The House of Cards built by the Lebenshilfe art workshop in Kreuzberg is about the social situation of people with disabilities, about expectations and prejudices and about how inclusion is implemented. This work is staking a claim to space. It represents the confidence with which we as a group formulate participation, self-determination and presence. But it also draws attention to the fragility of what has been achieved so far. The House of Cards is a model that illustrates how experiences and hopes build on each other within a community but can also fall apart if some aspects are forgotten, ignored or badly secured.
Playing cards stand for luck – good and bad. We use them to tell the future, to bluff or trump, to cheat or to amaze others with tricks. And we try keeping them close to our chest ...
Kunstwerkstatt artists
Angelika Bartel, Sarah al Darwich, Wolfgang und Heidi Fassott, Tim Hartung, Harald Krainer, Lutz Marx, Herbert Mayer, Veronika
Patzuda, David Permantier, Gisa Schrammel, Maximillian Thieme, Hilde Wittur and Eva Zulauf
The guests who joined us
Li Li Dinh Thi, Joshua Gottmanns, Maren Haupt, Sylvie Lazzarini and Valerie Naschert
Lebenshilfe runs Kunstwerkstatt Kreuzberg as an open group for people with and without disabilities who meet once a week at the Berlinische Galerie to make art together.