Kids Program
Kids is the activities program specially designed for children aged 4 to 12 and their families to come into contact with contemporary art in a fun way.
New activities and workshops for children and youth designed to explore and discover the temporary exhibitions by Thao Nguyen Phan and James Lee Byars and the permanent installation by Anselm Kiefer: follow us to know about all the news!
The education department, on December 16 and 17, presents the special program “Winter is coming!”: free workshop dedicated to children ages 7 years and up and their families to explore and discover the works of exhibition “Reincarnations of Shadows” by Thao Nguyen Phan through the unique characteristics of the watercolor technique together with painter and illustrator Alessandro Sanna.
WINTER IS COMING!
The education department, on December 16 and 17, presents the special program “Winter is coming!”: free workshop dedicated to children ages 7 years and up and their families to explore and discover the works of exhibition “Reincarnations of Shadows” by Thao Nguyen Phan through the unique characteristics of the watercolor technique together with painter and illustrator Alessandro Sanna.
At the opening of each workshop all participants will have the opportunity to see Alessandro Sanna paint live, who will then take them on a discovery of the world of watercolors. Children and families will be able to practice with water, brushes and a special "magic paper" and then make their own watercolor.
Alessandro Sanna has imagined a long river made of paper that is just waiting for visitors' contributions to come alive. No need to book: inspired by Thao Nguyen Phan's exhibition, it will be possible to enrich the trace left by Sanna with a black marker and a lot of imagination or experiment with using "magic paper" with water and brush.
Alessandro Sanna (Nogara, 1975) is a painter and illustrator, lives and works in Mantova and teaches Drawing and Illustration at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. He is one of the big names in contemporary Italian and international illustration. He has collaborated with tens of writers and publishers, and his illustrated books have been translated and published in Germany, Spain, Japan, the United States, and other countries. His work has earned him three Andersen awards, including "best illustrator" for "Have you ever seen Mondrian?" (Artebambini, 2006) and a 2016 nomination for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
CREATIVE SESSIONS
Experience Pirelli HangarBicocca's creative courses!
Every Saturday and Sunday, Pirelli HangarBicocca offers activities and workshops that let children and young people discover and explore the temporary exhibitions "Reincarnations of Shadows" by Thao Nguyen Phan and "James Lee Byars" by James Lee Byars and the permanent installation by Anselm Kiefer.
By moving around and playing, listening to your emotions, experimenting with unusual materials and techniques, you'll see how contemporary art and its visual forms can lead you into amazing new worlds. Come and join us!
EDU SUMMER 2023
Edu Summer 2023 is a month-long project (11 June - 3 July 2022) that involved the artist Rebecca Moccia, a movement educator and choreographer Marcella Fanzaga and a mathematician and science presenter Andrea Capozucca. They worked with younger visitors and their families, involving them in activities, workshops, creative projects and camps that explore various forms of expression. The program took its inspiration from the exhibition "Grand Bal" by Ann Veronica Janssens whose works use light, colour, mirrors, air and artificial fog to modify the perception of space and architecture, inviting the visitors to experience reality with all their senses.
QUI L’ARTE SI METTE IN GIOCO.
Divertiti a trasformare il disegno nella tua opera d’arte.
We asked the artist Alice Ronchi to come up with an idea that would help introduce children to the world of contemporary art and she created six original drawings that could be transformed, completed, and coloured with all the freedom and creativity that children are capable of.
Once a week, for six weeks, we offer you a new subject inspired by the works that have been displayed over the years at Pirelli HangarBicocca: have fun turning them into something completely new and original!
Publish photos of your creation on Instagram using our hashtags #ArtToTheKids and #ArtToThePeople with the tag @pirelli_hangarbicocca: the most stunning and surprising drawings will be posted on the social profiles of Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Useful Information
Admission rates for the creativity courses held in Italian on the Kids program are as follows:
First child – 8 euros
Each additional child – 6 euros
Accompanying adult (Family Lab) – free of charge
By purchasing the Family Membership Card children and adults can take part free of charge in all Kids activities, which must be booked online.
For any info about our kids activities, please contact hbkids@hangarbicocca.org
