It always seems to be about creating something true and beautiful. To find an expression for the times, to immerse the personal in the general, to balance technical perfection with expressiveness in order to then create something incomparable – a work of art. The work itself should have a unique selling point, be enigmatic and yet ambiguous. Like a visual magnet that you want to look at again and again without ever being able to understand it or fully grasp its inherent mystery. This is true art, according to the recipes for great works of art taught by experienced artists.

But what if you put the cart before the horse from the other side and the rider could even be assigned to an unskilled, untalented, non-artistic community. Or he/she would be an artist with an irrepressible thirst for adventure for something new, untamed, for borderline experiences and play on the chaotic, expansive landscapes of the anarchic pasture landscape of the random. “You have to throw off the learned, the academic, the ‘so and so’. In order to gain true artistic freedom, it would be a matter of immediately dumping this manicured, superfluous ballast, confronting the psychological blockades, even escaping the home stretch of one’s own personality,” says Lydia Karstadt. “Great art is created in bad art,” says Lydia Karstadt, ”when it is simply open to what is being created.” As a good friend of Lydia’s, Arielle Schuberti, said when she failed to finish one of her make-up paintings: “I don’t care, I’ll leave it like this!”

With artists like Joseph Beuys, art has opened up to people, so why shouldn’t people open up to art now? So let’s allow all arbitrary, spontaneous, thoughtless, contradictory and reckless strategies in production to happen, as automatically as possible, and watch what happens.

For “Bad Art Secrets”, the first workshop for bad art, we have exclusively won over the enthusiastic lecturer Lydia Karstadt. Every Tuesday she will give us a short introduction to the accidental and thoughtless production of bad art and then help us with the subsequent direct production.

An exhibition presentation is planned after the course.

Participation fee per course is: 30,- Euro/ including material of 10€ Euro

Every Tuesday from 18:45 in the Crystal Ball gallery

Registration by e-mail: crystalballberlin@gmail.com

or 0151- 55 910 099