Lecture on 9 July, 10:15-11:45 a.m.

Production conditions characterise educational concepts and mediation practices in art education of their time. They are often unreflected and unconsciously inscribed in formats, spatial situations and institutions. The age of performative leadership and curriculum design in the didactics of the arts urgently needs a material change in its theorisation. This dialogue-based lecture critically analyses the connections and encourages us to break new ground.


Prof. Dr Sabine Gebhardt Fink, studied art and cultural studies, theatre studies, philosophy and modern German literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of Basel. Doctorate in Transformation of Action, University of Basel 2002 (2003 Passagen Verlag Vienna). Subsequently lecturer and researcher at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts ZHdK(Ambient in der Kunst der Gegenwart: Passagen Wien 2012) and guest lecturer at international universities. Since 2012 Professor of Contemporary Art and head of the Master Fine Arts - Majors Art Teaching, Art in Public Spheres and Critical Image Practices at the Lucerne School of Art and Design. Research project on artistic mediation Camp# (2012-2016) in co-operation with the Lucerne Art Museum, co-initiator of the Lucerne Art Education Roundtable (2020); Matura expert for visual arts and board and founding member of the Swiss Society for Art Education.

Publications in the subject area:

Gebhardt Fink, S. "Art Teaching as Critical Practice" (co-authored with Jean-Pierre Grüter, Alexandra d'Incau, Peter Spillmann) in What's next? Ed. Torsten Meyer/ Gila Kolb. kopaed Munich: 2015: 103-105.

Sabine Gebhardt Fink "Artistic Education Can Storm the Museum. Performative Strategies and Activism in the Research Project Camp#" Ed. with Wolfgang Brückle Lucerne: University of Applied Sciences and Arts (2019): 14-19.

Elisabeth Nold Schwartz (*1974) completed classical dance training at a young age before studying theatre and dance studies at the University of Bern (graduated in 2011). In June 2020, she completed a Master of Arts in Fine Arts with a specialisation in Art in Public Spheres at the Lucerne School of Art. Her master's thesis "Co-Being. theoretically. practically." dealt with postmodern community discourses both artistically and theoretically.

Elisabeth Nold Schwartz lives in Glarus and is interested in art in the Alpine region, a topic she would like to explore in greater depth in a PhD project.

Elisabeth Nold-Schwartz and Sabine Gebhardt Fink "Pedagogical Trajectories" Introduction together with Elisabeth Nold-Schwartz and Lena Eriksson. In: Number 19, SFKP, e-journal, December 2020, sfkp.ch/artikel/editorial-1.