Langer Tag der Stadtnatur: Workshop zu Tierarchitekturen

In the organizer's words:

For the exhibition "Hidden Realities" (16.3. - 15.6.2025) at Spreepark Art Space, the artists from Animal Architecture Collective looked around the animal world and discovered that ants, bees, birds and small mammals also weave, make pottery, build walls and sew. In fact, they did all this first, we humans just imitated them. After a tour of the exhibition, let's take a look at their architectural forms together - what can we learn from them?

Get to know the animal architects and become a master builder yourself: Imagine you were a non-human animal - what would you build? Various materials are available for your animal construction. You are also welcome to bring your own materials from nature (sticks, moss, dried plants, etc.). Please be considerate of nature when collecting.

Merle Richter is an artist and art teacher. Through close observation and intensive reflection, she investigates moments of entanglement between living beings that arise in her immediate surroundings. Her practice is characterized by conceptual, research-based and performative approaches as well as working with and through various materials, which she understands as a collaborative process. Her pedagogical work and experimental teaching practice aims to stimulate dialog and discourse and to explore the question of how "material" and installations with "material" can contribute to initiating processes of aesthetic self-education.

The workshop is part of the program of the Long Day of Urban Nature.

Participation is only possible with registration via the following link: https://www.langertagderstadtnatur.de/angebote/details/8177

Entry is possible at any time until 15:45.

Languages: German and English

Location: Spreepark Art Space (dance hall), Eierhäuschen im Spreepark, Kiehnwerder Allee 2, 12437 Berlin.

Access is barrier-free.

Price information:

Adults € 4 / adults reduced* and young people aged 14 and over € 2 / children under 14 € 0