Education Lab Returns to Somerset: ‘Echoes’
Angel Otero in his Brooklyn studio, 2026. Photo: Javier Romero
Education Lab Returns to Somerset: ‘Echoes’
The ‘Education Lab: Echoes’ accompanies the forthcoming Angel Otero exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset and explores how memory shapes who we are.
Developed in collaboration with Museum To You, a Somerset-based charity supporting older adults in care settings and our youth collective, Arthaus, the Education Lab centers on intergenerational exchange and collective creativity.
Community stories, short films and a collaborative memory wall will develop over the course of the exhibition from 2 May – 18 October 2026, alongside a soundscape co-produced with local care home residents, inspired by Angel Otero’s reflections on people, place and personal fragments.
Offering a shared community archive and an ongoing, multigenerational platform for dialogue, the Education Lab connects local voices with international participation through a global digital open call.
Open Call for Films
Be part of ‘Education Lab: Echoes’
Across cultures and places, we all hold onto things that shape who we are: memories, objects, spaces and stories. In response to the work of Angel Otero, we invite you to submit a short film that reflects something meaningful to you—a memory, a place, a person, a feeling.
Selected films will become part of a fast-paced audio-visual experience in the Education Lab and shared across our digital platforms during Angel Otero’s exhibition in Somerset from 2 May – 18 October 2026. Inspired by Otero’s fascination with memory and the small pieces that tell a bigger story, your film can be simple, poetic, documentary or experimental.
Submission Deadline: Sunday 29 March 2026
‘What is one thing you keep close?’— Angel Otero
Submission Form
About The Education Lab
The Education Lab is part of the gallery’s commitment to inclusive learning programs that instigate a dialogue between art, artists and diverse audiences. Located at our galleries in Downtown Los Angeles, Menorca and Somerset, as well as the Chillida Leku museum, each Education Lab is a collaboration with a local community group, school or university. The interactive spaces take their starting point from one of our international artists, facilitating a platform for discovery, discussion and additional resources.
About Angel Otero
Angel Otero makes his UK debut this spring, featuring a deeply personal body of work completed during an artist residency in Somerset. Known for his physically immersive approach to paint as material, Otero transforms the medium itself—scraping, layering and peeling dried oil paint to create richly textured compositions that hover between abstraction and figuration. Moving his studio practice from New York and Puerto Rico temporarily to Somerset, the residency offers a unique opportunity to observe Otero’s ongoing exploration of memory, place and meaning in the context of a new environment.
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