Lecture on 30 April, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

The art education movement at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century led to a new departure in pedagogy that continues to have an impact today as a discourse, driving force and myth. In my lecture, I will explore the anti-Semitic origins of this shift in art, education and life and, against the background of this problematic core of my own field, ask about the consequences for a historiography of art and education that sees itself as made and contested - and therefore also as changeable.


Nora Sternfeld is an art educator and curator. She is a professor of art education at the HFBK Hamburg. From 2018 to 2020 she was a documenta professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. From 2012 to 2018, she was Professor of Curating and Mediating Art at Aalto University in Helsinki. She is also co-director of the /ecm - Master's Programme for Exhibition Theory and Practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, part of the core team of schnittpunkt. ausstellungstheorie & praxis, co-founder and partner of trafo.K, Büro für Bildung, Kunst und kritische Wissensproduktion (Vienna) and since 2011 part of freethought, platform for research, education and production (London). In this context, she was also one of the artistic directors of the Bergen Assembly 2016 and has been a BAK Fellow, basis voor actuele kunst (Utrecht) since 2020. She publishes on contemporary art, educational theory, exhibitions, historical politics and anti-racism.