My understanding of the visual arts is closely linked to experimentation, discovery, lifelong learning, context, teamwork and joy.
That is why I have the need to combine the production of art projects made by myself with collaborative projects where participation, mutual learning and knowledge sharing are the basis for their development.
In these projects I take part as an art-maker, social designer, art director, cultural manager or mediator, working together with other artists, creative labs, local projects and social initiatives.
Do it yourself / Do it together
Portfolio LAB
I have worked with:
FLOATING University
THIKWA Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst
THEATER THIKWA e.V
HAUS BASTIAN-Center for Cultural Education
STAATLICHE MUSSEN zu Berlin
S27 (Schlesische27)
Berlin MONDIALE
INARTDis Project
ERASMUS +
CULTURE MOVES EUROPE
BENN Britz
ARCHIPEL e.V
Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg
Theater an der PARKAUE
FREIRAUMLABOR e.V
KUKO-Kollectiv für Kulturökologie
GLOGAU.AIR Artists in Residence
ExMe - Theater Expedition Metropolis
Galerie ART CRU Berlin
AI WEIWEI Studio
KÖNIG Gallery
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
TERRE DES FEMMES
Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln e.V
YOUNG ARTS Neukölln
YOUNG ARTS Diversity
Galerie 100 KUBIK
KULTURMÜHLE PERWENITZ e.V
Galerie BARBARA THUMM
INSTITUTO CERVANTES
PEDAGOGÍAS INVISIBLES (Amanda ROBLEDO)
MINI QUEER Zinefest
Kreative Werkstatt LOBETAL
Galerie aNdereRSeitS
Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft NBW
Asociación BERBIQUÍ
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AND MANY MORE
THIKWA WERKSTATT FÜR THEATER UND KUNST
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Art direction, cultural management, art mediation.
2012 - 2022
In addition to social and cultural projects in which I am involved as a freelance artist, cultural manager and mediator, I work also as an art director at the visual arts workshop of THIKWA Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst since 2012.
My functions at Thikwa range from the frequent realisation of workshops and visual arts projects, the management of the workshop, the promotion and curatorship of 44 artists and their works in exhibitions, awards, ... as well as the mediation with all kinds of cultural actors who are interested in the workshop and its artists.
2012 - 2022
In addition to social and cultural projects in which I am involved as a freelance artist, cultural manager and mediator, I work also as an art director at the visual arts workshop of THIKWA Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst since 2012.
My functions at Thikwa range from the frequent realisation of workshops and visual arts projects, the management of the workshop, the promotion and curatorship of 44 artists and their works in exhibitions, awards, ... as well as the mediation with all kinds of cultural actors who are interested in the workshop and its artists.
If you want to know more about the projects and workshops I have developed at Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst visit their website
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Organiser, cultural manager, mediator
ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2024
Artist residencies are a key factor in the lives of artists today. They influence their personal experiences and the development of their work and create networks and relationships with other cultural actors outside their comfort zone. However, artists with disabilities have fewer opportunities to participate in such events, as they usually have special needs and require more personal, logistical and financial support.
For this reason, Álvaro Martínez Alonso and Anne Christine Plate, together with Marieta Campos Gisbert, created OUTSIDER ARTISTS SHOULD NOT BE LEFT OUTSIDE (Artists in Residence), a residency program for Berlin-based artists with intellectual disabilities that took place in Alcudia, Mallorca, in September 2024.
This work is produced with the financial assistance of the European Union and it is implemented by the Goethe Institut.
Alcudia, Mallorca / Spain
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BASIC LAB
Invited artist, mediator
WORKSHOP
2024
5 weeks workshop for 12 participants within the Basic-Lab programme of Bildungsmanufaktur, at S27.
Basic Lab is a workshop for exciting experiments and basics in design, arts and crafts. Inspired by the famous Bauhaus pre-course, it offers a colourful range of materials and techniques, from wood and metal to weaving and printing.
S27 (Schlesische27)
Berlin, Germany
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KIEZSCHÄTZE
Cultural mediator, artist
CULTURAL MEDIATION PROJECT
2024
We are a group of blind and sighted artists. During the Easter vacations, we are offering an inclusive art project in Kreuzberg, Tempelhof and Neukölln.
