Arts and Crafts

"Culture is a human right. It leads from the rule of necessity to the sphere of freedom."
Kent Nagano

What is also learned through art can become anchored in the brain as a positive experience. Music, art and theatre have a long tradition at the Obermenzinger Gymnasium.

Open Atelier

– for all grades without registration

Here, you can work, craft, discover, and check using various materials, either freely or under supervision.

The path is the destination. The path to fine art is a path to oneself, even if something unplanned emerges later. A common thread in the wilderness of unrealized ideas that are made visible and tangible here.

SpielArt (Kulturnachmittag, Cultural Afternoon)

– one of three elective courses in the cultural afternoon in the 5th and 6th grades

This is less about acting than about learning important social skills through play. Management and team building workshops are now peppered with theatre exercises. The reason for this lies in both its simplicity and its noticeable effectiveness.

Our children experience a connection to nature through land art, grounding through meditation or dream journeys, creativity in working with their hands and inspiration in storytelling. Stories develop through making masks, pantomimic body work in fabric tubes, shadow play with rod puppets. Feelings are given space in conversations, dialogues can emerge, even a film can be edited from the material.

Kunst Leistungsfach/Arts, Advanced subject (Q11 and Q12)

The option to choose a higher level of difficulty in the subject of art is a tradition at the Obermenzinger Gymnasium. Part of the advanced level includes visiting the workshops at the Academy of Fine Arts, building canvases, painting with oil paints, developing performances, making short films ... depending on the dynamics of the course.

Choosing the performance level means 4 hours of art with a practical focus in the upper grades. The small course offers a family atmosphere and better individual support.

Anyone who decides to attend the advanced level of art chooses art as the so-called “3rd written Abitur examination subject” and thus has the opportunity to focus on artistic and practical work in the Abitur.

Museen und Galerien

The Obermenzinger Gymnasium regularly visits the extensive range of museums in Munich with its students. We work with the City Museum and the Pinakothek museums, among others. Communication through, with and about pictures in museums helps children and young people to relax and participate with all their senses, whether in the museum or at school.