Calendar

Participating artists:
Mit Beiträgen von Michael Annoff, BARarchitekten (Antje Buchholz, Jürgen Patzak-Poor), Elke Beyer, Sabine Bitter, Antje Buchholz, Arne Bunk, Evan Calder Williams, Fraser McCallum, Filipa César, Inga Danysz, Nuray Demir, Christopher Falbe, Dina Dorothea Falbe, Guests & Hosts, Gregor Harbusch, Marshall Henrichs, Claudia Hummel, Ana Hušman, Jakob Jakobsen, Ana Paula Koury, Monika Mattes, Larry Miller, Maria Helena Paiva da Costa, Silke Schatz, Dubravka Sekulić, Lisa Schmidt-Colinet, Alexander Schmoeger, STREET COLLEGE in Kooperation mit Käthe Wenzel, Maurice Stein, Alexander Stumm, Oliver Sukrow, Ola Uduku, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Sónia Vaz Borges, Helmut Weber, Florian Zeyfang, Francesco Zuddas

Venue:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10
10557 Berlin


In 1957, the Soviet Union sent a satellite into orbit, winning the first stage of the "space race. The West responded to the "Sputnik shock" with an unprecedented education offensive that soon dominated social debate.

Bildungsschock looks at the decades following the Sputnik shock, in which education expanded on a global scale. The exhibition and two publications show how the spaces of learning were permanently rethought and planned under the pressure of demographic and technological developments, the Cold War, and the 1968 movements.

In collaboration with artists, scientists and architects, curator Tom Holert explores this era of experimentation and conflict. In the midst of the Corona crisis, which makes pressing problems in the education sector acutely visible, he proposes to discover the approaches of the 1960s and 1970s as an archive and resource for current debates.

Accompanying the exhibition, the project Education in Concrete goes to eight Berlin schools. Here, students together with artists* engage with their school buildings from the 1960s and 1970s and speculate on the learning environments of the future.

The Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art is developing an extensive film program on the themes of the exhibition.