How to View an Artwork is a workshop that playfully dissects the rituals of looking at art. With a touch of irony, participants rehearse the familiar gestures of exhibition-going: the tilted head, the narrowed gaze, the thoughtful step back—learning a repertoire of “how to” rhetoric and body language (practical part).

Alongside this, short theoretical inputs introduce key ideas around the reception of artworks, questioning how meaning is produced between object, context, and viewer (theoretical part).

Finally, the workshop engages directly with the artworks in the exhibition itself, where conventions such as eye-level hanging are disrupted and “authorized” viewing positions are f.e. replaced by a mobile bench on wheels. Visitors are invited to actively choose their vantage point, shifting from passive spectators to self-determined viewers (applied part).