Pedagogy of Hope: In direction of a museum of studying
After dedicating its 2024–25 program to exploring new curatorial codecs within the fields of cultural manufacturing and creative heritage—by means of the long-term initiatives Pondering Like a Mountain and Galassia—in 2026 GAMeC will proceed its experimental path resulting in the opening of its new constructing, devoting all the 12 months to the theme of training, seen as shared studying and a instrument for emancipation and social transformation.
What data, abilities, and important skills are wanted to know and rework up to date actuality? What pedagogical practices and approaches foster autonomy, duty, and important considering, even in contexts that “educate” us routinely by means of algorithms and digital flows? How can dialogic and participatory processes combine with museums’ disciplinary experience? And the way can the wants of numerous audiences be introduced collectively and valorized so as to assemble inclusive and progressive cultural narratives and academic practices? In different phrases, educate for what? And the way?
Below the course of Lorenzo Giusti, GAMeC’s 2026 program stems from these questions, drawing inspiration from the considering of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, providing a reinterpretation and replace of his concepts.
A everlasting laboratory: training, dialogue, sharing
The core of the 2026 program would be the interdisciplinary Public Program, that includes contributions from specialists in pedagogy, case examine analyses, and contributions from artists engaged in integrating visible analysis with academic practices, in addition to workshops devoted to experimenting with new methodologies and strengthening relationships with the area people. The dialogue between humanistic and techno-scientific tradition shall be a cross-cutting characteristic of this system, impressed by Freirean pedagogy.
Fosbury Structure at Palazzo della Ragione
Through the summer time, Palazzo della Ragione in Bergamo will host a site-specific set up by Fosbury Structure. Identified for its multidisciplinary apply—starting from the reuse of present buildings to momentary installations, exhibition design, publishing initiatives, curatorial actions, and academic applications—the collective will rework the house right into a modular panorama, designed to welcome completely different audiences and adapt to the assorted cultural actions shaping this 12 months’s program: not merely an exhibition show however an energetic platform inviting reflection on training as a relational gadget.
Ana Silva and Selma Selman at Spazio Zero
Two exhibitions by worldwide artists shall be offered in GAMeC’s Spazio Zero, opening respectively on February 25 and October 1. The challenge by Angolan-Portuguese artist Ana Silva (Calulo, 1979) addresses the world disaster of entry to ingesting water. Conceived for the exhibition house, it’s developed in collaboration with a community of native embroiderers, invited by the artist to intervene in a few of her textile works. Within the manufacturing of her items, Silva initially entrusts the themes she designs to Angolan embroiderers—the place solely males are allowed to make use of stitching machines—earlier than finishing the works herself by hand, including ornamental parts. The language of embroidery—historically related to care, reminiscence, and resistance—is employed by Silva to delicately denounce water shortage and reveal a actuality during which water is a privilege reasonably than a proper. Every sew silently bears witness to a basic want that’s denied, emphasizing the distinction between the fragile gesture of embroidery and the dramatic nature of the topic.
The site-specific challenge by Bosnia and Herzegovina-born Romani artist and activist Selma Selman (Bihać, 1991) continues her exploration drawing on private and household experiences to analyze identification, social hierarchies, and conflicts amongst completely different types of data, revealing the gaps between official narratives and oral traditions. For Selman, artwork represents a type of resistance and sharing. Her work is predicated on the “study to unlearn” precept, opening new horizons of understanding and creating areas during which to experiment with alternative routes of figuring out. For the artist, training additionally represents a instrument of emancipation and self-determination, particularly in patriarchal contexts akin to that of her neighborhood of origin. This led her to determine the “Get the Heck to College” basis in 2017, by means of which she gives monetary help to Romani ladies to allow them to finish major college.
Radio GAMeC and new actions for the general public
Radio GAMeC will proceed its actions with a brand new platform devoted to training. Via the voices of artists, researchers, and professionals working within the subject of training, the radio will provide narratives and dialogues on up to date creative and academic practices, confirming itself as a spot for reflection and change open to new views.
All year long, workshops in addition to guided and thematic excursions devoted each to momentary exhibitions and the museum’s Collections will contain guests in shared studying experiences, adopting new experimental practices, thus strengthening GAMeC’s position as an academic hub within the Bergamo territory.
