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With her Support Structures, Céline Condorelli changes how we understand and use institutions.
Revision -part II consists of a modular system of six newly produced units that visitors can easily move around. The mobility of the structures allows for flexibility in terms of usage and function. In this vein, visitors and employees of the Kunstverein alike can generate numerous scenarios by collectively utilising the structures to their needs.
The project thus transforms the entrance area of the Kunstverein into a learning environment for testing out ideas around spectatorship, engagement and participation. For example, the units can be connected to construct a performance space or an ​​auditorium, joined together to create a communal workspace, or simply be used as a place to rest. Revision -part II thus plays with historical and contemporary learning contexts, where the arrangement and appropriation of elements is part of the learning process.
Activated by ongoing cooperation with the art historical, sociological and pedagogical faculties of the University of Heidelberg – the latter represented by members of the board of the Kunstverein – the project explores the relationship between exhibition and pedagogy through different disciplines.
Originally, Revision -part II was designed by Condorelli as a spatial context for a provisional and alternative art academy. A place for individuals to become students, experiment with different learning practices and investigate the possibility of reinventing the classroom or lecture format where learning usually takes place.
While the individual elements of the installation appear fixed in their formal and physical coherence, the relationship between them is dynamic and mobile. Hence, the identity of the elements transforms in the course of their movement and appropriation by the users. This means that a visually unified object can nevertheless be used as a sculpture, an office, a learning space, an archive, etc.
The objects and their setups are not answers to questions but rather form spaces of action where a problem can be negotiated and worked on.

Educational Turn and Revision -part II at the Heidelberger Kunstverein
A range of art projects that foreground the pedagogical led to the so-called Educational Turn in the 2000s. (Cf. e.g., Paul O’Neill & Mick Wilson, Curating and the Educational Turn (Open Editions/de Appel, 2010)). Whereas educational activities have always been part of the programs of exhibition venues, they mainly held a subordinate role. The Educational Turn describes educational formats becoming the primary concern in artistic and curatorial practices, as seen in numerous art institutions, but also in the context of biennials and temporary projects.
Revision -part II at the Heidelberger Kunstverein by Céline Condorelli acknowledges these developments and situates itself in this context.
The project is accompanied by various measures to open up the institution, such as free admission to the Kunstverein’s exhibitions from June onwards.