Through various artistic media such as audio, video and drawing, we can visualize, set to music, sketch, model and share memories. Which place in Berlin do you associate with a special experience? Would you like to show it to us? How can we immerse ourselves in your memories there together?
Commissioned by: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Funded by: Berliner Projektfonds, Young Arts Diversity, Nbw, Polyrama Museum, Pumpe, Project made together with: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Participants: non-sighted and sighted young people
THIKWA Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst
Young Arts Dammweg - Diversity
Berlin
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MULTIMADEIRA / AiR
Invited artist
ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2024
For two weeks I participated in Multimadeira, a temporary residency for artists in Madeira (Portugal). During this time I started a project that captures natural environments not only through sound, still and moving images but also through other abstract, technical and scientific parameters such as temperature, altitude, wind speed and direction, humidity and pressure, related to less frequent sensorial characteristics in the representation and perception of our environment through art.
Multimadeira / Artist in Residence Program
Madeira, Portugal
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CAN SERRAT / AiR
Cultural mediator, artist
CULTURAL MEDIATION PROJECT & ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2024
During 21 days blind artist Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck, Charlotte Kachelmann and myself will work on the concept of memories through different disciplines and artistic formats in Can Serrat, an art residency at Can Serrat, in the mountains of Montserrat, Barcelona. This will be the preparatory phase for a subsequent art mediation project that will take place in April 2024 in Berlin with the participation of teenagers.
Commissioned by: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Funded by: European Union (Creativ Europe) Project made together with: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann
CAN SERRAT / Artist in Residence Program
El Bruc, Barcelona
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RETOLD – NACH:ERZÄHLT
Art direction & mediationSET-DESIGN
2023
Artistic mediation project through which artists with disabilities from Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft create illustrations that, printed in large format, will be part of the scenography used by Theater Thikwa at Alexander Platz, Berlin, during its performances at the Special Olympics World Games 2023.
Commissioned by: Theater Thikwa e.V Project made together with: Rudina Bejtuli, Felix Brünig, Tobias Brunwinkel, Atalay Dogan, Robert Janning, Konstantin Langenick, Anne-Sophie Mosch, Tim Petersen, Oliver Rincke, Rachel Rosen, Mereika Schulz
SPECIAL OLYMPICS WORLD GAMES BERLIN 2023
Alexanderplatz, Berlin
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SPREE ~ CHANNELSEAInvited artist
ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2023
Between September 7 and 14th, Radio Otherwise / Archipel Stations are together with Soundcamp on a house boat that became a transient Radio studio.
Many special guests joined the numerous events and working sessions open to the general public.
In my case, I participated on September 8 with an artist talk.
Commissioned by: Archipel e.V Funded by: Cultural Bridge Program from the British Arts Council and Fonds Soziokultur
Berlin Waterways
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URLAUB AUF BETONIEN
Floating IslandsCultural mediator, artist
PARTICIPATORY ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2023
Waves of concrete invade the city and in summer not everyone can escape. We don´t need Mallorca or Sardinia. We found another Island in the city but we need a raft to arrive there.
As part of the “Nature Culture Strategies” program, Thikwa artists and Kreuzberg neighbours are invited to build their own wooden raft with which they will arrive at Floating Island, an oasis of commoning in a rainwater retention lake in the city of Berlin.
FLOATING UNIVERSITY
Berlin
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INKLUSIVE GRÜNE KULTURRÄUME
Art direction & art mediation
SITE-SPECIFIC SEMINAR
2022
The European INARTdis project "Promoting social inclusion for all through arts education: developing support for students with disabilities" aims to promote social inclusion through arts education in participatory cultural spaces.
The seminar concludes with an official certificate recognised by CERSIN (Centre for Studies and Research for an Inclusive Society) of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
INARTdis is an inclusive art education project: artists with handicaps are trained as cultural mediators. Together with other artists, they form a diverse team that invites people to inclusive and sustainable art experiences through creative workshops and joint actions.
