My Happy Place: Cloud

 

Creative course for pupils of the Hemingway-Schule (2019/20)

 

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My Happy Place: Wolke in the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art 2020. Photo: Katja Zeidler
My Happy Place: Wolke in the courtyard of KW Institute for Contemporary Art 2020. Photo: Katja Zeidler
My Happy Place: Wolke in the courtyard of the Hemingway School. Photo: Moritz Gramming
My Happy Place: Wolke in the courtyard of the Hemingway School. Photo: Moritz Gramming
My Happy Place: Wolke (detail) in the courtyard of the Hemingway School. Photo: Moritz Gramming
My Happy Place: Wolke (detail) in the courtyard of the Hemingway School. Photo: Moritz Gramming

 

My Happy Place: Cloud is an artistic mediation project with pupils from the neighboring Hemingway-Schule and the art mediator Moritz Gramming. During the course, which runs since August 2019, the pupils were dealing with questions about space and were asked to define their personal “happy place”. The project title aims at expressing the variety of subjective interpretations of these three words. In order to approach this abstract theme, an array of things were tested; a lot of drawing was done, the classroom was decorated with a long paper garland, and designs were made of what the classroom could be turned into (zoo, fast food restaurant, cinema). Music was played and danced to. The pupils also visited the current exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art—the school as a “happy place”?

 

Shortly before the corona virus radically changed the school daily life, some pupils began painting cloud formations. More and more of them joined in on developing the motif, which resulted in several cloud pictures and the substructure of the cloud currently hovering over the courtyard of KW. Despite the abrupt end to the project, Moritz Gramming was able to complete the installation in the schoolyard together with a few pupils. Colour studies of the course participants served as templates.

 

After the cloud having hung in the foyer of the Hemingway-Schule, it will now float above the courtyard of KW from June 22 to July 6, 2020, inviting you to reflect on your personal “happy place”.

 

Artistic director: Moritz Gramming
In cooperation with KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Foundation SPI

 

Participating in the course as well as in the production of the cloud were Neva, Leah, Lucija, Ekin, Nehir, Elif, Jetlume, Dakhiel, Amra, Miriam, Samra, Fatih, and Romans.