Open ateliers are family-friendly workshops held every Sunday afternoon from 3–6 pm at rotating venues throughout the duration of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. These drop-in sessions are free of charge and need no prior registration. These Open Ateliers invite visitors of all ages to engage playfully and intuitively with the exhibition’s themes, materials, and questions.

Inspired by the concept and title of the 13th Berlin Biennale exhibition passing the fugitive on, artist Ercan Arslan will be creating postcard collages together with participants during two Open Studio Sundays. The process begins with drawings left behind by visitors during the “hang-out moments.” These motifs can be combined with magazine clippings, photographs, and participants’ own drawings and images, and transferred onto blank postcards to form new compositions.

In this setting, the postcard becomes a connecting element: it preserves memories and associations, transforms them into an artistic object, and sets them in motion once again. As both individual and collective traces, the postcards are passed on—or mailed—released into the world as fleeting testaments to creative exchange and shared imagination.

Ercan Arslan is a freelance artist working in painting and sculpture. After studying painting in London, he relocated to Berlin, where he currently lives and works. His works are exhibited internationally and are part of both public and private collections.