XR Sculpture Workshop

WHEN:          10th -12th July 2026
WHERE:        Ganslberg
FOR WHOM: Independant artists

In the former studio of Fritz Koenig, we invite independant artists to an international XR Sculpture Workshop that bridges tradition and the future. At the very place where Koenig created his iconic, powerful forms – reduced, precise, and defined by the tension between gravity and balance – we will explore how his artistic language can expand into the digital realm.

Instead of working with clay, plaster or metal, participants will use virtual materials: in programs such as Gravity Sketch, three-dimensional forms emerge that echo Koenig’s sculptural thinking but extend it into new dimensions. By assembling and transforming 3D models, we will revisit questions of body, space, and void—free from physical gravity, yet inspired by Koenig’s sensitivity to structure and tension.

This workshop offers the opportunity to create your own virtual sculptures—blending craftsmanship, digital art, and sculptural vision—and to carry Koenig’s legacy forward into the present and beyond.

For this workshop we invited artists from Turkey and Bavaria to guide you: Aylin Taslak, İREM ÇOBAN, Anne Kristin Kristiansen and our host: Christian Schnurer. You will find more infos about them below.

The workshop will finish with a Pop-Up Exhibition of the works in progress on the Sunday afternoon.

Places for the workshop are limited. Applications can be sent to hi@xrhub-bavaria.de. The application shall include the following:
– Your name and an overview about your portfolio
– Motivation why you want to participate in the workshop and first ideas
what you would like to explore in the field of virtual sculptures with a view to Fritz Koenig.

Application deadline: 31st March.

The XR HUB Bavaria will provide XR Headsets for the workshop.
You are asked to bring your own laptops.

There is a possibility to stay in a small hotel, the Wasmayr Hof, close to the venue at your own cost. We reserved a number of rooms. Please let us know if you would like to stay in the hotel in your application.

Here are the invited artists who will host the workshop:

AYLIN TASLAK

Aylin Taslak is a sculptor and XR-based creative practitioner whose work bridges contemporary art forms and emerging technologies. She holds both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Sculpture from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, where she developed a multidisciplinary approach combining printmaking and sculpture.
Her master’s thesis, Labyrinth as a Virtual Reality Project (2021), led to the presentation of her VR Labyrinth Project at AKM, Sonar, and the International Izmir Fair.
Since 2020, Aylin has been actively integrating VR, AR, and MR technologies into her artistic practice, exploring how virtual and physical environments can coexist and reshape spatial perception. Her works span sculpture, monoprint, and installation, often engaging with ancient and esoteric symbols reinterpreted through contemporary digital media.
Beyond her studio practice, Aylin has taught courses on XR and design at Istinye University and served as an Event Manager at XR Turkey Community. As the founder of Flixr Studio & Cre-active, she produces virtual assets for brands and fosters collaborations between artists, designers, and technologists. She is also represented by Imoga Art
Gallery in Istanbul.
Aylin is currently pursuing her PhD at Istinye University while continuing her sculptural practice at her studio in Istanbul.
Her recent sculptures were exhibited at the Focus Art Fair held at Saatchi Gallery in London.
You find her works here and her studio here.

İREM ÇOBAN

İrem Çoban is an Istanbul-based media artist, experimental filmmaker, and academic. She is an Assistant Professor at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her works have been showcased internationally in countries including the USA, Japan, the UK, Italy, Spain, Greece, Canada, Germany, China, and South Korea. In 2020, her work received international recognition.
She received the Best Technical Practice Award at the Art Woman 2020 Geo-Graphies Exhibition in Lecce, Italy, with her video piece Tell me my future.
Her filmography includes short and medium-length films that have been finalists and official selections at international festivals: Hear (2019), exploring the theme of child marriage; The Last Performance (2021), which addresses women’s prejudices from a feminist perspective; MYth (2024), an experimental poetic film and Essence (2025) Experimental Short Film (AI-based production).
Çoban’s artistic practice merges new media technologies with alternative narrative forms. She works across video collage, digital storytelling, and experimental filmmaking, incorporating advanced technologies such as augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), 3D/2D modeling, and the metaverse into her practice.
In 2021, during her residency at the London-based Agora Digital Art Residency, she produced the Women in Proverbs series, which was exhibited in a VR environment designed by Metaxu Studio. In 2022, she was invited as an artist to the IMMENSIVA Program at Espronceda Institute of Art & Culture in Barcelona. That same year, her digital modeling piece The Holy Fetus Temple was selected for the 18th Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF | FutuRetro, Online Edition). Her works have also been exhibited at the world’s first NFT Biennial.
She has been a speaker at art and technology platforms such as AWE XR, Crypto Female, Türkiye Innovation Week, and the Istanbul Digital Art Festival, as well as on TRT2, a national broadcast channel of Türkiye. Additionally, In May 2023, she led Gravity Sketch workshops as a visiting professor at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland, and served as the artistic coordinator and workshop mentor at the META SPARK HACKATHON at Facebook Maslak Station.
Her digital art collections Chasing the Hidden, Spiritual Purification, and Unbound Selves are featured on the London-based Sedition Art Platform.
İrem is co-founder of capitArtX , a women-led initiative for digital art curatorship and research, currently active in London, Istanbul, and Dubai.
You find her works here.

ANNE KRISTIN KRISTIANSEN

Anne Kristin Kristiansen studied arts at The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, the Ècole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris and the Freie Akademie der bildenden Künste, Essen. She also did a BA ‘Philosophy and Culture“ at the University of Witten/Herdecke.

She exhibited i.a. at GEDOK, Munich, Kunsthalle Dortmunder U, Dortmund
Group exhibition ‘DEW21 Kunstpreis 2019’, Galerie Hovestadt, Nottuln/Münster – Solo exhibition ‘folding’, KH7, Århus, Denmark, Plivka, Kiev, Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, and different galleries in Copenhagen, Denmark.
You find here works here.

CHRISTIAN SCHNURER

Christian Schnurer studied at the academy of art, Munich. He founded the Studio Mixküche and is a free lance artist curator and art-manager.
2010 he founded the “Halle 6” workshop for Art of all kinds in Munich and he has been President of the Artist Association of Bavaria since 2018.

I.A. he was awarded the Culture Price of Bavaria, the award of the State of Bavaria for visual art, and he was artist in residency at VCCA, Virginia, USA.
Currently he curates the artist programme at the Fritz König estate and supervised the renovation work.
You find his works here.

Programme of the workshop (subject to changes):

Friday 10th July 2026

05.00 pm      Meeting point at Ganslberg and round of introductions 
05.30 pm      Tour of the artist’s estate
06.30 pm      Introduction to the artistic work of Fritz König, Christian Schnurer
06.50 pm      The history of sculpture, Aylin Taslak
07.10 pm      Thoughts on virtual sculptures, İrem Çoban
07.30 pm      Drinks and Food

Saturday 11th July 2026

09.30 am      Meeting point on the Ganslberg and Introduction to the virtual tools and trying it out
11.30 am      Concept development
12.30 pm      Philosophical reflections on sculptures, Anne Kristin Kristiansen
01.00 pm      Lunch
Afternoon    Concept refinement and realisation
07.30 pm      Drinks and Food

Sunday 12th July 2026

Morning     Working on the virtual projects
01.00 pm     Lunch
02.00 pm     Preparation of a Pop Up Exhibition
04.00 pm     Doors open for the public to explore work in progress and talk to the artists