Making it possible for children and young people in rural areas to have direct encounters with artists – that was the idea when the Crespo Foundation set up the flying artist’s room in 2018 as a programme for cultural development in schools, in cooperation with the Hessian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs (HKM) and the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (HMWK).
Starting with a mobile studio at one school, there are now five flying artists’ rooms, known as FlieKü for short, visiting schoolyards in rural areas of Hesse, and since 2023, two FlieKüs have also been visiting public squares in the Frankfurt districts of Preungesheim and Ginnheim.
The FlieKüs serve as a place to work and live for two years at one location for artists who, as “artists in residence”, try out creative work processes together with the entire school community or with residents of the district.
