Július Koller

• Amant, New York (US)
• 20.03.–17.08.2025

On Education brings together works by 35 international artists that engage with the subject of education from unconventional perspectives. This exhibition resists the utopian narratives and aims that often frame art’s engagement with pedagogy, instead foregrounding the traumas and forms of violence—both real and symbolic—that are intrinsic to the process of being educated. On Education examines the mechanisms of surveillance and control that structure spaces of learning, explores artmaking as a potential tool for counterhegemonic resistance, and interrogates the social and cultural conditioning of childhood and child-rearing. It acknowledges the precarity and challenges of learning in an environment of constantly disrupted attention shaped by endemic underfunding, spiraling culture wars, unsustainable debt, and the lasting impacts of racism and colonialism. At the same time, in tracing these conditions, the exhibition also gestures toward alternative, more productive models for the future.

Exhibiting Artists: Emanuel Almborg, Frank Baniwa and Escola Viva, Cristine Brache, Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Hanne Darboven, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Kasia Fudakowski, General Idea, Jef Geys, Michela Griffo, Susan Traditional Woman Hudson, Tetsuya Ishida, Mike Kelley, Graziela Kunsch, Marc Kokopeli, Július Koller, Brad Kronz, Ghislaine Leung, Paul McCarthy, Gordon Parks, Carissa Rodriguez, Jacob Riis, Ilene Segalove, Amber Rane Sibley, Laurie Simmons, Sable Elyse, Smith, sgp, Stefan Tcherepnin, Betty, Tompkins, Philip Wiegard with Kathy Seitzinger, Hepburn, Laura L. LePere, Andrea Victoria Paradiso, Denise Pinnell and Amy Sutryn

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