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We visited one of Europe's leading museums for living contemporary art: Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. In the museum's historic hall, there was a breathtaking participatory installation by the Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė, We Make Years Out of Hours. The space was covered with around 400,000 small wooden cubes, inviting visitors to build whatever they imagined. Throughout the day, the landscape constantly changed as people collaborated, dismantled, and rebuilt new structures, turning the installation into a living artwork shaped by collective participation.

There, Anita challenged us to work in groups and create our own structure using the wooden blocks. Once we had finished, each group presented and explained the meaning behind their construction to the rest of the class.

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After our group exercise in Lina Lapelytė's participatory installation We Make Years Out of Hours, each team was asked to choose a contemporary artwork and discuss what message it conveyed.

Our group worked on Joseph Beuys' Truth. Viewed from the top of the staircase, the work could also be read as "Hurts", suggesting that truth hurts. It was fascinating to see how the meaning shifted depending on the viewer's perspective.

I was especially impressed by the Joseph Beuys exhibition. It was an honour to experience the fifteen works that Hamburger Bahnhof holds by one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Beuys redefined art as a tool for social change, believing that creativity belongs to everyone and that every person has the power to shape society through what he called "social sculpture."

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ERASMUS+ PROJECT NUMBER:  2025-1-ES01-KA121-SCH-000317715

MOBILITY ID: 17715-MOB-0004

PARTICIPANTS: Gisela Arimany Pruenca

SENDING ORGANIZATION: IE GREDA

RECIEVING ORGANIZATION: EUROPASS TEACHER ACADEMY

LOCATION: BERLIN

DATES: 20-26 OF JUNE 2026

NAME OF THE COURSE: Berlin’s Museums: An Experiential Learning Path

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(For each day, provide some explanation of the activities and new learnings. You can include any photos, videos or material you want to share)

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Before the course officially began, I decided to explore one of Berlin's alternative art districts, close to the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. The area is full of independent galleries, creative spaces, and contemporary art venues. One of the exhibitions I visited focused on Kyiv and showcased the work of emerging Ukrainian artists. These are some of the photographs I took during my visit.

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Today the course officially started!

There are 22 participants, all coming from very different educational backgrounds: art schools, dance schools, museums, and other cultural institutions. Some are teachers, while others are museum directors or work in the cultural sector.

To break the ice, we began with a collaborative portrait exercise inspired by Picasso. We each wrote our name on a sheet of paper, and then the papers were passed around randomly. Each participant drew one part of another person's face—eyes, nose, mouth, the outline of the head, ears...—without seeing the complete portrait.

The result was a series of surprising, playful, and unique portraits that immediately helped us get to know each other in a creative way.

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After the icebreaker, each participant gave a short presentation about their school or institution, their city, and their country. It was a great opportunity to discover the diversity of contexts and educational approaches represented in the group.

In my presentation, I introduced my school and talked about two artistic projects that connect education with museums: Mirades Compartides and Arrela't. Both projects use art as a way to build relationships between people, strengthen the connection with the local community, and encourage learning through collaboration with museums and cultural institutions.

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What better way to discover a city than through someone who actually lives there?

This is Juan, a friend I lived with in Iceland several years ago. He kindly showed me around Berlin, sharing places that only a local would know and giving me a first-hand perspective on the city's atmosphere, history, and everyday life.

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Museum Tour: Taking the Classroom Beyond the School

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Museum Tour: Taking the Classroom Beyond the School

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We started the day with an introduction by our teacher, Anita, who gave us some historical and cultural context about Berlin's Museum Island. She explained why it is one of the city's most important cultural sites and introduced us to one of its most famous treasures: the bust of Nefertiti, which is housed in the Neues Museum.

Our practical assignment was to work in groups of five and design our own museum route around a theme that we had to choose together. My group decided on "Holes and Memory," inspired by the artistic project Forats, which we are currently developing for the Vora Vora project in Olot.

Each member of the group had to select an artwork that evoked a personal memory. I chose an ancient Egyptian sarcophagus because it reminded me of a pond at my grandparents' home. Looking at it made me think about water as the element that connects the living and the dead—a place where memory continues to flow.

One sentence from the museum's audio guide particularly stayed with me: "Eternal life in harmony with the divine sphere." It accompanied the explanation about the goddess of the sky and the world of the dead, and it resonated deeply with my own memories and with the ideas we are exploring through Forats.

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One of the most surprising works at Hamburger Bahnhof is Joseph Beuys' Unschlitt (Tallow). The huge blocks are made of animal fat, a material Beuys used as a symbol of energy, change, and transformation. He believed that art could transform not only materials, but also the way we see and shape the world.

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The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, obliquely sinking into the earth (1991). Jeff Wall

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The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, obliquely sinking into the earth (1991). Jeff Wall

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One artwork that impressed me was The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, obliquely sinking into the earth by Jeff Wall. It shows a museum slowly sinking into the ground. The artwork makes us think about museums, time, and how contemporary art changes over the years.

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Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care. Bruce Nauman

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Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care. Bruce Nauman

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I also visited Room with My Soul Left Out, Room That Does Not Care by Bruce Nauman. It is a black cross-shaped space that you can walk through. The artwork made me feel quiet, isolated, and a little uncomfortable, showing how space can change our emotions.

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We visited the Neue Nationalgalerie and explored its collection of 20th-century art (from around 1900 to the early 2000s). We saw works by artists such as Picasso, Rodchenko, Calder, Soulages, Richard Long, Pipilotti Rist, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cornelia Schleime, Günter Brus, and Rebecca Horn.

Outside, we experienced the beautiful Fog Sculpture by the Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya. Her artwork uses real water mist to transform the museum's architecture and changes every minute with the wind and the light.

One of our activities was to think about how the exhibition space changes the meaning of an artwork. The building, the light, and the surroundings are all part of the artistic experience.

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After the museum, I visited Marina Abramović's exhibition Balkan Erotic Epic at the Gropius Bau. It was one of the most powerful exhibitions I have ever seen. Through videos, installations, and live performances, Abramović explores desire, sexuality, death, rituals, and our connection to nature and our ancestors

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On the last day, we met at the DDR Museum, where we learned about everyday life in East Germany during the communist period. A guide showed us how people lived, worked, and organised their daily lives through objects, documents, and personal stories. It helped me understand how this history still influences Berlin today. I think values such as community, equality, and a less consumerist way of life can still be seen in many Berliners, as well as in the city's culture, electronic music, and alternative scene.

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After the museum visit, we returned to the course venue for our final group presentation. Our group chose the concept of truth and selected one artwork from each museum that represented this idea. We presented our work as a visual diary of our week in Berlin and everything we had learned during the course. At the end, we received our certificates and celebrated the end

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The objectives of these mobility are:

Articulate a comprehensive understanding of Berlin’s museums as dynamic platforms for interactive learning and engagement;

Demonstrate the application of experiential learning principles in diverse contexts, using Berlin as a classroom for critical thinking;

Acquire skills to seamlessly integrate Berlin’s museums into formal settings, enhancing both curricular and extracurricular learning experiences;

Engage in collaborative activities, gain insights into collaborative efforts between cultural hubs, and develop networking skills with colleagues from Europe;

Gain insights into sustainable development practices within cultural heritage, applying principles to sustain Erasmus mobilities and implement impactful projects.

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König Galerie