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Where the work has been shown, and where some of the workshops happened, since 2009.

2023 to 2025

AIR Open Artist Residency

AIR Open Artist Residency, Ubud, Bali

4–10 January 2013

Connected Creativity

Bangkok Art and Culture Centre

An exhibition of collaborative work made with children in Chonburi province, Thailand, in art workshops at the local school, part of a collaboration with the artist residency Thaillywood that began in early 2012.

Visitors lay on mats to watch the D.A.S. documentary projected above them.

D.A.S. Project

Two long walls of children's drawings hung in rows in the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, with one visitor kneeling in front of them.
Connected Creativity, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, January 2013
Four adults lying on mats inside a large circle on the floor, looking up at a film projected overhead, with a man standing beside them.
D.A.S. documentary viewing, Connected CreativityBangkok Art and Culture Centre

Opened June 2012

Exhibition at Thaillywood

Thaillywood Contemporary Artist Residency, Thailand

CRE8's first exhibition in Thailand combined individual works from different countries into collective pieces.

It opened with a short film about the D.A.S. Project.

D.A.S. Project

A white gallery room: a wall hung with rows of photographs on the left and, beyond a free-standing white wall, a wall of children's drawings in rows.
Exhibition at Thaillywood, Thailand, June 2012

September 2010

Abracadabra

Barcelona, Spain

An exhibition of CRE8 work in Barcelona.

2010

  • A girl squeezes green glue onto her paper, coloured pencils beside her. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • People sit on pink chairs in a bookshop listening to a man standing at the front. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A woman looks at a wall of colour photographs of children. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • Children and adults drawing at white tables with a tray of pencils. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • Hands from both sides drawing on one sheet on a white table. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A girl holds up her pink drawing in front of a wall of pinned drawings. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A boy in a yellow shirt holds up his drawing of a green alien on blue. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A girl at a white table holds up her drawing of a green alien on orange ground. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
All 12 photos from Barcelona, Spain
  • Black and white portraits hang at different heights in a white room. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A white wall hung with rows of small children's drawings on wooden pegs. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A large black and white portrait of a smiling girl hangs in a doorway. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.
  • A pink Abracadabra banner outside a shop window. Barcelona, Spain, 2010.

Flickr album: “Abracadabra Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain”

7 August 2010

The Most Realistic Alien at Goldmund Festival

Goldmund Festival, Biesenthal, Germany

A CRE8 workshop at Goldmund Festival in Biesenthal, the day after Spielraum: people held up their aliens in front of a wall of drawings.

The Most Realistic Alien

March 2010

Art Exhibition

Ramana's Garden, Rishikesh, India

At the end of a week of workshops, the children showed their drawings and photographs to everyone who came, hung all over the garden and in the trees.

2010

  • A boy looks back from a tree trunk while another boy climbs it. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Two boys stand beside a large printed banner propped against a bamboo fence. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • A boy kneels on a red floor, drawing with a black pen. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Black and white portraits hung on an old tree and a stone house. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Three people hold framed black and white portraits in front of their faces. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Colourful paintings pegged on a line along a stone veranda. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Black and white portrait photos pegged on lines between trees. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • A girl points at a hand-written sign reading Beauty Parlor, a young woman beside her. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
All 12 photos from Rishikesh, India
  • People sit on mats in a long bamboo hall facing a green hanging cloth. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • A tangle of young people hugging and laughing in a bamboo hall. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • Adults and children play together in a crowd outdoors, a boy leaping. Rishikesh, India, 2010.
  • A woman looks at drawings pegged along a stone wall. Rishikesh, India, 2010.

Flickr album: “Art Exhibition Rishikesh, India”

March 2009

The Magic Tree

Rishikesh, India

An exhibition in Rishikesh with workshops for children. Black-and-white portraits hung together in a tree: The Magic Tree.

2009 and 6 August 2010

Spielraum Gallery

Spielraum Gallery, Reichenberger Straße 28, Berlin

Spielraum Gallery was at Reichenberger Straße 28, Berlin: a gallery and cultural space with live music, exhibitions and cultural events. Ole Ukena hosted CRE8 workshops there, and part of it was at times his studio.

The first Most Realistic Alien took place there in 2009: a drawing competition. Draw an alien, and the most realistic one wins. Ping Pong Painting workshops happened there too. On 6 August 2010 children drew aliens there again.

The Most Realistic AlienPing Pong Painting