Workshops for schools on Rose Lowder & Karol Palczak

The Kunsthalle Zürich invites you to experience two exhibitions that offer different artistic approaches to nature and the environment.

Rose Lowder (born 1941, Peru) is a pioneer of experimental film. Since the 1970s, she has been working with analogue film cameras, composing and editing scenes directly while filming – without any post-production. Her films interweave time and place, play with perception and address nature and sustainability, creating new realities in the process. The exhibition centres on the Bouquets series, created from reused film scraps, which illustrate her complex and unique working method in 60-second clips. The films are accompanied by sketchbooks in which Lowder captures her compositions frame by frame, allowing us to immerse ourselves in her working method.

Karol Palczak (born 1987, Poland) combines the traditions of old master painters with contemporary themes and motifs in his paintings. He stages moments in nature around his hometown, capturing them on film and translating film stills into large, almost photorealistic oil paintings on aluminium. His works often depict landscapes, which he captures in a sequence of several images. This recurrence of motifs from his homeland is also reflected in the exhibition title Dzisiaj, which means ‘today’ in English and refers to something repetitive. Palczak works with techniques that reference cultural history, such as painting on aluminium plates, which is reminiscent of Polish coffin-decoration traditions.

WORKSHOPS FOR SCHOOLS

Through dialogue appropriate to the given age group, we explore the exhibition by Karol Palczak and Rose Lowder in a playful way and then process our impressions in a creative manner. After visiting the exhibition we will create our own experimental (film) strips in the Studio using sticky tape and magazines. We will then translate these into another medium – similar to how Karol Palczak transforms film stills into painting. This will result in small, colourful paintings, challenging our gaze and sharpening our perception along the way. A variety of materials are on hand, such as magazines, sticky tape, neon, gouache, paper and aluminium foil. The students can then take the resulting works home or back to the classroom – as a visible reminder of their own artistic experiment.

Workshops can be booked for weekdays between 27 September 2025 and 18 January 2026. Duration: 90 minutes.

To register, please email fuelscher [​at​] kunsthallezurich.ch (including preferred dates, school and class size).

The workshops are free of charge for all school classes in and outside the Canton of Zürich. For primary schools in the Canton of Zürich, ZVV tickets for the return journey are included (in cooperation with Schule+Kultur, Kultur, Volksschulamt Kanton Zürich).