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Kindergartens & Schools
The 90 minutes workshops on site are free of charge up to a certain quota. In addition, we develop individual offers for welcome classes in which art and language (German) are in the focus. We are happy to offer special tours and workshops for classes with blind, deaf, visually impaired, and hearing impaired students and in simple language for every exhibition. To tailor all offers to the needs of your class or group, please contact us directly.
More information and registration at palais.populaire@db.com or +49 30 20209319
March 20 – August 17, 2026
Seeing Words, Reading Images
The Written Art Collection in dialogue with the Deutsche Bank Collection
BookArt
June 8 and June 22, 2026, from 9 to 10:30 am each
Free program for 3rd - 6th grade
A puma quietly creeps into the day. Stroke by stroke, sentence by sentence, it comes to light, emerging from the picture and bringing a small story with it... In a very special interplay between text and image, Lena Raubaum and Verena Pavoni tell stories of five animals, of sudden strength and courage, of creativity and precise perception. As part of the exhibition Seeing Words, Reading Images, we delve into this exciting interplay and discover the book in a mix of picture cinema and interactive reading. In the subsequent workshop, we will create our own images using the mysterious sgraffito technique and invent matching words.
In cooperation with the bookstore Krumulus
Treasure chest of colorful words
Free program for kindergartens, 1st and 2nd grade (valid until the end of the exhibition)
Together, we will walk through the exhibition Seeing Words, Reading Images and discover artworks that tell us a lot about different cultures and people. Normally, we see words in books and texts, with images, we look at color, people, or objects. However, in our exhibition we try something new: we look at signs and symbols and read images. Artworks can be "read" to discover hidden signs and symbols within them. What can you discover and how do you understand images? How can they say so much?
AI image
Our Worlds
Free program for 3rd - 6th grade (valid until the end of the exhibition)
The artworks in the exhibition Seeing Words, Reading Images engage with our old and new worlds in various ways. They show how different yet similar our cultures, writings, and stories are. Many of the artists reflect on this in various forms: where do I come from? Where am I going?
We will reflect on these questions and similar ones together and get creative.
Photo: Daniel Wetzel
My Writing: My Responsibility?
Free program from 7th grade onwards (valid until the end of the exhibition)
Writing changes over time! It is simplified by modern technology, by images and symbols like memes and emojis, new vocabulary flows into our daily language and we adopt words from other countries. Language is our ultimate means of communication, global and transhistorical.
In the exhibition Seeing Words, Reading Images, writing is presented as an artwork, a tool, a memory, and thus as a dialogue. How are we connected? What are our connections?
Photo: Daniel Wetzel