhythm through the movement of the hands; surfaces that feel, smell, or sound soft. Such material experiences strengthen early self-efficacy and sensory perception. Every action opens up new possibilities, in a group or alone.

Based on the sophisticated collage techniques of Czech artist Jiří Kolář, you will experiment with a wide variety of paper types. How can old and new be combined? Printing techniques expand the workshop, as does the experience of continuing to work on the joint installation by twin sisters Christine and Irene Hohenbüchler and threading pearl strings.

This workshop invites participants to let art grow together. Stringing beads into chains and shapes, printing on paper, tearing it, layering it, combining it, or gluing it to other papers to create collages—when booking, please choose one of the three focal points: beads, color printing, or paper collages. Everyone works together: ideas are started, passed on, taken up, and transformed. Traces remain visible, processes open. Those who wish can start something of their own, while others take it up, change it, add to it, or rethink it. In this way, a large work emerges from the collaboration—or several smaller ones that grow, change, and interact with each other. Art is created from many hands, thoughts, and moods—openly, playfully.

Based on Victoria Tomaschko's photo series in the stairwell, photographic group portraits are discussed. How does the interaction in the photo come across? Do the siblings like each other or do they argue? Do they feel comfortable? How would children and young people photograph each other?

In the next step, participants can try out their own photos. How is a joint portrait—a sibling portrait—created? What does it say about the relationship between the people depicted? In this workshop, children and young people explore together how identity, togetherness, and trust can be made visible in different ways. It is not just about faces as images. Rather, they explore how bodies can be staged in relation to each other in space. Using various drawing and photographic techniques, individual portraits are created that reveal group constellations and references to the participants' own lives.

This workshop is all about sound. Everyday noises, speech, melodies, voices—what sounds do you hear inside and around you? How can you make music together? And how can these sounds be combined to create a new piece? In this workshop, participants will compose and record their own pieces after initial listening experiences. The aim is to combine as many different elements as possible in new ways.

Inspiration is provided by the works of Andreas [LUPO] Lubich, Hodel / Schumacher / Clavadetscher, and Heiko Bressnik and Uwe Bressnik, who worked with collage, exchange, transmission, and material transformation. The result is a network of ideas—one large collaborative work or many small ones that relate to each other. The focus is not on a finished end product, but on experiencing an artistic and social process: trying things out, inspiring each other, or continuing to work on the contributions of others. Using found and self-produced sounds, creative sound montages are created that show how diverse and playful composing can be.

90 minutes—10 euros per child
120 minutes—12 euros per child
Two accompanying participants free of charge and mandatory

Any additional accompanying persons pay the regular entrance fee of 4.00 euros per person

Groups of fewer than ten participants must pay the fee for ten participants.
We kindly ask that at least one accompanying adult also attends.
Please include younger siblings in the number of participants.
Children should please bring drinking bottles and wear clothes that can get dirty.

Included in the price

• Guided tour by an art educator during the booked event
• Engaging tour of the current exhibition
• Selected artistic workshop presented in the lab or the library
• High-quality materials
• Admission covers participants and two accompanying adults
• Opportunity to explore all areas of the venue independently before or after the educational offering
• Optional: a timeslot to experience Toshi’s Gift (only available for 120-minute sessions, weather permitting and subject to availability)

Catering can be arranged directly with the Das Altoona bistro, which is located in our building. If you wish to bring your own birthday cake, it can be enjoyed at the Altoona for a small fee. For detailed information and to reserve a table, please contact the Altoona team.

E-Mail: museumnoe@edison.at
Tel.: 0043 664 995 25 908 

Bookings can be cancelled free of charge up to three days prior the booked date. If cancelled two days prior to the booked date, the cancellation fee is 50% of the total amount. Cancellations on the day of the booked date are not possible and NÖ Kulturlandeshauptstadt St.Pölten GmbH must charge a cancellation fee of 100% of the total amount.