Art pick: School Days

The Czech artist Eva Kotatkova brings an unsettling edge to this exhibition of art made in and about schools. In her video piece Sit Straight (2008), torturous-looking but physically harmless constructions force two young children to sit bolt upright. Her ongoing Walk to School (Drawings) series is populated by children who cry and vomit en route. But it’s not all misery. Ronan McCrea’s School Play project includes life-affirming photographs and a joyous sound loop of children playing in the space he created at an Educate Together school in Dublin. Annette Krauss’s Hidden Curriculum project is wonderfully subversive and often hilarious. In one of her videos, shot in a Dutch high school, students push past enormous potted plants that block the corridor, occasionally laughing, but mostly oblivious to or simply accepting of just one more seemingly senseless obstacle in their school environment. Works by Eamon O’Kane, Corin Sworn and Raimond Wouda also stand out in a show that proves education is all about what happens in the spaces in between.