Secret Arts Teachers 11 Sep –
27 Sep 2026
Exhibition: Secret Arts Teachers
From 11 to 27 September 2026, Framer Framed presents Secret Arts Teachers, a group presentation in which the classroom enters the exhibition space. The exhibition is the result of an international project by the Art Education research group at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, in which art teachers use their teaching practice as an artistic workspace.
In Secret Arts Teachers, art teachers work on the basis of a single shared question: what does art look like when you create it at the heart of the classroom, together with students? The project is based on the concept of the Teacher as Conceptual Artist, in which the distinction between teaching and making art is blurred. Teachers share their own artistic practice with the students and treat the classroom as a temporary art collective. The students are co-creators and the learning process itself is part of the work. On display in the exhibition are the surprising outcomes of these experiments, ranging from playful assignments to activist interventions and forms of (deliberate) failure.
Secret Arts Teachers was initiated by the Art Education research group organised by the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK) and brought together twenty art teachers from primary and secondary schools across the Netherlands. During various meetings in Amsterdam, they exchanged experiences, developed new teaching methods and took part in inspirational sessions led by artists and theatre makers. This gave rise to new educational assignments that allow room for uncertainty, play and failure, ranging from activist actions to the forgery of a masterpiece.
Guided by guest curator Kevin van Braak the exhibition explores the question of how art and education relate to one another when they are not approached as separate spheres, but as something that, in practice, constantly intersects and evolves.
Opening
Friday 11 September 2026 at 16:00
Info & Credits
Admission is free; a voluntary donation is appreciated.
Opening hours
12 to 27 September
Tuesday to Sunday from 12:00 to 18:00
Location
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
Amsterdam
Secret Arts Teachers has been curated by the Art Education Research Group at the Amsterdam University of the Arts (AHK), Framer Framed and Kevin van Braak, and is made possible in part by the ELJA Foundation and the Cultuurfonds.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; the Municipality of Amsterdam; and the VriendenLoterij Fund.
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