“Art Mediation between Attitude and Responsibility. The Volkswagen Group Fellowship for Art Mediation at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg“, is edited by Susanne Pfleger, Gila Kolb und Konstanze Schütze. This publication documents the Volkswagen Group Fellowship for Art Mediation at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg from 2017 to 2020. The goal of the ongoing one-year fellow- ship is to give art mediators on the verge of starting their careers the opportunity to pursue their inquiring questions and innovative ideas in a research-based manner at a renowned institution. It explicitly promotes experimental formats of mediation and research in order to test, reflect and describe innovative methods in art mediation. In addition to describing and reflecting on the individual projects, the publication offers handouts and analyses on current questions of art mediation around the topics of „care and responsibility,“ „knowledge and epistemic injustice,“ „dealing with hierarchies,“ and „conditions of digitality.“

Four authors (Silke Ballath, Katharina Klappheck, Elke Krasny, and Nora Sternfeld) have responded to the topics of the field reports of the three fellows CARE LESS (2017/18), Jelena Toopeekoff (2018/19), soppa/bleck (2020/21) and accompanied the contributions from their reflexive and theoretical practice. Thus, the publication covers a broad spectrum of mediating practice, art pedagogical research, and forms of knowledge. The collection exemplifies how art mediation meets contemporary societal challenges. The German version of this book was published in German in 2023 as: „Kunstvermittlung zwischen Haltung und Verantwortung. Die Volkswagen Fellowship für Kunstvermittlung an der Städtischen Galerie Wolfsburg“, edited by Susanne Pfleger, Gila Kolb and Konstanze Schütze and is available here: https://kopaed.de/kopaedshop/?pg=1_11&pid=1423