Commissioned by: INARTdis and Cersin (Autonomous University of Barcelona) In cooperation with: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft and Young Arts Neukölln Funded by: Erasmus+ Project made together with: 8 artists with disabilities, Charlotte Kachelmann, Verena Liebel, Fritjof Mangerich, Amanda Robledo and Antonia Venter Participants: Educators and art mediators from Berlin
YOUNG ARTS Dammweg and
YOUNG ARTS Gropiusstadt. Berlin
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WHAT COLOUR IS THE FLOATINGCultural mediator, artist
SITE-SPECIFIC PROJECT
2022
Is the Schwarzwald (Black Forest) really black, the Roter Berg (Red Mountain) in Vienna red and the Blaue See (Blue Lake) in Heidensee blue? What do the colors of the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) in Berlin, the blue houses in Chefchaouen in Morocco or La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall) of Calpe in Spain symbolize?
Color is a fundamental aspect of the representation of a place and influences the people who inhabit or visit it. Sometimes color is even used consciously and symbolically in urban spaces and sometimes it is given by the characteristics of the environment in natural spaces.
We ask ourselves: what is the color of Floating
As part of the "One Day Artists in Residence" program, Thikwa artists will use photographs to represent the color of Floating
In 6 hours we made 100 photographs at Floating University, printed them and classified them by colors. We made a color wheel with all of them and exhibited it during the Autumn Neighbourhood Weekend.
Commissioned by: Floating
FLOATING UNIVERSITY
Berlin
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ARTOTHEK
Cultural management
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT
2022
Design, creation, management and curatorship of the Thikwa Werkstatt Artothek, a project to mediate between the public and the artists with disabilities from Thikwa Werkstatt, to promote and spread their work.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst and Theater Thikwa e.V Project made together with: Susann Weisshaar
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Cultural management
CULTURAL MANAGEMENT PROJECT
2022
Design, creation, management and curatorship of the Thikwa Werkstatt Artothek, a project to mediate between the public and the artists with disabilities from Thikwa Werkstatt, to promote and spread their work.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst and Theater Thikwa e.V Project made together with: Susann Weisshaar
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KOMPOST-HORROR
Cultural mediation, art director
SET-DESIGN
2022
Mediation with 4 artists with disabilities and Theater an der Parkaue for the realization of the scenography for KOMPOST-HORROR, a theatrical piece for children and young audiences.
Commissioned by: Theater and der Parkaue Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin Project made together with: Thikwa Werkstatt: Louis Edler, Andrè Nittel, Tim Petersen, Pierre Spiegelberg, Susan Weishaar and Samy Serag
THEATER AN DER PARKAUE
Berlin
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SET-DESIGN
2022
Mediation with 4 artists with disabilities and Theater an der Parkaue for the realization of the scenography for KOMPOST-HORROR, a theatrical piece for children and young audiences.
Commissioned by: Theater and der Parkaue Funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Berlin Project made together with: Thikwa Werkstatt: Louis Edler, Andrè Nittel, Tim Petersen, Pierre Spiegelberg, Susan Weishaar and Samy Serag
THEATER AN DER PARKAUE
Berlin
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KIEZKLÄNGE
Cultural mediator, artist
ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2023
Together with a group of non-sighted and sighted young people, we embark on a collaborative, artistic exploration of an urban area to produce life stories in the form of audio-cassette tracks. By focusing on the perceptual levels of hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling, we follow traces in an environment to find and record life stories.
Commissioned by: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Funded by: Durchstarten - Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildun Project made together with: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Participants: non-sighted and sighted young people
POLYRAMA MUSEUM
Berlin
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ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2023
Together with a group of non-sighted and sighted young people, we embark on a collaborative, artistic exploration of an urban area to produce life stories in the form of audio-cassette tracks. By focusing on the perceptual levels of hearing, smelling, tasting and feeling, we follow traces in an environment to find and record life stories.
