Registration with the Fienta ticket
Group size: 6 people
For adults
Fee: 40 euros
Duration: 26.–27.07. from 10 AM to 5 PM
Meeting spot: next to Kadaka bridge, 10 AM. The exact location will be shared with participants.
Location: Harku forest 

The Estonian-Georgian collective Garbage Kids workshop takes participants into the wild to introduce their practice philosophy while working with found materials in the urban forest. The two-day-long workshop consists of sourcing materials, a walking lecture and crafting with the gathered materials, introducing the basics of carpentry techniques that are at the core of the Garbage Kids practice.

The materials that Garbage Kids use in their work are sourced and hand-picked during walks in Georgia and Estonia. The workshop walk in the Harku forest offers a glimpse into their practice and provides insight into the philosophy surrounding their work – the driving force of frustration with the society that aims towards endless growth in conditions of limited resources, overconsumption and lack of knowledge about the materials surrounding us. Instead, Garbage Kids pick up the knife, the chisel, and the axe every day to stubbornly rebel against the brainless consumerist industries’ bestiality, gathering forgotten materials and working with slow tools, to create one-off pieces that embody the vernacular knowledge from both Estonian and Georgian cultures.

The workshop will examine and explore various natural materials in the urban forest and their potential to be transformed into a chair, a tool, or an object. The participants are taught how to source, work with, and understand raw materials, how to let the material guide the design process, and how to work with simple and accessible carpentry tools to create basic wood joinery often used in Garbage Kids’ works.

Each participant is invited to bring lunch and water for the picnic during the workshop.

The workshop is held in English.

Important to know. During the workshop, tools such as axes, knives and other sharp equipment will be used. The museum will provide the equipment. Participants are responsible for their safety.  

The workshop is part of the exhibition’s “Garbage Kids. Shadow Objects” public programme. 

Garbage Kids is an Estonian-Georgian collective consisting of Luka Abashidze (1993), Ulla Alla (1994) and Nika Gabiskiria (1992). Their background is architecture. Ulla Alla graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts, and Luka Abashidze and Nika Gabiskiria from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts. Garbage Kids was formed in 2020 alongside their work in architecture when they sought an alternative that was independent of others and a practice that allowed a free creative process. 

Garbage Kids design and create unique or limited-edition collectable furniture pieces and objects. They have previously presented their work at the Obscura platform in Tbilisi (2022) and the Why Not Gallery (2024), Milan Design Week (2023, 2024), the Roma Diffusa festival (2023), and the NADA House exhibition in New York (2024). They also designed the exhibition space and furniture for an exhibition called “Dear Friend” at EKA Gallery (2022).