Events

Time and Location

March 20 – August 17, 2025
Amant (Brooklyn, NY)

About

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.

For more information: On Education at Amant

This event is supported through the JFNY Grant for Arts and Culture.