The Open Studio & Gallery amos is a socio-cultural project of the Kassel Diakonie and a place of encounter for people with and without impairments. The amos offers the opportunity to take advantage of various leisure activities and to be artistically active. In the studio, different art techniques are tried out and taught under professional guidance. In the amos, people can fully engage with art and deal with it.
Two times a week, people meet here to work together artistically. These works of art are shown regionally and nationally in solo and group exhibitions. The amos also includes "Maske Blauhaus in Tinaia", a socio-cultural project in which "savages", i.e. people with psychiatric experience, and "non-wavages", i.e. people without psychiatric experience, can seek and develop their aesthetic forms of expression. The amos project combines the cultural with the social. Art and culture, according to the idea of the studio group, should be part of the everyday world in their aesthetic expression.
