Collage Workshop for Youth

In this workshop, Elvis Osmanović and Jamila Barakat invite young people to engage creatively with questions about the future. The starting point is a simple but powerful question: What do you hope for your future—personally, socially, collectively?

We work experimentally, playfully, and exploratively with the artistic techniques of monotype and collage. We start with our own thoughts, memories, or feelings and move step by step toward bigger questions:

What images of the future do we carry within us?

What images have been told to us?

Which ones are missing?

Which ones do we want to reinvent?

The workshop is intended as a space for exchange and creation. It is not about right or wrong, but about making perspectives visible. By layering images, texts, drawings, and traces, works are created that combine individual voices with collective experiences.

No prior knowledge is necessary. The workshop offers young people the opportunity to take their thoughts seriously, translate them artistically, and engage in conversation with each other—about hopes, uncertainties, and what may yet come.

Age range: 12–18 years old

In German spoken language

Free of charge

About the workshop leaders:

Elvis Osmanović (born in 1988 in Doboj, Bosnia) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Berlin. He came to Germany as a refugee when he was a child. He studied philosophy of technology in Cottbus and German literature and philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin. He lived in Denmark for several years, where he realized artistic and musical projects. Today, he is a member of Hito Steyerl’s class at the Berlin University of the Arts, currently led by Mykola Ridnyi. He also teaches at a primary school in Berlin-Wedding. His works on memory, trauma, flight, and social dynamics have been shown at the Berlin University of the Arts, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Bärenzwinger Berlin-Mitte, and as part of European Photography Month, among other venues.

Jamila Barakat is a Palestinian-German artist, author, and educator based in Berlin. Her work links personal memory with collective history and explores how identity, belonging, and resistance are inscribed in the body, language, and archives. She creates spaces in which loss, transformation, and hope enter into dialogue with one another. As co-founder of the Interspace collective, a curatorial platform for marginalized and emancipatory perspectives, she develops projects that make solidarity and communal responsibility tangible. For several years, she has been working with children and young people in Berlin’s Wedding district, designing participatory formats in which artistic work becomes a process of self-empowerment. Her practice understands the archive as a living place of testimony, where the repressed remains visible and returns to cultural dialogue. Memory is asserted as a force of resistance—especially in times of institutional erasure.

This event takes place during Jamila Barakat’s solo exhibition Hoffnung أمل