Street Kids – Eine Begegnung in Bildern mit tansanischen Straßenkindern

Interactive exhibition with workshops for forms related to intercultural education – designed together with Birgit Metzger

 

Locations

27/04 - 15/05/2009
Foyer in the town hall of the city of Würzburg / Germany
Vernissage by the patron Lord Mayor Georg Rosenthal

30/06 - 05/07/2008
Gustav-Meyer-Schule, Berlin / Germany

12/02 - 25/06/2008 (without workshops)
Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücken, Berlin / Germany

02/11 - 16/11/2007
BREBIT – Brandenburger entwicklungspolitische Bildungs- und Informationstage, Weidenhof-Grundschule, Potsdam / Germany
Vernissage by the president of the parliament of Brandenburg Gunter Fritsch

23/04 - 28/04/2007
AfroBerlin 2007, Werkstatt der Kulturen, Berlin / Germany 

09/2006 - 01/2007
Anton-Schmaus-Haus, youth center, Berlin-Neukölln / Germany

 

Conception

Two "street boys" illustrated biographical scenes of daily street life in Mwanza, Tanzania. These drawings enrich our understanding of the street children´s Lebenswelt. They are emotionally evocative and provide insight into the children´s hopes and dreams. On one hand the drawings are virtual mental maps of the surroundings in which the street children inhabit. On the other hand, the highly personal nature of the material, often dealing with village and family life, shows how drawing can be an effective instrument for coping with the past.

Topics like social relationships, violence, drug usage, the clash of tradition and modernity and visions are portrayed.