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Hilma af Klint "The Five"

Explore theory and methods used in Hilma af Klint's circle "The Five" in this workshop of automatism, color theory, symbolism, and spiritual abstraction.

Who is Hilma af Klint?  

Schedule

Date: Friday June 5th, 2026
Time: 8:30-10pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park, East Village
Price: $40 
Date: Friday June 12th, 2026
Time: 8:30-10pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park, East Village
Price: $40 

Date: Friday June 19th, 2026
Time: 8:30-10pm
Location: Tompkins Square Park, East Village
Price: $40 (20% Early Bird Discount)

What will you do?

1. Learn

Learn spiritual abstraction theory and methods of Hilma's séance circle "The Five"
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2. Draw

Practice automatic drawing techniques.

3. Shape

Study symbolic shapes and how Theosophy is used in abstractions.

4. Color Theory

Learn how Hilma used color to communicate complex ideas.

5. Create

Practice automatism, symbolism, color theory, and spiritual abstraction.
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6. Experience

Participate in a reenactment of "The Five" session in Tompkins Square Park, East Village.
Note:
We are not presenting this reenactment as a supernatural or religious practice. We are reenacting the structure of The Five’s creative process. The activity is designed as a historically inspired creative exercise connected to Hilma af Klint’s artistic methods.
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Who is Hilma af Klint?

Hilma af Klint

(1862-1944)

First known work

Still Life, 1886
Seated Girl, 1887
Summer Landscape, 1888
Portrait of Herve Ruut, 1889
Self-Portrait, 1890
Winter Landscape, 1891
Coastal Landscape, 1892
Morning, 1894

"The Five"

In 1906, Hilma af Klint forms a séance circle called "The Five" where she develops automatism, color theory, and spiritual abstraction.
Early drawings from "The Five"
"De Fem" Drawings
"De Fem" Drawings
"De Fem" Drawings
"De Fem" Drawings
"De Fem" Drawings

Paintings for the Temple

Hilma af Klint begins a series of artworks that map a journey from birth to spiritual unity and beyond. She decreed it to be released 20 years after her death. Includes collections The Ten Largest, The Swan, The Dove, Evolution, and Altarpieces.
No. 1, Childhood
No. 1, Childhood
No. 2, Childhood
No. 2, Childhood
No. 3, Youth
No. 3, Youth
No. 4, Youth
No. 4, Youth
No. 5, Adulthood
No. 5, Adulthood
No. 6, Adulthood
No. 6, Adulthood
No. 7, Adulthood
No. 7, Adulthood
No. 8, Adulthood
No. 8, Adulthood
No. 9, Old Age
No. 9, Old Age
No. 10, Old Age
No. 10, Old Age

The Swan

This series of 24 works is an abstraction and transformation of forms. The figures become increasingly abstract and geometric until the very last painting that revisits figuration. The color palette conveys the dualities of male and female, the human condition, and stages of life or death. -The Guggenheim
The Swan, No. 1
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 2
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 3
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 4
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 5
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 6
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 7
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 8
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 9
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 10
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 11
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 12
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 13
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 14
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 15
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 16
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 17
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 18
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 19
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 20
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 21
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 22
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 23
"De Fem" Drawings
The Swan, No. 24
"De Fem" Drawings
Altarpiece, No. 1, 1915
"De Fem" Drawings
Altarpiece, No. 2, 1915
"De Fem" Drawings
Altarpiece, No. 3, 1915
"De Fem" Drawings

Artwork Spotlight

Altarpiece, No. 1, 1915

"The Altarpiece series aims to translate complex spiritual concepts into visual form with color, symmetry, and shape carrying meaning rather than depicting the visible world."
-Curator Tracey Bashkoff

"De Fem" Drawings

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Hilma af Klint "The Five"

Explore and exercise automatism and spiritual abstraction methods of Hilma af Klint's "The Five"
Tompkins Square Park, East Village

Helen Frankenthaler

Explore landscape abstraction theory and "soak-stain" technique of Helen Frankenthaler.

St. Mark's Place, East Village

Jackson Pollock

Explore and exercise theory and methods of Jackson Pollock.
St. Mark's Place, East Village

Der Blaue Reiter
(Blue Rider Group)

Explore theory and methods of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and The Blue Rider.
St. Mark's Place, East Village

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