ISR International School on the Rhine joins a China-Germany Art Exchange
ISR International School on the Rhine · 2 min read
NEUSS, 3 November 2026. ISR International School on the Rhine has taken part in the China-Germany Children's Painting Exhibition, an art exchange launched by the Chinesisches Kulturzentrum in Berlin. Thirty ISR art students painted their views of China and of home, and the works will be shown at the school on 6 November.
The Chinesisches Kulturzentrum in Berlin initiated the project and invited ISR to join. The school announced on 29 October that 30 of its art students, guided by art teachers Ms. Henebry and Ms. Schultz, had painted how they see China and how they portray their own home country, city and surroundings.
The paintings were sent to China for the exhibition “Let Dreams Fly: Children's Paintings from Hubei, China and Berlin, Germany”, which opened in July at the Hubei Provincial Library. The Chinese works on show were chosen from almost 1,000 submissions, so the ISR paintings hang beside a carefully selected group of pieces from Hubei.
The exchange also produced a shared artwork. On July 29th, ten children from Hubei worked on two five-metre-long scroll paintings and left sections unfinished, so that children in Germany could complete them. The school describes this as a particularly special part of the project.
“A particularly special part of the project is a collaborative artwork created across both countries.”
ISR International School on the Rhine
The exchange now returns to Neuss. The artworks will be exhibited at ISR on 6 November, giving students, families and staff the chance to see the results of a project that connected classrooms in Germany and China through painting.
About ISR International School on the Rhine
ISR International School on the Rhine provides international education from Kindergarten through Grade 12 in the Düsseldorf, Neuss and Meerbusch region, in a multilingual environment. The school is an IB World School, an accredited member of Cognia and a Cambridge Examinations Centre, and it is authorised to conduct College Board PSAT examinations on campus. It is funded exclusively by tuition fees, and all income is reinvested in the school and kindergarten.
In October, ISR held its Open House on a Saturday at the Neuss campus, with presentations in German, English and Japanese, and introduced the new ISR Elementary School campus in Düsseldorf, which will open in August 2027. Sixteen cooperation partners took part in the day.
What this means for families
For families in the Rhine region, the project shows how art is used at ISR to connect students with other cultures and with their own surroundings.
Families who want to see the campus can attend one of the Saturday Info Days, on November 14th and December 12th, which include an individual kindergarten and campus tour with the admissions team. To compare options in the area, see the International School Advisor ranking of the best international schools in North Rhine Westphalia.