Commissioned by: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Funded by: Durchstarten - Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildun Project made together with: Silja Korn, Charlotte Seebeck and Charlotte Kachelmann Participants: non-sighted and sighted young people
POLYRAMA MUSEUM
Berlin
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VR UND 360° FOTOGRAFIE
Concept design, workshop direction
WORKSHOP
2022
360° photography workshop made with smartphones and use of their applications in Virtual Reality and digital mapping for artists with disabilities.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst
and Theater Thikwa e.V
Participants: Ismail Arslantürk, Tobias Brunwinkel, Max Freitag, Sammy Serag, Konstantin Langenick und Frank Schulz.
THIKWA WERKSTATT für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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READY, STEADY, GO: Museen inklusiv!
Cultural mediator, artist
WORKSHOP & ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2022
Mediation of a one-week cyanotype workshop by artists with disabilities.
The occasion is the Special Olympics World Games, which will take place in Berlin in 2023. Athletes, museum visitors and actors from Berlin and all over the world will meet for a cultural program on the Museum Island. We will celebrate the start of the project with our multi-day event "Explore Museum Island! Leave traces! First test run on Museum Island". Parallel to the National Games in Berlin, all visitors with and without disabilities are invited to explore the museums together and become artistically active.
Commission by: Haus Bastian. State Museums Berlin In cooperation with: INARTdis and Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft Funded by: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Fabian Bischoff, Deniz Dogan, Charlotte Kachelmann, Vasylysa Shchogoleva and Antonia Venter Participants: 12 People
HAUS BASTIAN
Museums Island. Berlin
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SET-DESIGN
2022
Set design project with photographs taken by Peter Brutschin in the workshops of Theater Thikwa and printed in large format to be part of the set design used by Theater Thikwa at Alexander Platz, Berlin, during their performances at the Special Olympics 2022 World Games.
Commissioned by: Theater Thikwa e.V Project made together with: Peter Brutschin
SPECIAL OLYMPICS 2022 Alexanderplatz, Berlin
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Concept design, workshop direction
WORKSHOP
2022
360° photography workshop made with smartphones and use of their applications in Virtual Reality and digital mapping for artists with disabilities.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst
and Theater Thikwa e.V
Participants: Ismail Arslantürk, Tobias Brunwinkel, Max Freitag, Sammy Serag, Konstantin Langenick und Frank Schulz.
THIKWA WERKSTATT für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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READY, STEADY, GO: Museen inklusiv!
Cultural mediator, artist
WORKSHOP & ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE
2022
Mediation of a one-week cyanotype workshop by artists with disabilities.
The occasion is the Special Olympics World Games, which will take place in Berlin in 2023. Athletes, museum visitors and actors from Berlin and all over the world will meet for a cultural program on the Museum Island. We will celebrate the start of the project with our multi-day event "Explore Museum Island! Leave traces! First test run on Museum Island". Parallel to the National Games in Berlin, all visitors with and without disabilities are invited to explore the museums together and become artistically active.
Commission by: Haus Bastian. State Museums Berlin In cooperation with: INARTdis and Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft Funded by: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Fabian Bischoff, Deniz Dogan, Charlotte Kachelmann, Vasylysa Shchogoleva and Antonia Venter Participants: 12 People
HAUS BASTIAN
Museums Island. Berlin
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RETOLD – NACH:ERZÄHLT
Cultural mediator, artistSET-DESIGN
2022
Set design project with photographs taken by Peter Brutschin in the workshops of Theater Thikwa and printed in large format to be part of the set design used by Theater Thikwa at Alexander Platz, Berlin, during their performances at the Special Olympics 2022 World Games.
Commissioned by: Theater Thikwa e.V Project made together with: Peter Brutschin
SPECIAL OLYMPICS 2022 Alexanderplatz, Berlin
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AIRe / Madrid
AIRe / Madrid
Cultural mediation & cultural managment
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023
In 2023 I organized AIRe (Artist In Residence: españa) in Madrid and I invited Torsten Holzapfel, one of the artists of Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst.
AIRe was a pilot project whose main objective was to put an art residence for artists with disabilities into practice and to obtain the necessary support to facilitate more residency periods like this for other artists like Torsten.
