The Idea behind “The Classroom”

Karol Radziszewski gives an introduction to the exhibition “The Classroom” in an interview with Ulf Eriksson, Curator Learning.

Ulf Eriksson: My name is Ulf Eriksson, and I am Curator of Audio-Visual Learning at Moderna Museet. I had the opportunity to speak with artist Karol Radziszewski during the installation of his exhibition “The Classroom” here at Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Karol, thank you for joining us. To begin, can you please tell us how the idea for “The Classroom” came about?

Karol Radziszewski: I work a lot with the archives of central and eastern Europe, and it’s become a big collection of objects and stuff. And many times, I was presenting this in exhibition spaces in vitrines.

So, with the classroom, this whole installation idea was to get out of the museum and make it more accessible, but also to play with how the archives could be seen by the people.

And then the whole idea of the classroom (is also) getting back to how the knowledge is distributed, and how the kids, teenagers, including me, are taught the history in the past. That was the basic idea for the whole project.