Roman Kroke » Workshops

WORKSHOP: Ocean pollution and marine conservation (Ev. Akademie Loccum/DE)

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Roman Kroke led a workshop for students about the topic of ocean pollution and maritime conservation for the Evangelische Akademie Loccum (DE).

Some of the participants’ video presentations explaining the concept of their artwork are online (in German):

Videos

WORKSHOP: University of Teacher Education HEP Vaud, Lausanne/CH

admin — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:34:55 +0000

For the forth consecutive year, Roman Kroke leads an interdisciplinary art-workshop for students of the University of Teacher Education HEP Vaud (Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud), Lausanne/CH.

Photo gallery

PRESS: Newspaper articles, Art-Workshop in Grosseto (Italy)

admin — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 20:36:58 +0000

Italian newspapers report on Roman Kroke’s art-project in partnership with ISGREC (Historical Institute about Resistance and Contemporary History), Grosseto/Italy (2.-5. November 2021). Taking the history of the Berlin Wall as a starting point, the participants explored in their artworks “new walls”, physical and psychological ones – in the past, present and future.

Articles

WORKSHOP: “LIVING MEMORIALS”, Naliboki Forest (Belarus)

admin — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 10:42:49 +0000

In his role as the pedagogic and artistic coordinator of the international project LIVING MEMORIALS, Roman Kroke travelled to Belarus where he gave lectures and led an interdisciplinary workshop in the middle of the primary Naliboki Forest. Participants: Teachers, students, researchers, historians, artists. Topic: The history of the Jewish Bielski Partisans whose story received worldwide attention through Edward Zwick’s movie Defiance (2008), with James Bond 007 actor Daniel Craig portraying the Jewish partisan commander Tuvia Bielski.

The project was funded by the EVZ Foundation and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany as part of the program YOUNG PEOPLE REMEMBER.

Documentation of the Artworks

LECTURE & WORKSHOP: “Microplastic und Chameleons”, Nord Sea island Juist (Germany)

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:04:38 +0000

At the invitation of the municipality, Roman Kroke travelled to the North Sea island Juist giving a lecture on his interdisciplinary art projects on the topics of plastic pollution of the oceans, biodiversity and climate change; in particular on his Pacific Ocean crossing on board of the German research vessel SONNE and his whale shark research in the Philippines in cooperation with marine biologists from the organisation LAMAVE.

He also led a four-day art workshop on this topic for young people on behalf of the KlimaWerkstatt Juist. A short video teaser of the collective art-work created by the participants:

Video

WORKSHOP: Pedogocial University BEJUNE, Biel (Switzerland)

admin — Thu, 20 May 2021 21:14:36 +0000

Roman Kroke led a 4-day art workshop for students of the BEJUNE University of Teacher Education (Berne, Jura, Neuchâtel), Biel/Switzerland.

On behalf of the HEP University, he developed a workshop concept on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Switzerland: the participants created artworks on various women’s biographies that had a lasting impact on the society of their time (and subsequent generations): Annette Kellermann, Josephine Baker, Nzinga, Clémentine Delait, Leymah Gbowee, Gerda Taro, Sonita Alizadeh, Phoolan Devi etc.

WORKSHOP: University of Teacher Education HEP Vaud, Lausanne/CH

admin — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 22:54:36 +0000

Roman Kroke leads an interdisciplinary art-workshop for students of the University of Teacher Education HEP Vaud (Haute école pédagogique du canton de Vaud), Lausanne/CH. The next workshop in Switzerland he’ll direct in Saint-Maurice for students auf the “Haute Ecole Pédagogique du Valais – HEPVS”, (May 2019).

Photo-Gallery of the Workshop

SEMINAR: “Microplastic and Medusae – Expeditions into H₂O”, Berlin University of the Arts (DE)

admin — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:33:40 +0000

In the Wintersemster 2017/2018 Roman Kroke will lead the interdisciplinary seminar “Microplastic and Medusae – Expeditions into H₂O ” at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). The seminar will also be open for students of the Technische Universität Berlin (TU). The project is supported by the “Hybrid Plattform”, the cross-disciplinary project platform of the UdK and the TU Berlin where artists, scientists and experts collaborate beyond their individual disciplines and universities, investigating future-oriented topics and issues.

Roman Kroke will henceforth propose this project concept also to other European Universities and adapt it for interdisciplinary projects on school level (art, biology, chemistry, physics, philosophy).

Seminar (UdK/TU)

Photo-Gallery (research travel)

PUBLICATION: “Schienen in den Tod – Brücken in die Zukunft”

admin — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 12:57:55 +0000

Publication by the Berlin University of the Arts, edited by Roman Kroke about the interdisciplinary seminar about the memorial site “Gleis 17″, Berlin (DE).

Kroke, Roman : Schienen in den Tod – Brücken in die Zukunft (1941-2016), Interdisziplinäres Pilotprojekt zum Mahnmahl Gleis 17. Verlag der Universität der Künste Berlin (October 2016).

Extract from the Publication

“Refugees got Talent” | Storytelling-Workshop, Brussels (Belgium)

admin — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 08:43:25 +0000

Interdisciplinary Storytelling-Workshop for the organization “Refugees got talent” – concept & direction by Roman Kroke. Location: « Château-Ferme de Baya » (Belgium), August 2016. Participants from Iraq and Azerbaijan, at home in different genres of art (painting, music, acting, sculpture, calligraphy, graffiti, …). – As artists we are all “storytellers”. Telling stories in a realistic or abstract way, through colors, music, poetry, voice, photos, acting, … Throughout our life we will always be searching for new facets to integrate into our storytelling. To keep our art – our love for art – alive, dynamic and fresh. In the first part of the workshop, the participants explored the metaphorical dimensions of one of the oldest mediums of storytelling: the book. What symbolism have humans throughout the centuries, from most different cultures and regions of the world (Persian, Chinese, Russian, Egyptian, South American, European …) associated with the universe of books, pages, libraries, …? How could these metaphors be transformed into artistic creations (drawings, paintings, sculptures, music, …)? In the second part of the workshop, every participant was free to experiment with these new concepts of storytelling by creating an artwork of his/her choice.