Garage School

Kari Robertson (she/her, Scotland) is an artist, researcher, and educator based in Rotterdam. She completed her BA at the Glasgow School of Art and MA at the Piet Zwart Institute in 2016. She currently teaches at the Willem de Kooning Academy, specializing in system change, decolonial, and critical ecology for artists and designers. She works independently and collaboratively across varied disciplines and contexts, including exhibition making, experimental pedagogy, and participatory events.  

Santiago Pinol (he/him, Colombia) is an art educator and undisciplined artist moving between Rotterdam and Bogota (Col). He works at the shoreline of art and education, sometimes independently but mostly in collaboration. Whether through installations, interventions, or informal, ephemeral schools, his aim remains constant: to provoke critical reflection, inspire discourse, and foster dialogue. BA and MA from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2010, some of his recent projects include: Making-worlds @ Stiftung-kuenstlerdorf, Schöpingen. Radical Symbiosis: The Social Life Of Microbes @ Radius. Delft. The international day of no abstraction @ SGR Gallery, Bogota. Currently works in the Critical Studies Minor at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. spinyol.com 

Garage School is a nomadic art and education collective that creates temporary schools in response to specific contexts, blending theory with practice to foster collective learning. Kari Robertson and Santiago Piñol developed the Garage School of Medicine (GSoM) during the BAK Research Fellowship for Situated Practice (2023-24). GSoM strives to imagine and prototype conceptions of health and healing that are democratic, holistic, preventative, collective, and hopeful. We strive to amplify and develop practices which support the social body, focus on community care, and address threats to collective resilience. Garage School of Medicine has worked with Paviljoen aan het Water, Gemaal op Zuid, Grondstoffen station, Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries, Reading Counterpower, take-a-way, Doe Het Zelf werkplaats, Varia, Het Nieuwe Instituut, and is currently curating CLiP #7: The Garage School of Prepping Otherwise at Kunstinstituut Melly.