During that trip Torsten visited in Madrid important places for his inspiration and artistic production but also for his life experience and personal enjoyment such as the Madrid subway lines or the Railroad Museum, the major museums in Madrid such as Reina Sofia, TBA21 or Prado and the beautiful Retiro Park or the old streets of the city. Torsten also met new friends, artists and representatives of cultural initiatives in Madrid such as Goethe Institut or Debajo del Sombrero among others.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso Funded by: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft ggmbh
With the support of: Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst and the participation of: Torsten Holzapfel
MADRID
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ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
2023
In 2023 I organized AIRe (Artist In Residence: españa) in Madrid and I invited Torsten Holzapfel, one of the artists of Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst.
AIRe was a pilot project whose main objective was to put an art residence for artists with disabilities into practice and to obtain the necessary support to facilitate more residency periods like this for other artists like Torsten.
During that trip Torsten visited in Madrid important places for his inspiration and artistic production but also for his life experience and personal enjoyment such as the Madrid subway lines or the Railroad Museum, the major museums in Madrid such as Reina Sofia, TBA21 or Prado and the beautiful Retiro Park or the old streets of the city. Torsten also met new friends, artists and representatives of cultural initiatives in Madrid such as Goethe Institut or Debajo del Sombrero among others.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso Funded by: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft ggmbh
With the support of: Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst and the participation of: Torsten Holzapfel
MADRID
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TURNING POINT - VERLORENORTE
Art mediation
SET-DESIGN
2022
SET-DESIGN
2022
Turning Points - Verloren Orte is a workshop for young creative people aged 12-16: Writers, performers and creators of innovative art. Together we focus on lost stories. We will build an interactive theatre object to tell about our lost places. A revolutionary and performative presentation will be performed in front of an audience at the end.
Commissioned by: Gabriela Ortiz In cooperation with: Expedition Metropolis e.V. Funded by: Jugend- und Familienstiftung des Landes Berlin Project made together with: Gabriela Ortiz and Carlos Morelli Participants: 8 young people aged 12-16
Theater Expedition Metropolis e.V. Berlin
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Commissioned by: Gabriela Ortiz In cooperation with: Expedition Metropolis e.V. Funded by: Jugend- und Familienstiftung des Landes Berlin Project made together with: Gabriela Ortiz and Carlos Morelli Participants: 8 young people aged 12-16
Theater Expedition Metropolis e.V. Berlin
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TUFTING GUN
Art Direction
WORKSHOP & PROJECT
2022
Learning workshop on the use and possibilities of tufting gun for the realization of wall carpets or tapestries from an artistic and experimental perspective.
Participants: Deniz Dogan, Oliver Rincke and Hannah Grzimek
THIKWA WERKSTATT für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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WORKSHOP & PROJECT
2022
Learning workshop on the use and possibilities of tufting gun for the realization of wall carpets or tapestries from an artistic and experimental perspective.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst and Theater Thikwa e.V
Participants: Deniz Dogan, Oliver Rincke and Hannah Grzimek
THIKWA WERKSTATT für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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KERAMIK
UND NATUR
Art direction & mediation
SITE-SPECIFIC WORKSHOP
2021
Ceramics and their use in urban gardens for residents in the neighbourhood of Neukölln, in Berlin
Commissioned by: Berlin Mondiale In cooperation with: Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln Funded by: Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Project made together with: Andrea Caro Participants: Residents of the Neukölln neighbourhood in Berlin
KULTURNETZWERK NEUKÖLLN Nachbarschaftscampus Dammweg 216. Berlin
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UND NATUR
Art direction & mediation
SITE-SPECIFIC WORKSHOP
2021
Ceramics and their use in urban gardens for residents in the neighbourhood of Neukölln, in Berlin
Commissioned by: Berlin Mondiale In cooperation with: Kulturnetzwerk Neukölln Funded by: Berlin Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa Project made together with: Andrea Caro Participants: Residents of the Neukölln neighbourhood in Berlin
KULTURNETZWERK NEUKÖLLN Nachbarschaftscampus Dammweg 216. Berlin
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SUBJEKTIVEN KARTOGRAPHIE
Concept design, mediation and art direction
SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT AND EXHIBITION
2021
Rethinking and mapping urban space through the use of digital tools (Video, photo, audio-documentation, texts) by students of the Fritz-Karsen-Schule
A multi-perspective exploration of the intermediately used area of the former school garden of the Carl-Legien-Oberschule on Dammweg in Neukölln.
