Artist workshop with Jaqueline Scheiber at Kunsthalle Wien Atelier
Please register at: vermittlung@kunsthallewien.at
Language: German
Workshop fee: € 25
Reduced: € 15
Your workshop ticket allows you to visit the current exhibitions at Kunsthalle Wien free of charge.
The reduction applies to students, seniors, civil and military servants, apprentices and Kunsthalle Wien annual pass holders. This workshop offers a reserved contingent for holders of a ‘Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur’ culture pass.
Writing is a deeply vulnerable and honest activity, it is stronger and more persistent than the spoken word. Working with language also means constantly going to places that can trigger unpleasant feelings. Whether it’s discovering different tools for creating a text or editing (‘kill your darlings’) existing approaches. Writing down our thoughts also sometimes takes us to emotional and even dark places; we have to search within ourselves to find words. Paper is considered the most confidential carrier of our most intimate secrets in diary writing, for example, or in expressing our feelings in a letter. What all these struggles have in common is the gentle and sometimes very obvious ache as we grow, learn, find out more about ourselves and develop further as a result.
Writing with growing pains means truly engaging in a deep exploration of one’s own language repertoire and recognising that everyone has the opportunity to move forward from their own point of view.
Jaqueline Scheiber would like to offer the participants a safer space and create sufficient stimuli in which non-judgemental experimentation and a cautious approach to language and writing are possible. Participation may be hesitant, shy, without prior experience or expectations. At best, however, it should arise from an honest interest in oneself. Because what we write remains.
Autobiographical & Essayistic Writing
The third block focuses on autobiographical and essayistic writing. Using examples from literature, formal and stylistic features are presented and applied in practical exercises. In the final unit, participants will be encouraged to confidently put their experiences and thoughts into text form and to create or refine their expression.
From recognising one’s own voice for the first time, to refining it through techniques, to self-confident expression in autobiographical and essayistic writing, the three workshops build on each other, but can also be attended individually.
Jaqueline Scheiber studied social work and began publishing poetry and prose under the pseudonym minusgold in 2010. She has worked freelance in the cultural and media sector since 2022. In her podcast Die Kunstcouch, she talks to psychologist Can Isyapar about psychological topics and art. Her debut novel DREIMETERDREISSIG was published by Leykam Verlag in February 2025.