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The Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern (mpk) has recently begun to critically review its own exhibition, collection and communication practices. This includes questions in the fields of de-colonisation, involvement of urban society and arts education. Two groups of art education students were asked to support this process on the basis of their individual views and expertise. The students provided critical assessments of, among other things, the canon on display, the atmosphere of the room, individual paintings and the overall appearance of the museum. They temporarily took over the museum's Instagram account and developed written interventions that are now part of the presentation in the museum. In an intense collaborative process, they fundamentally re-curated the room where art since 1945 is on show.
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Marc Fritzsche has been Professor of Art Education at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany, since 2018. Prior to this, he worked as a teacher for eleven years and was a research assistant at the University of Giessen, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on interfaces in art education. For many years, he was head of the international department of the German Federal Association for Art Education, and has realised various exhibitions, lectures and publications in Germany and abroad.
