What happens when you give museum audiences a stack of pencils, a few sheets of paper, and an entire room lined with white paper? Dresden artist Artourette did just that as a part of the Children's Biennale at the Japanisches Palais.

Anna-Lisa Reith from the Dresden State Art Collections in conversation with Carsten Krebs (Head of Communications Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH), Dr. Robert Franke (Office for Economic Development of the city of Dresden) and Kevin Bauch from Fridays for Future Dresden.

Anna-Lisa Reith from the Dresden State Art Collections in conversation with Carsten Krebs (Head of Communications Volkswagen Sachsen GmbH), designer Daniel Huber, traffic psychologist Lisa-Marie Schaefer (TU Dresden), psychologist Jens Schippl (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Florence Thurmes (Curator of the Children's Bienniale – Embracing Nature).

It is one of the most fascinating works at the Children's Biennale: Thijs Biersteker's installation "Wither". Yet the work has a more serious background. The delicate, semi-transparent artificial leaves light up in a rhythm that depicts the deforestation of the rainforest in the Amazon. How does this work? We asked the artist.

Anna-Lisa Reith from the Dresden State Art Collections in conversation with Carsten Knoll from Bits&Trees, the local network for digitalisation and sustainability in Dresden, and Kevin Bauch from Fridays for Future Dresden.

Marijke van Warmerdam’s work Eiskugel – quite literally an ice ball of ∅ 25 cm – is a modest piece that might have been somewhat simple if it weren’t also slowly melting in the gallery space. Jane Boddy on the tremendous energy put into the production of a clear, carved piece of ice currently on show at the Children’s Biennale "Embracing Nature" at the Japanisches Palais.