Frankfurter Kunstverein - Schulstudio

SCHULSTUDIO – Art Education at the Frankfurter Kunstverein

The Frankfurter Kunstverein’s mission is to inspire critical discussion about contemporary art as a means of addressing social-political and intercultural issues. Its central aim is to remove inhibitions and cultivate confidence and understanding in dealing with art today. An important aspect of this work is providing opportunities for “learning through art.”

In May 2010, the Frankfurter Kunstverein initiated the educational program SCHULSTUDIO, which is oriented towards high school students. Since then the institution has been cooperating with schools from the area on projects that are thematically related to its current exhibitions and that span a period of several weeks. Within this timeframe the young participants are guided by two art educators, Susanne Hesse and Katja Schöwel, in their approach to selected topics. The main thrust of the program is to engage in dialogue with young people who are beginning to orient themselves in the world, in order to facilitate creative processes and exchange in relation to contemporary art. Meeting and working directly with young international artists provide a unique opportunity towards this aim. Each project unit concludes with a public presentation of students’ work.

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SCHULSTUDIO #3, students discussing their project

SCHULSTUDIO provides a comprehensive and critical exploration of socially relevant issues and leads to a confident approach to contemporary art and international and intercultural perspectives. This is made possible through:

• leaning about artistic working methods originating
from different cultural contexts,
• engaging with different forms of presentation and
media in contemporary art,
• taking a look behind the scenes of the art world.

Student experiences are further developed as:

• individual, actual works of art,
• reflections on the works produced,
• a public presentation of these works.

To ensure that the projects are relevant to what the students are learning in school, the content is developed in cooperation with participating teachers in relation to their lesson plans. The length and dates of the project units are scheduled directly with interested teachers.

In addition to these SCHULSTUDIO programs, individual project days are offered in the context of an exhibition. Such days may be scheduled individually.

Contact: Susanne Hesse - Badibanga and Katja Schöwel, schulstudio@fkv.de

SCHULSTUDIO is nominated for BKM-Price für cultural education 2012.
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SCHULSTUDIO is sponsored by the Aventis Foundation as part of its cultural initiative “eXperimente.”