“If you want to be an artist, get in touch!”
Workshop for students aged 14 and over on the current exhibition Access Kafka
The exhibition Access Kafka searches for a connection between literature and art based on a question that is omnipresent in Kafka's work and also touches on the core of our social self-image: Is someone granted or denied access? To this end, manuscripts and drawings from Franz Kafka's estate are juxtaposed with contemporary artworks by Yael Bartana, Maria Eichhorn, Anne Imhof, Martin Kippenberger, Maria Lassnig, Trevor Paglen, Hito Steyerl and other artists.
By appointment
Where
Old Building, ground level, “Meeting Point” in the foyer
Lindenstraße 9–14, 10969 Berlin
In the workshop, the pupils first work in small groups to understand a short prose text by Kafka. This text serves as a foil for a free exploration of the exhibition with the task of making connections between the text they have read and works of art they have chosen themselves. The results are presented and discussed in a joint discussion.
The workshop makes it possible to experience how literature can provide access to art and, conversely, how art can provide access to literature.
Exhibition ACCESS KAFKA: Features & Programs
- Exhibition Webpage
- Access Kafka (13 Dec 2024 to 4 May 2025): Information on the exhibition chapters, artworks and documents
- Accompanying Events
- Exhibition Opening: 12 Dec 2024, 7 pm
- Curator's Tour with Shelley Harten: Tour with fixed dates, in German
- Access Word – JMB Book Club The Vegetarian by Han Kang: 21 Jan 2025, in German
- Kafka and Art – Lecture by Hans-Gerd Koch: 30 Jan 2025, in German and German Sign Language (DGS)
- Access Word: JMB Book Club A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka – 25 Feb 2025, in German
- On Fathers. Writing workshop with brunch and guided tour – with fixed dates
- Public Tour in German: Tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in English: Tour with fixed dates
- Public Tour in Hebrew: Tour with fixed dates
- Bookable Tour for Groups: Tour by appointment
- Current page: Bookable Workshop for Students – By appointment, in German
- Digital Content
- Access Deferred: Essay by Vivian Liska on Kafka’s Judaism, from the exhibition catalog, 2024
- Franz Kafka: A short biography and further online content on the topic
- Kafka in Berlin: Berlin walk on Jewish Places to biographical stations of Franz Kafka, written by Hans-Gerd Koch
- Publications
- Exhibition catalog: German edition, 2024
- Exhibition catalog: English edition, 2024
We would like to thank the FRIENDS OF THE JMB for supporting the educational programs accompanying the exhibition.
