Workshop | Build your own future being!

Together with the artist and textile artist Anita Hodneland, children will playfully and creatively explore questions of evolution, change, and possible future life forms. Based on the models of post-evolutionary organisms shown in the exhibition—prototypes of future life that simulate new forms of coexistence—the children will design their own future beings.

Under the guidance of Reiner Maria Matysik and Anita Hodneland, soft fabric creatures, imaginary organisms, and hybrid beings will be created—to take home, reflect upon, and develop further.

The workshops will address evolutionary changes and Matysik's artistic practice of "Biological Sculpture" in an age-appropriate manner: Art and evolution are connected by the fact that both bring forth something that did not previously exist. While nature ceaselessly invents new forms, art consciously creates something qualitatively different—new beings, new possibilities, new conceptions of life.

Life is incredible. Incredible is its diversity, its inventiveness, its complexity. In this workshop, children themselves become inventors of new life forms. Design and create your own fabric creature of the future! Imagine the Earth is changing – which creatures would thrive? What superpowers would your fabric creature need to survive? How would it protect itself: with armor, camouflage, feelers, fins, or antennae? How would it move: rolling, hopping, gliding, climbing – or in some other way entirely?


Registration/Booking: / Register by March 27, 2026, at christina.buech@zitadelle-berlin.de or by phone at +49 30 354 944-445

Duration: 3 hours (including two 15-minute breaks)

Number of participants: 5–12 children

Age: 9–12 years


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