Hobby Lobby cooperation since 2023

Current semester

Kunstwerkstatt: Geh ma Natur!
Interweaving art and nature
a collaboration with hobby lobby 1210, fall 2025
hosted by Antonija Cvitic, Sagal Hussein
invited guests tba

Nature – is that the park next door for you? Do you think you need lots of materials that you have to buy to be creative? In this art workshop, we create lots of things using natural materials that we find around us, even in the city!

Kunstwerkstatt: Basteln 3000
A journey into your visions of the future with collage, drawing and experimental materials
a collaboration with hobby lobby 1030, Autumn 2025
hosted by sissi petutschnig
invited guests tba

What does your future look like – 10, 50 or 100 years from now? Together we will build crazy visions with collage, tape, drawing and found objects: new cities, fantasy animals, our own rules for living together. Everyone will create a piece that will be put together at the end to form a large picture – colourful, diverse and as unique as you are. With tape art, games and creative challenges, we will style our journey into a big picture.

If you’re interested in cooperating in youth projects with us, please write us (ritger.traag@uni-ak.ac.at)

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Lernen mit Jugendlichen – Angewandte Festival 2025

The Learning with Youth exhibition displays the installation of animations and drawings that the children created during the last Hobby Lobby semester at this year’s Angewandte Festival in the Klasse für Alle studio at Heiligenkreuzerhof. It is supplemented by sketches, storyboards, and an excerpt from a previous year.
The fall/winter program for 2025/26 will be announced in early September. We wish you a wonderful summer!

(WERK) STA(D)(T)T EXPLORER 
Exploring nature in the urban with the youth
a cooperation with hobby lobby, Spring 2023
hosted by Isa Klee, Magdalena Stückler, Ritger Traag
invited guests Isa Klee, Sarah Maier (Zentrum für Wurfkeramik)

What is your relationship with nature? What cool things have you experienced in nature? Do you like insects?

At the Markhof, we get to use four raised beds and cut the blackberries and raspberries; we build deadwood piles around the WOODLET, continue to build the insect nest house, and there are crocuses and other geophytes in the meadow; the dirndls are blooming yellow in the courtyard right now. We also draw plans and our sprouting ideas, build insect houses from ceramics, find an infinite number of different structures and even clay in the middle of the city and learn to orientate ourselves with a compass and self-drawn city maps.

STADT WERK STATT
Exploring nature in the urban with the youth
a cooperation with hobby lobby, Autumn 2023
hosted by Magdalena Stückler, Ritger Traag
invited guests Isa Klee, Sarah Maier (Zentrum für Wurfkeramik)

The environment / city will be explored through various practices – we will approach the topic actively, processually: in search of material, autonomously and working with the immediate. Various sessions will take place, starting with frottage drawing, we will record and observe the structures and forms of public space.

During a walk to explore the urban wilderness with Isa Klee, we will observe our surroundings closely and find insect nesting sites in the urban interstices. Using the knowledge we have learnt, we will (re)build sculptural dwellings together using materials found in nature and clay. Our own work sessions will familiarise us with how to work with the materials. Your own imagination and interpretation are very welcome! Later, these dwellings will be brought back to the city (nature).

NATUR WERKSTATT
Exploring nature in the urban with the youth
a cooperation with hobby lobby, Spring 2024
hosted by Victoria Ferreri, Ritger Traag
invited guest Isa Klee

The aim was to give the children a greater awareness of nature and biodiversity in public spaces and to show them how they can recognise and propagate different plant and insect species in their neighbourhood in an artistic way.

The public space is also YOUR space. We teach all these elements with the help of art and ecological knowledge. We empower the children in their own skills and guide them so that art becomes less intimidating and unfamiliar.

FRÜHLINGS KUNSTWERKSTATT
Kunst Natur und Technik entdecke über eine Stop-Motion-Film
a cooperation with hobby lobby, Spring 2025
hosted by Ivie Isibor , Ritger Traag
invited guest Isa Klee