Name: Constanze Eckert
Areas of Work: Artist and Art Educator
Lives in: Berlin
Website: www.eckik.org
                www.kulturagenten-programm.de


Her many projects over the years locate her practice on the fringes of the arts and education system.
Diploma in art therapy and art pedagogy at the FH Ottersberg; MA at the Institute of Art in Context, University of the Arts, Berlin; Erasmus grant at the Research Centre for Contextual, Public and Commemorative Art, University of the West of England, Bristol; Co-founder of arttransponder, Berlin. Over the last few years art education projects, workshops, teaching positions and further education projects with emphasis on teachers and artists. Artistic-scientific supplementary research includes the model test Intersection Art – Education, run by the regional association of art schools of Lower Saxony at the Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg (2005-2007). Project management of the model test Art-Space-Memory. On the connection of historic learning, cultural-pedagogical practice and contemporary artistic strategies at holocaust memorials for the education association IJBS Sachsenhausen (2007-2008).

From July 2011 responsable for the qualification of 46 cultural agencies within the new Culture Agency Programme, Berlin.
For details please see http://www.kulturagenten-programm.de.

Since 2008 eck_ik Agency for Working with Art Berlin with Anna Zosik.
Further information at www.eckik.org

 

Lecture "On the Tension at the Edges and Why Dust Balls form Right There" by Constanze Eckert, August 18, 2011, Stadtgalerie PROGR Berne