Guided Tours and Workshops for School Classes
Exhibition architecture | design and impact | documentation and conception
Grade level 9-10
How is an exhibition created? In a guided tour, students learn how light, colors, signage, and room layout influence the perception of works of art. The tour sharpens their eye for detail and conveys how an exhibition space’s design shapes the atmosphere and effect of the art on display.
In the practical part of the workshop, the students independently explore the building in small groups. They are asked to record their unique and perhaps unexpected observations with their cell phones. These impressions can be directly printed out on a photo printer and brought together to create a fictitious exhibition.
Afterwards, the participants discuss their decisions: Which photos were selected and why?
How do light, position, and arrangement influence the effect of the images? The workshop combines perception, creative design, and reflection and enables students to experience exhibition spaces from a new perspective.
Please note: the workshop can be adapted for upper-level grammar school students
Visitor in the exhibition IN DIALOGUE – Hasso Plattner Collection: Art from the GDR at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam, 2025.