School formats in the exhibitions

We present here our offerings for schoolchildren in association with special exhibitions. Our school programme offers skills- and activity-oriented approaches to art for all grades and educational levels. Through discussion and learning based on exemplary artworks, pupils are encouraged to think about and interact with art. Teachers will discover links to school curricula and will be able to incorporate new ideas into their lessons.

All our offerings are dialogue-based and interactive. For formats 120 minutes or longer, a studio component is possible.

On request, we can also adapt formats to different educational levels.

Interactive image viewing or workshop with creative or performative experiments

IMPRESSIONISM: CURTAIN UP!  4th – 13th grade

Dialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with creative practice

60 min | 90 min collection or 120 min collection + studio

Come over here! Look at me and be amazed! What do you recognise in my face? Take a close look! Can you assume my posture?

In “Curtain Up!” we look at casts of characters whose stage directors, the Impressionists, were masterful composers. But how did they go about creating these figures? We will investigate their techniques and philosophise and perform based on concepts such as the key moment and staging. Paintings and sculptures provide the impetus to get moving and recreate with our own bodies the motifs of the Impressionists.

IMPRESSIONISM. DREAM-LIKE CITYSCAPES  5th – 13th grade

Interactive discussion or workshop with creative techniques

60 min | 90 min collection or 120 min collection + studio

Let’s take a closer look: Are those fluffy white clouds or a murky vapour building up in the background of Alfred Sisley’s The Seine at Billancourt? How do landscape and cityscape actually differ from one another? We follow the Impressionists in their observations and reflect on processes of change in nature and the city. What impresses us as we move through the world? What do we do in our free time?

In this format we get to know the chief characteristics of Impressionism. Works of art provide food for thought for how we live and how we want to live.

THE EPHEMERAL LAKE  1st – 4th grade

Dialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with digital practice

As part of the celebration in 2024 of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting THE EPHEMERAL LAKE, an immersive installation that highlights the unique expressive power of the works of the important Romantic painter by setting them in dialogue with digital landscapes created in the twenty-first century. 

Pupils will be introduced to key artworks by Caspar David Friedrich in a dialogue-based and interactive manner and, building on this background, immerse themselves in the virtual world of the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987). What do the two artists have in common? How do they represent the relationship between human and nature? How does the constantly changing immersive installation function, and what questions does it raise about our present and future as we contemplate it? 

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studioDialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with digital practice

Dialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with digital practice

As part of the celebration in 2024 of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting THE EPHEMERAL LAKE, an immersive installation that highlights the unique expressive power of the works of the important Romantic painter by setting them in dialogue with digital landscapes created in the twenty-first century. 

Pupils will be introduced to key artworks by Caspar David Friedrich in a dialogue-based and interactive manner and, building on this background, immerse themselves in the virtual world of the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987). What do the two artists have in common? How do they represent the relationship between human and nature? How does the constantly changing immersive installation function, and what questions does it raise about our present and future as we contemplate it? 

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

THE EPHEMERAL LAKE  5th – 13th grade

Interactive discussion or workshop with digital practice

As part of the celebration in 2024 of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting THE EPHEMERAL LAKE, an immersive installation that highlights the unique expressive power of the works of the important Romantic painter by setting them in dialogue with digital landscapes created in the twenty-first century. 

Pupils will be introduced to key artworks by Caspar David Friedrich in a dialogue-based and interactive manner and, building on this background, immerse themselves in the virtual world of the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987). What do the two artists have in common? How do they represent the relationship between human and nature in their art? How does the constantly changing immersive installation function, and what questions does it raise about our present and future as we contemplate it? 

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

Dialogue-based and interactive guided tour or workshop with digital practice

As part of the celebration in 2024 of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840), the Hamburger Kunsthalle is presenting THE EPHEMERAL LAKE, an immersive installation that highlights the unique expressive power of the works of the important Romantic painter by setting them in dialogue with digital landscapes created in the twenty-first century. 

Pupils will be introduced to key artworks by Caspar David Friedrich in a dialogue-based and interactive manner and, building on this background, immerse themselves in the virtual world of the Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen (b. 1987). What do the two artists have in common? How do they represent the relationship between human and nature? How does the constantly changing immersive installation function, and what questions does it raise about our present and future as we contemplate it? 

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

ISA MONA LISA  1st – 4th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

How do you imagine a person? We often only see what we already know. But is that the whole truth? When you hear the word »woman«, what image comes to mind and what expression do the artists in the exhibition find to broaden our view?

Pupils are introduced to contemporary art by looking and asking questions. The content is approached, discussed and reflected upon in dialogue and using interactive methods.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

ISA MONA LISA  5th – 13th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

How do you imagine a person? We often only see what we already know. But is that the whole truth? When you hear the word »woman«, what image comes to mind and what expression do the artists in the exhibition find to broaden our view?

Pupils are introduced to contemporary art by looking and asking questions. The content is approached, discussed and reflected upon in dialogue and using interactive methods.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120 min special exhibition + studio

ILLUSION. Dream – Identity – Reality  1st – 4th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

We trace the different facets of illusion in art from the Old Masters, through the Renaissance and Baroque to the present day. We approach paintings with an enquiring eye and learn about exciting background stories, such as the artistic competition between Zeuxis and Parrhasius or the story of Giotto's fly.

By looking and asking questions pupils are introduced to the topic of »illusion«. Through dialogue and interactive methods, the content is approached, discussed and reflected upon across epochs.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min special exhibition | 120-180 min special exhibition + studio

ILLUSION. Dream – Identity – Reality  5th – 13th grade

Interactive talk or workshop with creative techniques

We trace the different facets of illusion in art from the Old Masters, through the Renaissance and Baroque to the present day. We approach paintings with an enquiring eye and learn about exciting background stories, such as the artistic competition between Zeuxis and Parrhasius or the story of Giotto's fly.

By looking and asking questions pupils are introduced to the topic of »illusion«. Through dialogue and interactive methods, the content is approached, discussed and reflected upon across epochs.

The programme is dialogue-based and interactive. We work with a small selection of works as examples. Creative techniques are used in front of the originals.

From a length of 120 minutes, this format can also be booked to include digital practice in the studio.

60-90 min Sonderausstellung |  120-180 min Sonderausstellung + Atelier