ART-BASED TALKING GROUP

 

Group setting for the shared discussion of personal artistic work

- for people who pursue their own artistic practice

 

Goals

• Broadening perspectives on one’s own artistic process

• Understanding the psychodynamic dimension of personal artistic practice

• Supporting reflection on one’s own and others’ work

• Strengthening perception, verbal expression, and aesthetic judgment

• Developing a sense of distance and closeness to one’s own process

• Encountering others on equal footing within the group

• Experiencing resonance and differentiated feedback

 

Framework

• Art-based, art-therapeutic group offering

• Purely conversational format

• Complements individual artistic work with a collective level of reflection and discussion

 

Conceptual Foundations

• Inspired by artistic education and academic formats (e.g., group critique, studio critique)

• Depth-psychologically oriented

• Resource-oriented and non-judgmental approach to the artwork

• Engaging with the artwork as a mode of expression and a gateway to the artist

 

Structure

• Welcome and brief introduction by the facilitator

• Participants present their artworks

• Shared viewing of the works (ideally in their original form)

• Structured group dialogue: What do we see? What stands out? What associations arise?

• Artistic, formal, and emotional feedback from the group

• Closing round: reflection, with the option to deepen the process individually

 

Details

• Duration: 1.5 hours

• Mondays, 7:30 PM

• Group size: max. 6 participants (min. 3 registrations)

• 30 Euro per person/session