Mai Abu ElDahab: What were we saying?
Tobias Rehberger: We were discussing the idea of the art school.
Florian Waldvogel asked me to write about what could be the ideal school.
I thought that that should be easy because I have a strong idea of what I think and what I’m doing with my students at Städelschule.
But it’s actually quite complicated because I’m not doing something fixed with my students;
I’m doing many different things with them without having a clear pedagogical focus.
You see, with each student it’s completely different.
Rehberger: To one student I have to speak
this way, and to another student I have to
speak another way. I have approaches which
are more productive than others, but only to
a certain extent. I would never decide that a
particular model would produce a good artist.
In the end, the students decide for themselves
how to be good artists because a school
is about forming something that doesn’t exist
yet, something which the students themselves
have to discover.