From March 27 to 31, 2025, a 21-member Chinese delegation of art teachers from ten different provinces visited Berlin to get an insight into what cultural education has to offer. A visit to the Nelson Mandela School on March 26 kicked off with a visit to a class in the “Textile Art and Design” profile course (Y9). Afterwards, the profile and concept of the Nelson Mandela School and in particular the interdisciplinary potential of art lessons were presented. The group was then accompanied on a sightseeing tour in Berlin-Mitte. On March 27, we had planned a project day with two artists in Charlottenburg Palace and on the premises of the Community Art School Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf (JKS CW), which was successfully carried out. Afterwards, the delegation visited other museums in Berlin. On March 28, the Chinese art teachers accompanied us to the Neue Nationalgalerie, where a training session on strategies for interpreting pictures was held for them. The Chinese guests were impressed by the curricular possibilities that our school system offers to teachers, and by the wide range of low-cost offers from Berlin's cultural institutions. The Chinese teachers all run private youth art schools that give children and young people in their home country access to art production and individual artistic expression.
Florentine Baumann (Head of the Art Department)