Description
Join a small group at Studio Margret Wibmer for a unique course using art to explore today’s urgent social and environmental questions. Through dialogue, reflection, and encounters with works by internationally renowned artists, participants develop new perspectives, strengthen critical inquiry, and discover how creative thinking can shape everyday life, work, and community.
A space for deep thinking, exchange, and connection — not a lecture-based course.
Dates: 9, 16, 23, 30 June 2026
Time: 19:00 – 21:00
Location: Studio Margret Wibmer, KNSM-laan 153, Amsterdam (Loods 6)
Language: English
Price: €250,–
Max. 8 participants
Artists whose works are among those that may be shared include Otobong Nkanga, Arthur Jafa, Amanda Heng, Ibrahim Mahama, Skarma Sonam Tashi, John Halpern and Emily Harris, Ei Arakawa-Nash, Carolina Caycedo, Guadalupe Maravilla, Dries Verhoeven.
There are no specific requirements. Participants from various backgrounds are welcome. Previous courses included participants from fields such as sustainability, social equity, green finance, human rights, artists, art educators, curators, researchers, psychologists, and others.
This course is offered by Studio Margret Wibmer in collaboration with the Institute for Cultural Activism International.
Contact Margret Wibmer for more info: info@margretwibmer.eu
Week 1
Introduction to a unique method of thinking through art rather than simply looking at it. Guided by selected works from artists currently featured in the Venice Biennale, we will explore how art can guide us in reflecting on the condition of our world, open space for new perspectives, and imagine alternative ways of relating to the social and environmental challenges of our time. Together, we will begin building a shared space for dialogue, reflection, and constructive exchange.
Week 2
The artists introduced in this course focus on process rather than final outcome, revealing the close connections between people, community, and the environment. Through a deep exploration of a selected artistic practice, we will reflect on themes such as the body, slowness, ritual, materiality, and togetherness, and consider how art can shape new ways of relating to the world around us.
Week 3
We will focus on our relationship with images and the role they play in shaping how we see the world around us. Through selected artistic practices using photography and video, we will reflect on perception, awareness, memory, and the ways images influence our understanding of social and political realities.
Week 4
For the final session, Margret Wibmer will introduce one of her own long-term projects. Combining installation, sculpture, costume, conversation, hospitality, and participatory elements, Salon d’Amour explores perception, relation, play, and social conventions through artistic practice and collective experience. Participants will have the opportunity to handle and closely explore original materials from the project — including masks, costumes, objects, and manuscripts. The session will conclude with shared reflections on themes and questions that emerged throughout the course.
ABOUT MARGRET WIBMER
Margret Wibmer who runs Art for Impact since 2022, in her studio in Amsterdam in collaboration with ICAI, is an internationally exhibited artist, participatory art producer and art educator, with a broad knowledge in contemporary arts and breaking developments in the field. She has many years of teaching experience in The Netherlands and beyond. Since 2020 she is adjunct lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore. In 2022 she joined the Institute for Cultural Activism International (USA) as collaborator, performer and board member.