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Katharina Seewald: Encountering documenta 12
Encountering documenta 12
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Katharina Seewald

Encountering documenta 12

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  • contemporary art
  • museum
  • documenta
  • art education
  • education
  • curatorial practice
  • public sphere
  • exhibition
  • art
  • pedagogy

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Katharina Seewald

trained as a financial administrator, and (after completing her high school degree, the German Abitur, in adult education) she studied social pedagogy, certified pedagogy, certified psychology, and even medicine for a few semesters. She worked as a freelance consultant for organizations and subsequently was the education advisor for the DGB Bildungswerk in Hessen. She then served as the director of the Youth Education Center in Fulda and became the regional chairperson for the DGB in North Hessen. Since 2007 she has been working as the
director of the combined Continuing Education Center for the Region of Kassel. She was a member of the documenta 12 advisory board.

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Ayse Güleç (ed.), Claudia Hummel (ed.), ...: documenta 12 education I
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Ayse Güleç (ed.), Claudia Hummel (ed.), Sonja Parzefall (ed.), Ulrich Schötker (ed.), Wanda Wieczorek (ed.)

documenta 12 education I
Engaging audiences, opening institutions Methods and strategies in education at documenta 12

Translated by Helen Ferguson, Nathaniel McBride, Karen Michelsen Castañón, Laura Schleussner and Erik Smith

Softcover, 214 pages

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»Cultural Education« is much debated. It is pivotal in sustaining a sense of community in a society that is constantly shifting. A space where differences can be explored, art exhibitions act as a superb medium for cultural and aesthetic education. They don‘t aspire to peace and harmony but to stage controversy. They enable multiple models of communication, open to dissent and rupture.

Education is situated in tension between public sphere and institution, amateur and professional, artist and audience. Its development needs felicitous examples as well as rigor in discussing problems towards identifying practical solutions.

»documenta 12 education« presents in two illustrated volumes the education formats with concomitant research, providing a basis for developing theory and praxis of gallery education.

These volumes are an ideal resource for people working in the fields of curating exhibitions, gallery education, youth work and cultural policy. People less familiar with cultural work will find in these books a valuable introduction to the field of gallery education.

Volume 1 gives a comprehensive and richly illustrated survey of formats and models of education and collaboration with the public at documenta 12.

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