How do we want to use green spaces in Berlin? How do we deal with open space? What stories are hidden at the site and how do we want to document, record and visualise them?
Commissioned by: FREIRAUMLABOR GbR Cooperates: Berlin Mondiale, Fritz-Karsen-Schul funded by: Senatsverwaltung für Bildung, Jugend und Familie Project made together with: Verena Liebel Participants: 15 pupils of the Fritz-Karsen-Schule
Nachbarschaftscampus Dammweg. Berlin
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NACHBARN*INNEN DER ZUKUNFT
Art mediation, set design direction
ART & THEATER PROJECT
2019
Have you thought about what our future will look like? Have you thought about what our world will be? Let's find creative ideas together on how we can preserve & shape our world. & shape our world. In building figures and in scenic play exercises, we discover our creativity and reflect on different creativity and reflect on different values of life. We become the neighbours of the future!
Commissioned by: Gabriela Ortiz In cooperation with: Expedition Metropolis e.V. Funded by: Stiftung Chancen und Bildung für Kinder Erika Thomas Project made together with: Gabriela Ortiz Participants: 8 young people aged 12-16
Theater Expedition Metropolis e.V. Berlin
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OUTSIDER ARTISTS
SHOULD NOT BE
LEFT OUTSIDE
Mediation and art direction, curatorship
WORKSHOP, SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT IN PUBLIC SPACE AND EXHIBITION
2021
After being commissioned by Haus Bastian (State Museums of Berlin) to conduct an inclusive art workshop for artists with disabilities, I decided together with the participating artists to use this opportunity to conduct an activist workshop:
After a screen-printing workshop, the participant artists made their own posters with images of their artworks and the message: OUTSIDER ARTISTS SHOULD NOT BE LEFT OUTSIDE, which they stuck up in the open air streets near the Museum Island of Berlin, calling for a space for artists with disabilities in State Museums of Berlin.
A visit organised with a Team of State Museums of Berlin was "guided", following this map, to take a walk through the places where, in an open-air exhibition and without an official permission, their posters were shown.
Commissioned by: INARTdis and Haus Bastian – Centre for Cultural Education of Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Funded by: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Preußischer Kulturbesitz Cooperates: Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Amanda Robledo and Antonia Venter Participants: Addas Ahmad, Heidi Bruck, Torsten Holzapfel, Peter Pankow and Tim Petersen
Haus Bastian and
Museums Island. Berlin
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PFLANZENGEOGRAPHIE
AN DER FLOATING
Art mediation and art direction
WORKSHOP AND SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT
2021
After a botanical safari we worked as a group on the creation of a catalogue with the flora from the environment of the Floating University. For this purpose, 4 artists with and without disabilities gave a cyanotype workshop, an environmentally friendly photographic development technique, for residents of Berlin's Kreuzberg neighbourhood in the framework of the Nachbarschaftswochenende (Neighbourhood Weekend) Commissioned by: Floating University e.V. Funded by: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft Project made together with: Sammy Serag, Moritz Welz and Silke Stuck Participants: 15 residents of the Kreuzberg neighbourhood
Nachbarschaftswochenende 2021
FloatingUniversity. Berlin
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MINI
QUEER
ZINEFEST
Art mediation and art direction
WORKSHOP
2015
Workshop on manipulation of photographs on slide film by artists with intellectual disabilities in the framework of a queer art festival.
Commissioned by: AStA Alice Salomon Hochschule
In cooperation with: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft
Funded by: AStA Alice Salomon Hochschule Project made together with: Marieta Campos-Gisbert Participants: Mini Queer Zinefest participants and Sabrina Braemer, Torsten Holzapfel, Katharina Maasberg, Angela Müller, Martina Nitz, Moritz Welz and Christian Wollert
Mini Queer Zinefest Berlin II. Berlin
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ZAUNGÄSTE
Mediation, management, art direction & curatorship
SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT, EXHIBITION & ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2020
Art residency, workshops and exhibition at Kulturmühle Perwenitz for Berlin artists with disabilities and collaboration in art projects with established artists from the Havel region, Brandenburg.
