Vertical, Horizontal, Movement, and Gesture (Ages 4–6)

During the session, we’ll explore how our bodies react to the Museum’s architecture and how we can engage in a direct dialogue with it. The artist has created a massive structure that stretches from the floor to the skylight and reacts naturally to light and the movement of passersby. Together, we’ll explore how our own presence can transform the space around us. We’ll seek answers to these questions through joyful experiments with gravity, our own bodies, and the traces we leave behind.

In the workshop portion, we’ll shift our perspective and translate our impressions from the tour directly into visual art. We’ll draw inspiration from the installation’s vertical, fluid form. We’ll try to open ourselves up to the forces of chance and gravity!

Instead of sticking to rigid rules and traditional tools, we’ll focus on joyful collaboration in family teams and large-scale painting. We’ll use our hands, feet, and our own energy to collectively cover vast swaths of paper with color. We’ll see how a dynamic, free-flowing gesture can completely transform the space around us and turn it into a story about our presence at the Museum.

Your workshop ticket grants you access to the exhibition (for up to 3 hours from the start time of the workshop).

Piotr Lewandowski – MSN educator, visual artist, cultural animator. A graduate of Media Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and Photography at the University of Arts in Poznań. He works with photography, video, installation, and performance. His art explores themes related to movement, space, interpersonal relationships, and queerness.