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