The Educational Web at the Kunstverein in Hamburg hosted eight schools, educational organisations, and independent study programmes which define themselves as alternatives to the traditional art academy and have established key positions in today’s field of contemporary art. Often with strong theoretical positions, each programme could be characterised as a space of learning, a network, and community that revolves around an immediacy, based on a relationship between artistic practice and locale. Art unfolds in these settings as social practice where the site functions simultaneously as an environment of production and a space of critique and reception. Each participant was asked to exhibit their educational or pedagogic framework and thereby reflect the intersection of pedagogy, artistic practice, and curatorial work.

Artists, researchers, and educators came to explore these intersecting currents during the symposium held on 1 and 2 July 2023, in order to articulate and critique recent developments in artist-led pedagogy and institutional practice. The symposium extended the inquiries of the exhibition through a series of contributions nowreworked and assembled here within The Educational Web: Reader for the first time.

With texts by Luis Camnitzer, Feza Kayungu Ramazani, Maria Lind, Ghislaine Leung, Christian Nyampeta, Sofía Olascoaga, Emily Pethick, Laurence Rassel, Anja Steidinger, Nora Sternfeld, Prodige Kevin Tumba Makonga, Marina Vishmidt, and Mi You.

Edited by Milan Ther und Dr. Martin Karcher.