The conference “art thinking doing art. Artistic Practices in Educational Contexts from 1900 to Today” opens a historical as well as contemporary investigation of the interrelationships between art education, art production and ideological contexts. With contributions from scholars from twelve different countries, this project takes a uniquely broad perspective on the question of art education by also epistemologically situating the process of art “knowledgization” * in broader discussions on the (inter-)materiality, (counter-)institutionality, (trans-)disciplinarity of artistic practices, and by using empirical case studies to examine their historical dimension in diverse geopolitical contexts for the period from ca. 1900 to the present.