Commissioned by: Kulturmühle Perwenitz e.V. In cooperation with: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft and Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst Funded by: Landkreis Havelland, Kultur Stiftung Havelland
Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Marieta Campos-Gisbert, Antonia Venter, Gudrun Venter and Valentin Venter Participants: Debrecina Arega, Fabian Bischoff, Marieta Campos-Gisbert, Jürgen Hägele, Jana Haas, Torsten Holzapfel, Jasmin Lutze, Álvaro Martínez-Alonso, Aylin Mokahal, Peter Pankow, Eva Paul, Oliver Rincke, Klaus Schweier, Antonia Venter, Gudrun Venter and Valentin Venter
Kulturmühle Perwenitz. Brandenburg. Germany
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Mediation, management, art direction & curatorship
SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT, EXHIBITION & ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2020
Art residency, workshops and exhibition at Kulturmühle Perwenitz for Berlin artists with disabilities and collaboration in art projects with established artists from the Havel region, Brandenburg.
Commissioned by: Kulturmühle Perwenitz e.V. In cooperation with: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft and Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst Funded by: Landkreis Havelland, Kultur Stiftung Havelland
Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Marieta Campos-Gisbert, Antonia Venter, Gudrun Venter and Valentin Venter Participants: Debrecina Arega, Fabian Bischoff, Marieta Campos-Gisbert, Jürgen Hägele, Jana Haas, Torsten Holzapfel, Jasmin Lutze, Álvaro Martínez-Alonso, Aylin Mokahal, Peter Pankow, Eva Paul, Oliver Rincke, Klaus Schweier, Antonia Venter, Gudrun Venter and Valentin Venter
Kulturmühle Perwenitz. Brandenburg. Germany
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Mediation, management, art direction & curatorship
SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT, EXHIBITION & ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2019
Art residency, workshops and exhibition (Galerie aNdereRSeitS and Kunstwerk Blisse) for Berlin artists with disabilities.
In 2019, Thikwa artists were invited by the Creative Workshop in Lobetal for a one-week art residency. The workshop is located on a lake and surrounded by forest. The 16 artists from Lobetal and Thikwa took this as an opportunity to develop land art projects together.
Commissioned by: Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst In cooperation with: Galerie aNdereRSeitS, Kunstwerk Blisse and the Nordberlin
er Werkgemeinschaft funded by: Hoffnung Stiftung Lobetal Project made together with: Susanne Bachmann, Ana Fernández Furelos and Susan Päthke
Participants: Addas Ahmad, Fabian Bischoff, Ana Fernández Furelos, Daniel Koch, Günther Krug, Frank Krüger, Jasmin Lutze, Álvaro Martínez-Alonso, Marcel Matz, Susan Päthke, Rachel Rosen, Frank Schulz, Antonia Venter, Detlev von Dossow and Moritz Welz
Kreative Werkstatt Lobetal. Brandenburg. Germany
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ART AS A LANGUAGE
Mediation, direction & curatorship
ART PROJECT, EXHIBITION & ARTISTS RESIDENCY
2016
Art residency, workshops and exhibition (Museum of Human Evolution) for Berlin artists with disabilities and collaboration in art projects with artists from Burgos and students of the Art School of Burgos.
Commissioned by: Berbiquí Association
In cooperation with: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft, School of Art and Design of Burgos (EASDB).
Funded by: INJUVE, Erasmus+ and the Museum of Human Evolution
Project made together with: Marieta Campos Gisbert, Lorena Saez and Inés Santamaría Participants: Fabian Bischoff, Felix Brünig, Tobias Brunwinkel, Nils Kristian Gruner, Jasmin Lutze, Paula Moré, Rachel Rosen, Christian Wollert and artists of the Berbiquí Association.
