Art Education (Lectures, Workshops, Projects, Tours)
December 2012 - January 2013 Gesammelte Störungen
(Collected Disturbances) - Project with students from the Occupational
School Wolfsburg in the exhibition Save me! Collecting as Artistic
Activity, Kunstverein Wolfsburg
October
2012 Every
subject must be seen, in order to be
(Kaja Silverman 1997) Workshop
for the exhibition Hannah
Höch: Collages 1889-1978
for students of the courses of study film and video. In collaboration
with the Goethe Institute and the Art Institute Bucharest
The goal of the workshop was to offer sustained insights into Hannah
Höch's
method of collage through an experimental
approach.
First, Höch's pages were examined in depth in the Gallery of the
Löwendal Foundation and compared to contemporary processes of digital
image production. The group analyzed the figures that Höch produced
in this way from a formal perspective before becoming acquainted with
their sociopolitical context.
In a next step, composite beings of paper, textiles and cardboard were
produced in groups in the workspace of the Gallery UNA. Since the Gallery
UNA is not located in the same part of the city of Bucharest than the
Löwendal Foundation, the students used this walk from the workshop
to the exhibition space of the Höch Collages for a performative
presentation of their works of living images. Finally,
the three dimensional collages were returned to two-dimensional form
by a professional photographer.
February 2012 Images
of Reality
Continuing Education in collaboration with the Goethe Institute
in Porto Alegre/Brasil for Gerhard Richter's Touring Exhibition Synopsis
of the Institute for International Relations
September 2011 Continuing Education of Art Educators for Bicycle
Tours
Within the framework of the sculpture project viewingspace in the district
of Nordhorn
November - December 2010 Deutschlernen im Museum
(German Language Course in the Museum) in cooperation with ifa Stuttgart
and VHS Stuttgart
September - December 2010 Dies ist keine Kochshow
(This is not a Cooking Show) - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. A project on global
eating habits accompanying the show eat art - with pupils
from Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium and visitors of the Museum.
April
- October 2010 Workshops
with art students in Seoul (South Korea), Daejeon (South Korea), Itami
(Japan), etc., on behalf of ifa and the Goethe Institute, for the dual
exhibition: Otto
Dix. 'War' - the Etchings and Social Criticism: Prints 1920-1924
January 2010 Workshop for Survey,
the ifa traveling exhibition of
works by Gerhard Richter, in collaboration with the Goethe Institute
in Santiago de Chile (Chile)
The 2-day workshop was entitled Bilder
der Wirklichkeit
(Images of reality). The goal was
to investigate questions about the construction of reality through images
and their decipherment, by using the works of the painter Gerhard Richter.
The workshop was divided into productive and reflexive segments. On
the first day, the participants, all of whom had a background in museum
education, developed their own archive using photos they brought from
home. Over the course of their activity, this archive underwent
changes. Individual parts were enlarged or reduced through photocopying
and then colored or graphically manipulated. The resulting new images
were then arranged into a new, larger archive and presented in the museum
alongside the Richter exhibit. On the second day, the works of the participants
and the themes contained therein (pictorial reality, photography and
painting, reproduction and painting, perspective and view, composition
and orchestration, etc.) were the basis for the group viewing that concluded
the session.
May 2008
- July 2009 Lectures
and continuing education for teachers, on behalf of ifa and the Goethe
Institute, for the exhibition: Otto
Dix. 'War' - the Etchings and Social Criticism: Prints 1920-1924
(Tbilisi, Georgia; Nicosia, Cyprus; Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca, Brasov, and
Timisoara in Romania)
Besides giving lectures about Otto Dix's prints from the 1920s (e.g.
War),
I have, for example as part of a seminar in Nicosia, had discussions
with teachers about possibilities for how they can use the Dix's imagery
to reflect upon different portrayals of aggression with schoolchildren
who are confronted with discrimination and violence in everyday life.
The fact that Dix's images are indeed works of art generated a particular
level of attention, through which one's views could be sensibilized,
for example, to matters of human rights. In connection with this, a
comparison to current images from the media was also revealing.
April-May 06 Supervision of the extended training program Kunstvermittlung
von KünstlerInnen (Art education by artists), Kunstverein
Freiburg
April-July 08 Workshop series on the topic of violence in imagery (Cluj-Napoca:
14-16 year-old teenagers, including teenage Romani; Brasov: 3 secondary
school classes)
Excerpt from the ifa
Newsletter 07/2008:
Art needs current forms of communication. The art historian Wiebke Trunk
has accompanied the tour of the ifa exhibition Otto
Dix
for several months, travelling to Tbilisi, Nicosia and Romania. In addition
to Sibiu, Cluj-Napoca and Brasov, Timisoara was one of the stations
in Romania. The topic of violence in images is being revisited
after the killing spree in Winnenden. Portrayals of torture and witch
burnings from past centuries demonstrate that the subject is not new.
Hence the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) has been thematizing
it in special way beginning last year. The starting point is the ifa
exhibition of graphics by Otto Dix, which shows violence in war and
everyday life. Along with introductory talks and lectures, art historian
Wiebke Trunk accompanied the exhibition tour with workshops, which were
also particularly targeted toward young children and teenagers and which
do not merely serve the conveyance of knowledge, but establish up-to-date
connections that reflect the personal surroundings of the visitors and
enable new ways of approaching artworks.
See also the article in the Stuttgarter Zeitung from 18.08.2009, p.26
(pdf,
in German).
Since
July 2006 Museum and studio visits, and workshops for children with
physical and mental impairments from the Karl-Ernst Hermann school (Markgröningen)
In order to further improve the access opportunities in Stuttgart museums
for people with special needs, I regularly work together with children
and teenagers at the Karl-Ernst Hermann school. Unlike at other schools,
for these children it is comparatively difficult for them to leave their
accustomed surroundings because they are dependent on help and special
built conditions in public buildings. Thus visits to museums or studios
take place less frequently. As a result, these children experience this
kind of engagement all the more intensively.
March 2007 Exhibition talks in the exhibit A Room of One's
Own, exchange project Brussels-Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Künstlerhaus
Bethanien, Berlin
The exhibition A Room of One´s Own, which opened 2006
in Brussels, ended in 2007 at Künstlerhaus Bethanien. The tours
through the exhibition were held as public dialogues with
Berlin artists Nanna Lüth, Kerstin Drechsel, and me.
April-September
2005 Art education concept for Sculpture
Biennal Münsterland, in cooperation with the University of
Oldenburg and Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
At Sculpture Biennial Münsterland, current international
art that reacts to specifics of the landscape, architecture, or history
was exhibited in public places. The 2005 exhibition with the title Latente
Historie (Latent history) was organized by Kreis Borken in cooperation
with Künstlerdorf Schöppingen.
My task was to develop ideas for educational communication, together
with art clubs, individuals, schools, local historical societies, and
other cultural institutions, whereby in this concept phase the works
were not yet installed.
One goal was to prepare the population for the planned interventions
in the public realm, and in so doing, to improve the general acceptance
for art on the whole. At the same time, the homepage had to be implemented
with meaningful, well-accessible information, and extensive teaching
material for teachers and other groups interested in the theme of latent
history had to be developed.
April/May 2006 Open workshop - art education for
the exhibition Les Histoires Communes in Künstlerhaus
Stuttgart
October 2005 Art education for the exhibition Unser Viertel
at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart-a photo project by teenagers with an
immigrant background.
1992 - 1997 Freelance employee in the museum education departments
of the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and Kunstverein Stuttgart
Since 1992 Art education: regular tours with groups of children
and adults in museums and galleries; excursions; collaboration with
art teachers
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