8 years art studies in Paris, a city full of seduction, flirting, gender-roles, paintings, photos and sensuality created in me the desire to explore and embody some of those famous old, but still up to date paintings. Like "The Origin of the World" by Gustave Courbet 1866, "The Lunch on the Grass" by Edouard Manet 1863.

How would it be exploring with our bodies our desires and thoughts through these historical paintings, as a woman, a man and as any gender that wishes to explore? How is it to be watched posing as “The origine of the world”? To present your genitals in such a beautiful, glamorous, prominent way? How to watch someone’s genitals presented so beautifully? How does it feel to pose as a model? As a model in an already existing image? To be a part of its history, its sensuality, its scandal, and its universality? To feel the identity, the interaction with other? To be observed? Then maybe try to bring yourself into the picture? To feel what that does, to feel what is important now, what becomes possible ...

How is it to have your body arranged so precisely? To be arranged for the purpose of beauty? How is it to help to arrange a body? To be able to see a painting from every angle? To observe real people posing? To walk around? To do some sketches?

In the beginning we will have a look at the painting and its story and explore what happens looking at the painting. Then there will be time for posing.

First time I gave this Workshop was in Vienna 2013 …