Vitruvian Man: Tekenworkshop & Lecture Performance
From 3 October 2026

Vitruvian Man: Drawing Workshop & Lecture Performance

What does it mean to be a man and where did we learn that?

This question has fascinated artist Raziel Perin for years. Drawing, painting and performing have become his ways of navigating this complex question.

Through two public events in October, Perin invites us to dig deeper and actively engage with the ideals, expectations and stereotypes we have inherited and have had an impact on the way we see and relate with our genders. These are opportunities to not only sit together and talk, but also to listen to our bodies and explore through words, gestures and images, what being a man means to us all.

3 October

  • Lecture/Performance
  • #Think along

Through this event, Perin shares the research behind his latest work and his engagement with the Wereldmuseum’s photography and material collections. Departing from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, his project brings together art history, popular culture and Afro-diasporic spiritual traditions. This broad range of sources shapes a journey through time and place, were he inquires how ideas about male body, power and race have shaped the way we see ourselves and others.

This is an event to experience with both body and mind, a journey that will take us through recordings, notes, images, places, peoples and emotion’s that have become part of Perin’s own inquiry to what it means to be a man. And, as the journey unfolds, we will get an insight into how his inquiry becomes shape, color and form in his drawings, paintings and performances. 

Together with the Curator of Photography, Valeria Posada-Villada, Perin will invite the audience into an open space for conversation, movement and play, where questions will lead to unexpected answers.

Practical information

  • Location: Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Workshop Studio
  • When: 3 October
  • Times: 14.30 to 15.30, doors open at 14.00.

Sunday 4 October

  • #Make your own
  • Drawing Workshop

In this hands-on workshop, Raziel Perin invites participants to explore some of the questions that have driven his research through drawing. Through a series of simple exercises inspired by objects from the Wereldmuseum collection, participants will look at ideas around strength, care, vulnerability and power, and how they shape the way we see and connect to our bodies. Touch and sight become our allies in this scenario as we explore our connection to the ideas and images we have inherited.

Participants will draw, reflect and share their experience in a collective setting, weaving together a space to question old expectations and imagine other ways of relating to each other.

No drawing experience is needed. Everyone aged 12 and over is welcome.

Practical information

  • Location: Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Workshop Studio
  • When: 4 October
  • Times: 14.00 to 16.00, doors open at 13.30.

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