Experience

Georg-Kolbe-Museum
• Germany
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Kuratorin für Bildung, vermittlung und Outreach

  • Feb 2023 - Present

Freiberuflich
• Germany
• Technology, Information and Media
• 700 & Above Employee
• Kunstvermittlerin

  • Jan 2006 - Present


DOCUMENTA 12 KASSEL

• Art Educator / Kunstvermittlerin

  • May 2007 - Oct 2007

  Once again, “documenta” sought to achieve the intrepid aim of both exploring the potential of exhibition-making in a new way and furthering the (aesthetic) education of its audience. For Roger M. Buergel, artistic director, and Ruth Noack, curator of “documenta 12”, the exhibition was not simply a display area for art. They viewed it above all as a medium: an open, formable realm of possibility that is shared by the art and its audience. The process of aesthetic education was perhaps less a matter of acquiring factual knowledge than of developing and exploiting one’s own emotional and intellectual resources. The “documenta 12” exhibition offered art education and mediation in a variety of different forms and formats, all of which encouraged this kind of direct engagement and invited visitors to share in the experience and exploration of the art on show. Next to classical formats, such as tours for prebookers or open guided tours, “documenta 12” had special guided tours for children and youngsters, as well as barrier-free guided tours. The guided tours of the exhibition, which lasted a minimum of two hours, made regular stops at the “circles of enlightenment” (Palmenhain). This was a designated area within the exhibition space devoted to the concentrated study of and collective engagement with art. While visitors could expect the art education programme to provide informative inspiration, it could not establish absolute truth. Realising that art can never be fully explained was one of the experiences that visitors to “documenta 12” were intended to make, because this is where the true power of art ultimately lies. Show less