About 30 years ago, the director Hermann Vaske asked prominent and less well-known people: "Why are you creative?"

Together with the Haus der Geschichte and Eydos, we restaged the resulting video statements in the entrance portal of the play area and made them accessible on several monitors.

Analogue painting surface

At the "stroking area", visitors have the opportunity to express their own creativity - in a classic analogue way. On a huge sequin wall, you can create impressive pictures by simply stroking back and forth, in groups as well as alone, and leave behind very personal messages in the form of patterns, graphics or statements.

Right next to it - in the centre of the play area - a large, high-resolution LED surface has been installed, inviting visitors to get creative in a digital way.

Hidden videos and images, represented abstractly by animated dots, can be "activated" by movements of arms and hands and reassembled into realistic images.

This digital installation can also be used alone or in a group. The latter is made possible by a depth camera that can also capture and process movements and gestures of several players simultaneously.

Finally, on an analogue "free space", visitors are encouraged to live out their creativity further, through various elements and installations. With coloured round stickers and adhesive tape, a formerly white wall can be transformed into a colourful work of art.

Despite the simple means, surprising, sometimes complex motifs emerge that can be changed again and again.

Modular system

In order to be able to use the elements in other exhibitions as well, all installations have been constructed in a modular way. This means that the LED wall can be set up flexibly and also used for other visual exhibitions.

And the basic framework of the installations - a classic pipe connection system - can also be individually reconstructed and used again and again.

Two more exhibitions are already being planned and implemented together with Eydos.