Different locations in Burgos. Spain
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DER WANDTEPPICH
Art nediation & art direction
ART PROJECT
2019
In 2019, eleven artists with and without disabilities worked together on a project to make a tapestry using different textile techniques such as macramé, embroidery, patchwork, hand weaving and needle stitch.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst und Theater Thikwa e.V
Participants: Rudina Bejtuli, Jonny Chambilla, Hannah Grzimek, Robert Janning, Alexander Lange, Jasmin Lutze, Vincent Martinez, Álvaro Martínez-Alonso, Laura Rammo, Mereika Schulz und Moritz Welz
Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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URBAN INTERVENTION FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
URBAN INTERVENTION FOR SOCIAL INCLUSIONInvited artist
CULTURAL WORKERS IN RESIDENCE
2014
The project brings together participants from 7 European countries and engages them in a seminar where they learn how urban interventions can be used to build and sustain social cohesion and self-development.
Participants came from organizations like NGOs, community centres, youth clubs, etc. Through their participation in the seminar, they discover and learn different forms of street art/urban intervention and put them into practice. Within an atmosphere of creative, experimental discovery participants learnt various practices like i.e. poster or graffiti art and invisible theatre.
The goal of the project was to provide participants with the necessary skills and competencies to promote the inclusion of young people in their local communities through the methods and tools provided by the practice of urban intervention and social performance
Commissioned by: Die Bäckerei Kulturbackstube Funded by: Erasmus+, Jugend in Aktion Invited together with: Marieta Campos Gisbert Partners:
A.R.T. FUSION (Bucharest, Romania)
CEMEA del Mezzogiorno (Rome, Italy)
CENTROS DE FORMACION MUSICAL TRISTÁN (Almería, Spain) KOMUNITNEHO ORGANIZOVANIA (Banska Bystrica, Slovakia)
DIE BÄCKEREI – Kulturbackstube (Innsbruck, Austria)
FLA-KULTUR (Toulouse, France) THIKWA Werkstatt(Berlin, Germany)
Die Bäckerei-Kulturbackstube. Innsbruck. Austria
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CORRESPONDENCE
Art mediation & art direction
ART PROJECT
2018
In “Correspondence”, two artists with common motivations sent each other postcards they had designed themselves. This way, Torsten Holzapfel, from Berlin, and Fabrice Clapiès, from Bordeaux, begin a friendly relationship, although they had never met.
Commissioned by: Lorraine Rabiller In cooperation with: Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst Funded by: Nordberliner Werkgemeinschaft Participants: Torsten Holzapfel and Fabrice Clapiès
Berlin (Germany) and Bordeaux (France)
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Art mediation & art direction
SITE-SPECIFIC ART PROJECT
2016
Graphic art project between artists
with disabilities and pupils of Galilei-Grundschule and Joan Miró Grundschule.
Commissioned by Pedagogias Invisibles (Amanda Robledo)In cooperation with: Galilei-Grundschule, Joan Miró Grundschule and NbW Funded by: Instituto Cervantes
Project made together with:
Marieta Campos Gisbert and Amanda Robledo Participants: Torsten Holzapfel, Felix Brünig, Rachel Rosen, Peter Pankow, Martina Nitz, Jonny Chambilla, Paula Moré, Nils Kristian Gruner and students of the Galilei Grundschule and Joan-Miró GrundschuleInstituto Cervantes. Berlin
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CIRCUIT BENDINGArt Direction
WORKSHOP
2019
After a successful workshop for artists with disabilities about circuit bending, some of the participants decided to build their own instruments with papier-mâché and electronic components, such as a synthesizer and a theremin.
Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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If you are interested in working together or you want to know more about other projects I have been involved with, please do not hesitate to write me.
WORKSHOP
2019
After a successful workshop for artists with disabilities about circuit bending, some of the participants decided to build their own instruments with papier-mâché and electronic components, such as a synthesizer and a theremin.
An own initiative of Álvaro Martínez Alonso made for and funded by Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst und Theater Thikwa e.VParticipants: Ismail Arslantürk, Tobias Brunwinkel, Álvaro Martínez-Alonso, Frank Schulz, Mereika Schulz, Sammy Serag and Christian Wollert
Thikwa Werkstatt für Theater und Kunst. Berlin
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If you are interested in working together or you want to know more about other projects I have been involved with, please do not hesitate to write me.