Co-creation Committees

The Kunstideenwerkstatt (art ideas workshop), alongside the children's advisory board, is a co-creation body open to all children outside of school and kindergarten. Here, children help shape the KinderKunstLabor with their wishes, concerns, themes, and ideas. They contribute their input for current and upcoming exhibitions, take part in deciding how art is mediated, how artworks are positioned, and what poster designs look like.

It focuses on the following questions: How do artists work? How is an exhibition created? What does art have to do with democracy? What is a lab and what can happen there? How does a museum communicate with its visitors?

Children contribute their views and perspectives and work with the artists and the KinderKunstLabor team on questions related to museum operations and current and planned exhibitions. They later see the results reflected in the space itself.

The Children’s Advisory Board operates within various educational institutions. Comprised of entire school classes and kindergarten groups, it serves a key body for co-creation at the KinderKunstLabor. The children work on topics and ideas for the KinderKunstLabor in artistic workshops that take place during their class time.

Thanks to longstanding partnerships with schools, kindergartens, daycare and after-school care centres, it is possible to carry out comprehensive projects over an extended period of time. In this context, artists who work with the KinderKunstLabor provide insights into their work in workshops and talks on site.

In this respect, the Children’s Advisory Board represents a complex feedback mechanism, which allows diverse concerns and ideas to be taken into account and where the creative processes and imaginations of those involved can unfold. The results of the artistic work with the Children’s Advisory Board groups are incorporated into decision-making processes at the KinderKunstLabor. As a reflection and expression of children’s perspectives and opinions, they have great impact on the further development of the new institution’s programme.

Current Participating Institutions

• Lower Austria State Kindergarten Dr. Rudolf Kirschläger Straße St. Pölten, 27 children, Barbara Erhabor (2023-25)
• Lower Austria State Kindergarten Lettnergasse/Traisen, 13 children, Manuela Siedler-Fahrngruber (2024)
• Lower Austria State Kindergarten Lilienfeld, 17 children, Elke Gratzl (2024)
• Lower Austria State Kindergarten Pottenbrunn, 25 children, Karin Kitz (2023-24)
• Lower Austria State Kindergarten Ratzersdorf, 25 children, Erika Wirtner (2020-24)
• Lower Austria State Kindergarten, 19 children, Anita Schuster (2020-24)
• Otto Glöckel Primary School, 2b from 2023/24, 19 children, Katrin Barta (2022-2024)
• St. Pölten Sports Secondary School, 1r from 2025/26, 22 youth, Bernd Schneider (2020-2026)
• Daniel Gran I Primary School, 4b from 2024/25, 17 children, Dilek Güler-Kuzu (2025)
• Daniel Gran II Primary School, 1a from 2025/2026, 23 children, Sabine Buss andAngela Gföhler (2025-2027)
• Franz Jonas Primary School, 3c from 2023/24, 17 children, Madeleine Hofer (2022-2024)