The symposium takes this anniversary as an opportunity to re-examine art education in the context of social, institutional and technological transformations. Museums are evolving into spaces for negotiation, participation and the production of knowledge.
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Lina Lapelytė. We Make Years Out of Hours, Ausstellungsansicht Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, 2026
The symposium brings together international perspectives from theory, research, practice and artistic work to discuss forward-looking models of art education.
Attendance is free of charge.
Programme
Welcome, 9.00 am
Till Fellrath, Director, Hamburger Bahnhof – National Gallery of Contemporary Art
Introduction to the symposium
Claudia Ehgartner, Head of the Education and Outreach Department, will present the conceptual framework of the symposium and the day’s programme.
Keynote speech, 9.30 am
Dr Bernadette Lynch, University College London
Art Education and the Urban Public, 10.45 am
Dr Janna Graham, Senior Lecturer in Curating and Programme Director of the BA degree programme in ‘Curating’, Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Nora Sternfeld, Professor of Art Education at the HFBK Hamburg, Co-Director of the Master’s programme ‘/ecm – Exhibition Theory and Practice’ at the University of Applied Arts Vienna
Moderator: Prof. Elke Krasny, Professor of Art and Education, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Discussion, 11.45 am
Lunch break, 12.00
Museums of the Future: Strategy & Responsibility, 2.00 pm
- Prof. Dr Susan Kamel, Professor of Museum Studies at HTW Berlin, Department of Design and Culture / Museology and Museum Management and Communication
- Angeli Sachs, art historian, curator and museologist, Berlin
- Dr Oliver Tewes-Schünzel, sociologist and research fellow at the Institute for Cultural Participation Research (IKTf), Berlin
Moderator: Prof. Dr Mona Jas, Artistic Director, KinderKunstLabor for Contemporary Art, St. Pölten, Honorary Professor at the weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
Discussion, 3.00 pm
Coffee break, 3.15 pm
Human, Machine and Mediation (AI), 4.00 pm
Dr Shusha Niederberger, Lecturer in Contemporary Network Cultures at the F+F School of Art and Design, Zurich, and Lecturer in Critical Theory at the Basel University of Art and Design FHNW
Julian Harbort MSc, founder and head of business development at nuseum.ai, Vienna
Moderator: Christian Larsen, Managing Director of the EDI Global Forum, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
Discussion, 5.00 pm
Conclusion: A critical perspective as commentary, 5.15 pm
Dr Emiel Heijnen and Dr Melissa Bremmer, Professors of Art Education, Amsterdam University of the Arts
Additional information
Dates
November 2026
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