An artist’s studio in the heart of Preungesheim
For a period of two years (2022-2024), the flying artist’s room – a mobile live-in studio – has taken up residence on Gravensteiner Platz in the Frankfurt district of Preungesheim for use by artists. The programme is contributing to the district’s cultural development and is designed to allow children and young people, as well as their families and other local residents, to participate directly in art and cultural education. The focus is on children and young people affected by poverty. Its location in a public square means that there can be spontaneous encounters with the flying artist’s room in an urban setting. Targeted and open offers will allow the artist’s studio to become a place for collective and artistic design.
Artist-in-residence programme
The flying artist’s room is conceived as an artist-in-residence project in Preungesheim where the emphasis is on digitality as a cultural technique. Artists whose practice focuses on digitality and (digital) technologies temporarily live and work in the flying artist’s room. Each artist spends three months embarking on artistic processes with local residents while in parallel continuing their own artistic creation. For five days a week, they work with local (educational) institutions and also provide an open studio or free workshops. The topics and content are developed in a participative way in collaboration with the people taking part on site.
Internships
The artists are supported by interns – students at Goethe University specialising in Educational Science (B.A. and M.A.) and Art – Media – Cultural Education (M.A.). The students will support the artists in what they are offering and through networking with local institutions and facilities working with children, young people and families. The interns will also design their own media education offers and implement these independently in institutions in Preungesheim.
How it all began
Since the 2018/2019 school year, the flying artist’s room in schools format has been implemented in schools in rural parts of Hessen with cooperation partners Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs (HKM) and Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (HMWK). In the 2022/2023 school year, for the first time six flying artist’s rooms have landed in school playgrounds in rural areas.
The flying artist’s room in an urban setting is a development of the concept for work in cities.
