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Kirstin Lohmann – Questions

Which topic turns up again and again in your artistic activities?

At first glance, my sculptures often appear to be inconspicuous and almost trite. The circumstances of day-to-day life are ironically questioned. Here, I like to choose well-familiar aspects out of their usual context and show new perspectives. Sometimes, one has to take a close look in order to see where these objects differ from what one is used to. I am generally interested in whether one can view things differently from what they were originally meant to be.

What do you seek to achieve with your arts education activities?

I want to develop creative spaces for cultural education in which one can freely realise one’s own artistic ideas in an unbiased manner in a team. Here, the individual goes through an artistic process with all its ups and downs. This also means that the process remains open-ended for as long as possible, so that the entire creative potential can develop. This isn’t always easy, but I see myself as a companion asking concrete questions for individuals to reflect on their own artistic development and to drive the creative process.

What, in your view, is the essence of an artistic intervention in arts education?

I see my role as an artist in arts education projects as that of asking questions in order to enter into communication, artistic exchange and action with others. Artistic impulses are meant to inspire, but certainly also to irritate my counterpart. The idea is not to straightaway find a solution or answer to everything, but to commonly develop ideas in an artistic process, review results critically, discard approaches and experiment anew. To me, it is important to look outside the box, which might often be challenging, but can also be fascinating.