little ART is a nonprofit organization to promote the creativity of children and adolescents. Our headquarters are in the Munich Künstlerhaus. Here we offer free workshops and exhibitions every day. In addition, we design and implement projects in the entire Munich city area and beyond. Together with over 250 partners from all over the world, we also implement international art actions and projects.
As a non-profit registered association, we have been acting exclusively on the basis of donations and funding since 2004. We have been promoting creativity under the name little ART since 2006. We have reached over 100,000 children since then. Every day there are more.
What we believe in.
Every single person has unlimited creativity and positive creative power inside. The artistic process creates access to this energy. Art is the bridge between nations, cultures and religions.
In all areas of life, our society needs people who can make sound decisions, take responsibility, find new ways; who take care of themselves and others. Only together can we create a future that is humane for everyone.
little ART promotes the intellectual, emotional and artistic development of children and young people around the world. In the context of art projects, an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue is created, which shows people new ways of a respectful and peaceful coexistence.
Who participates.
little ART is made up of a team of artists, art educators, culture managers and designers. They develop the projects and supervise them until the finished artwork. With their passion and commitment, they drive the goals of little ART forward.
Pursued as the founder and director of little ART Elena Janker For years the mission has been to give children access to their own creativity. Elena Janker has been artistically active since her youth. Many national and international projects with thousands of children demonstrate their unique way of working. She curated and realized exhibitions with the resulting works both in her own direction and in collaboration with well-known curators, museum directors and designers.
In addition to working intensively with children, Elena Janker teaches trained teachers, aspiring art teachers and parents how to promote children’s unique personal creativity.
Klaus Mecherlein M.A. is an art scientist, exhibition curator, author and lecturer. He is the initiator of the European Art Award EUWARD. After studying art education and art history at the University of Munich, he became the founder of Atelier Augustinum in 1992, a studio community for outsider artists, which he still leads. From 2009 to 2019 he was chairman of Eucrea e.V. He is the author of various international exhibitions and publications. Mr. Mecherlein is chairman of little ART and supports the association with his know-how.
Judith Egger studied communication design at the University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg and in Preston, England. In 2001 she graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with the Masters of Arts. Since then she has worked as a freelance installation and performance artist in Germany and abroad. She loves artistic intervention, open-ended experiments and process-oriented work in a wide variety of media. It is therefore a great pleasure for her to discover and share this enthusiasm and creative freedom with the children. In her projects she likes to work with other people, be it in artistic collaborations in theater, music and performance or in an interdisciplinary way.
Elli Hurst is a graphic designer and artist. After her graphic design training in Karlsruhe, she worked as an art director in various advertising agencies. Since 2006 she has worked almost exclusively as a freelance artist with her own studio in the Wiede factory in Munich. Since 2013 she has been the initiator of the short time GALERIE, a temporary art gallery / project space with a salon character. She teaches and leads artistic creative workshops at several children’s and youth institutions and regularly participates with their Works at exhibitions.
Agnes Kindsmüller studied art education, art history and European ethnology with a Magister Artium degree in Munich and Augsburg. She is also a qualified Montessori educator. At little ART she enthusiastically manages art projects from little ART at special education schools in Munich with enthusiasm and art pedagogical skill.
Irene Menz-González is a freelance artist and goldsmith. After an initial training as a designer for jewelry and equipment in Schwäbisch Gmünd, she then graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 2000 with a diploma in goldsmithing and sensitively leads creative workshops at little ART with children and adolescents Munich primary and secondary schools. The focus of her art education work is to support children in transition classes with little or no knowledge of German about the language of art.
Alexandra Rohrmeier studied theater, music and art education at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. With a lot of heart and joy she leads the creative workshops for kindergartens and primary schools at little ART. Awakening and promoting children’s curiosity for art is at the forefront of their art tours in the historic Munich Künstlerhaus.
Felicia Schauner is currently studying art as a teacher at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. During a nine-month internship at little ART, she deepened and expanded her unique ability to work creatively with children through in-depth specialist knowledge. With great enthusiasm, serenity and a bubbly vigor, she implements creative projects with children and youth around. Felicia is a permanent member of the little ART team.
Theresa Hauf completed her Bachelor in Art History and Comparative Cultural and Religious Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich in 2016. After an internship at little ART, she was taken on by the artist team.
Where is our home?.
Little ART is based in the Munich Künstlerhaus at Lenbachplatz 8, 80333 Munich. We called our premises there "Utopia Space" because it is an idea that only became real with the support of the Munich Künstlerhaus Foundation and the help of numerous people and companies.
‘Utopia Space’ is a multifunctional space for creativity. It is a gallery for children’s art, a creative workshop and a stage for theater, music and dance in one.
With NASA gray walls and a stage design based on a cockpit, the spatial concept of "Utopia Space" corresponds to that of a spaceship. The architectural design comes from the American architect Elizabeth Wang-Lee, who worked for Norman Foster, among others.
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