Welcome to the flying artist’s room!
During the 2025/2026 school year, the flying artist’s room is once again making a guest appearance on school playgrounds in rural Hesse in the form of five mobile art studios. While there are already flying artists‘ rooms from the previous school year at Schlüchtern Municipal School in the district of Main-Kinzig, Walter Lübcke School in the district of Kassel and Battenberg School in the district of Waldeck-Frankenberg, two new FlieKüs are being added in the 2025/2026 school year – one at Käthe Kollwitz School in the district of Main-Kinzig and another at Marie Durand School in Bad Karlshafen.
Five artists or artist duos are serving as artists in residence in this school year. Some are already living and working in a flying artist’s room on a school playground: the artist duo g.a.d.o., comprising Lena Skrabs and Paloma Sanchez-Palencia, at Schlüchtern Municipal School, Dawid Liftinger at Walter Lübcke School and Sophia Mix at Battenberg School. New recruits for the 2025/2026 school year are the artists Sopo Kashakashvili and Johannes Jakobi, who will take up guest posts as artists in residence at Käthe Kollwitz School in Langenselbold and Marie Durand School in Bad Karlshafen.
The artists open up their “home” to students and teachers for three days a week at their respective schools, turning the flying artist’s rooms into a platform and playground for the whole school community to try their hand at aesthetic approaches to curriculum content, experiment with them, come up with original ideas and also do their own projects in an open studio environment.
“It was important for the Crespo Foundation to create a space conceived entirely with the artist in mind: a space for his or her own artistic evolution and in which to develop and try out new concepts of cultural education in schools.”
Prof. Christiane Riedel,
Chair of the Crespo Foundation
Käthe Kollwitz School
Sopo Kashakashvili is moving into the flying artist’s room at Käthe Kollwitz School as artist in residence for the 2025/2026 school year
Marie Durand School
Johannes Jakobi moved into his flying artist’s room at Marie Durand School in Bad Karlshafen in the summer of 2025.
Walter Lübcke School
Dawid Liftinger will be creating in his flying artist’s school on the playground of Walter Lübcke School for a third school year.
Battenberg School
The artist Sophia Mix has been in residence in her flying artist’s room on the playground of Battenberg School since the 2024/2025 school year.
Schlüchtern Municipal School
Artist duo g.a.d.o. have now been living and creating their flying artist’s room for three years.
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