Free admission tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop or at the cash desk.

Colors and shapes are everywhere. In nature, in urban areas, and in the many paintings in the exhibition at the PalaisPopulaire. Artists often use shapes and colors to represent what they see, feel, and think. But can pictures also make sounds, be as quiet as a summer wind or as loud as a thunderclap? The Berliner Philharmoniker and the PalaisPopulaire invite families with children 5 and older, with and without disabilities, to a musical exhibition expedition. A visit to the exhibition becomes  a first concert experience that invites you to participate, but also to listen and watch.

Photo: Alina Simmelbauer

Free admission tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop or at the cash desk.

Colors and shapes are everywhere. In nature, in urban areas, and in the many paintings in the exhibition at the PalaisPopulaire. Artists often use shapes and colors to represent what they see, feel, and think. But can pictures also make sounds, be as quiet as a summer wind or as loud as a thunderclap? The Berliner Philharmoniker and the PalaisPopulaire invite families with children 5 and older, with and without disabilities, to a musical exhibition expedition. A visit to the exhibition becomes  a first concert experience that invites you to participate, but also to listen and watch.

Photo: Alina Simmelbauer

Price: € 6
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop or at the cash desk.

Sculptures of riders on horses have existed for a very long time. There are a few famous examples in Berlin, which we will look at around the PalaisPopulaire. Why is everything so big? Who is the rider and what size shoes do you think he has? In Conny Maier’s paintings, we also meet a horse and rider surrounded by lush nature. But the people shown do not seem to have things under control! We will invent stories around the events and talk about the relationship between people, animals, and nature. Afterwards, we will paint and design our own artwork focusing on this theme.

Admission tickets can be purchased at the ticket shop or at the cash desk.

“How does it begin? With nothing? Maybe” is how the entertaining philosophical story about the origin of everything and nothing begins. In the exhibition, we encounter non-objective shapes such as circles, triangles, and squares, which in the book Maybe by Guido van Genechten become plants, people, and animals, and then shapes and pure color again. Thus, the book deals in an age-appropriate, tangible way with a topic into which a great of thought has been put. We then talk about our own ideas of where we come from and represent these ideas with simple shapes in colorful pictures.

In cooperation with the bookstore Krumulus

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Abstract means without an object. So abstract art is created through the use of colors and shapes. We explore the exhibition together. Which colors are your favorites, which shapes do you like best? We get inspired by particularly beautiful works of art. Then we design great patterns and print our own Christmas paper.

Photo: Doro Petersen

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Many graffiti artists distort images from advertising and the mass media, for example by giving faces on posters comic eyes or tattoos. This is not only funny, as often the changes are made to take a critical look at the world we live in. Starting with the artwork of Brazilian artist Maxwell Alexandre, we take lifestyle and fashion magazines as our point of departure and try out different techniques and effects using ballpoint pens, markers, Tipp-Ex, and scissors.

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Artist Zhang Xu Zhan comes from Taiwan, where paper figures have told mysterious stories for centuries. After viewing his artwork, we invite you to a picture movie of the story “The City of Animals” by Joan Negrescolor. In the remains of a city overgrown by a jungle, a girl tells a crowd of animals about a bygone world. The impressive pictures inspire us to develop our own magical stories and to stage them as shadow theater.

In cooperation with the children’s bookstore Krumulus