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Performing Arts, Creative Arts and Design

Drawing as a Way of Knowing Plants. A Journey into the World of Plants

When:

28 July - 01 August 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

City:

Berlin

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

Fee:

580 EUR

Interested?
Drawing as a Way of Knowing Plants. A Journey into the World of Plants

About

The workshop's participants will study historical plant samples, explore the Botanical Garden and discover structures with the microscope. The gathered knowledge they will develop into a graphical interpretation of the plant world.

In my workshop you will have the opportunity to engage intensively with botanical phenomena. We will go on voyages of discovery into nature. We will visit special research sites in Berlin on three excursions and examine the plant world in different ways: Systematics and stylization based on historical models in the Laboratory for Drawing at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK); richness of form and complexity in the Botanical Garden; surface structures in the Microscopy Centre at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. At these three locations, which each reveal different aspects of the plant world, participants will learn drawing strategies and gain an insight into the natural world. In this first phase of the workshop, I teach drawing techniques that allow participants to look more closely and accumulate.

Course leader

Kerstin Hille

Target group

Invited are visual artists, architects, designers, as well as self-taught artists with previous knowledge of drawing, who are interested in deepening their study of nature and who want to collectively open up perspectives for their respective artistic practice.

Fee info

Fee

580 EUR

Interested?

When:

28 July - 01 August 2025

School:

Berlin Summer University of the Arts

Institution:

Berlin University of the Arts

Language:

English

Credits:

1 EC

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