This exhibition explores the relationship between art and education, focusing on experiences built up over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in Argentina. These experiences were driven by pioneering artists, educators and teachers and also encompassed projects to democratise knowledge organised by institutions and their outliers with the same egalitarian, experimental and transformative roots.

The projects and archives assembled here bring out the ways in which art can contribute to the common good by facilitating people’s participation in forging deep bonds, both with each other and with the world. This view of artistic production is relational and underlines the image’s power as a tool to intervene in individual and collective learning.

These pedagogical initiatives set out to overhaul traditional viewpoints from within the field of art and beyond its disciplinary boundaries by restoring listening and empathy in the teacher–pupil relationship.

Can we change the routine modes of formal education through artistic practice? Is it even possible to teach someone to be an artist? Is it feasible to place the body and the emotions at the centre of education? Building on questions like these, the exhibition supports the idea that learning and imagination are key in trying out new ways of living together.

Artists: Diana Aisenberg, Andrés Aizicovich, Bachillerato Mocha Celis, Ernesto Ballesteros, Mundiarte / Bienal Internacional de Arte Infantil y Juvenil de Avellaneda, Norah Borges, Campamento Artístico Curatorial, Centro Educativo Isauro Arancibia, Olga y Leticia Cossettini, Cromoactivismo, Marina De Caro, Claudia del Río, Mirtha Dermisache y las Jornadas del Color y la Forma, Lucas Di Pascuale, Tomás Espina, Leonel Fernández Pinola, Taller de plástica del Frente de Artistas del Borda, Silvia Gurfein, Graciela Gutiérrez Marx, Hecho en Buenos Aires, Federico Jorge Klemm, Guillermo Kuitca, Nicolás Martella y Manuel A. Fernández, Diego Melero, Rosario Vera Peñaloza, Emilio Pettoruti, Amalia Pica, Proyecto Secundario Liliana Maresca, Emilio Renart, Revista Ramona, Marcela Sinclair, Eduardo Stupía, Marta Traba y Edgardo Antonio Vigo

(Curated by: Jimena Ferreiro, in collaboration with Alfredo Aracil. Exhibition Design: Iván Rösler. Production: Julieta Potenze)