Photo: Hertta Nilsson
Open workshops for grown-ups and children
Learn about contemporary art through hands-on activities!
Saturdays 9 February – 27 April from 1–4 pm | With museum ticket
A new theme and a new medium every week. The workshops are suitable for all ages from 3 years up; under 10-year-olds only with an adult. Come alone or with others – no previous experience or advance registration is necessary.
February
9 February Say What You Will
Introduce comments or ideas to the cityscape by printing figures and speech balloons on a canvas bag! Use readymade stencils or create a figure of your own.
16 February Self-Portrait
Create a self-portrait with collage technique. You can use a copy machine, press clippings, coloured paper and felt-tip pens.
23 February Archived Emotions
Are you happy, sad, excited or maybe angry? Find the right pattern and colour to match your state of mind. Create a small work of art using the press-print process.
March
2 March Wall Conversations
Have a discussion with other workshop participants on a big shared sheet of paper by drawing and writing with marker pens.
9 March Kiasma & Families Day
At the Family Day Workshop children make drawings together with their parents. Join in the fun!
16 March Busy City
The city in spring is full of poems and rhymes. Draw your own city in charcoal on a big paper, experiment boldly with different techniques.
23 March Night Landscape
Create a series of 2–3 watercolours with the help of small assemblages of objects and fabrics that depict nocturnal landscapes.
30 March Easter Holiday – no workshop!
April
6 April Inking Ideas
Capture your best ideas and greatest sentences in an ink painting. Spreading out, moving and expanding, the relaxed medium of liquid gives room for experimentation and surprises.
13 April Lost Ideas Are Best Ideas
Get crazy with marker pens! Explore the limitless possibilities of felt-tip art. Lose figures in words, camouflage words in patterns.
20 April Spaces for Stories
Use a slide projector and overhead projector to create a space for stories. Explore storytelling by painting on transparent sheets with marker pens and ink.
27 April Me and My Landscape
Make your mindscape visible on a slide that is then projected on the workshop wall. Step into the picture and have your photo taken. If you can, bring your own memory stick or camera.