The AKI workshops are places of research: where hands and minds work together, where mistakes are valuable, and where making itself becomes a way of thinking. Each workshop is supervised by professionals (instructors) who challenge you to look beyond technology alone. They help you formulate questions, explore new materials and make connections between craft and concept.
At the AKI, you literally step into the creative process. Here you learn not only techniques, but also ways of looking, trying and exploring. You move from workshop to workshop, from idea to execution, from experiment to insight. Creating is the moment when you get up and immerse yourself in the world of materials, smells, colours and sounds.
The photo/video studio offers space for research into image, light and composition: from portrait photography to experimental lighting, from still lifes to spatial installations. Here you learn to work with camera, light, lens and digital post-processing, and discover how technique and concept influence each other.
Next to the studio is the analogue black-and-white and colour darkroom – a place where photography becomes tangible. In the dark laboratory, you will experience how time, chemistry and action shape the image. Developing film and printing photos requires patience, precision and experimentation. Here, ideas become visible and concrete, and the process of creation itself becomes part of the artistic research.
In the screen printing workshop, you explore colour, composition and repetition while working with paint and printing screens. The Risograph printer enables visual experiments and allows you to develop your visual language further.
In the printmaking workshop, you experience how material and print influence each other: the structure of paper, the resistance of the press, and the randomness of ink.
The wood workshop offers space for spatial research: from construction to sculpture, from craft to concept. Across the way, clay takes shape in the ceramics workshop – a place where time, temperature and action influence each other and where ideas literally harden.
In the metal workshop, you explore the tension between hardness and malleability. Working with metal requires precision, patience and attention – qualities that you also develop in your artistic process.
