The Learning Institution
Depending on changing requirements, conditions, and the needs of children and society, the KinderKunstLabor is designed to grow in content and continue developing as a learning institution for contemporary art. Experiences and insights from its processes are transferred through specially developed formats.
To further develop the KinderKunstLabor’s programs and offerings for different functions and intergenerational groups, continuous reflection, feedback systems, and adjustments are necessary. Approaches to specific forms of curating and art mediation are therefore tested and reflected upon with smaller groups. Events serve as impulses that can be used within development processes to align the foundations and scope of action with constantly changing conditions.
Additional activities and formats include analysis and exchange on archiving and documenting artistic projects and exhibitions, empirical-qualitative research approaches – including connections to Artistic Research – conferences, online and print publications, workshops, and professional training.
The goal of these research activities is the reframing of curating and art mediation in the following areas:
- Connecting practice and theory
- Children’s sense of belonging to an art institution and their right to participate as cultural citizens
- Nonverbal and sensory-physical dimensions of aesthetic experience
- Interactions and relationships