CV
I work as a curator, researcher, and designer focusing on context-related, socially engaged, and participatory art. After finishing my dissertation about the traveling biennial Manifesta, I conduct research on the aftermath of large-scale cultural events in local social environments. My curatorial work revolves around collaborative practice and embedding artistic projects in social and political contexts. I am keen to explore different ways of practice at the boundaries of curation, mediation, design, and qualitative research.
- Education
2026: Doctoral thesis submitted. Bauhaus-University Weimar. Being Present Without Being There – Boundary Agents in Socially Engaged and Participatory Art at Manifesta – A Stituational Analysis.
2020: Studies, Qualitative Methods, University of Montana, Department of Social Sciences, Missoula MT, USA
2010: Degree, Master of Fine Art – Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2009 / 2010: Exchange studies, Oxford Brookes University, Contemporary Art and Music
2009: Exchange project, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Bauhaus Labs
2007: Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Design, FH für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Hall - Grants / Awards
2026: Cultural Bridge for collaboration between Germany and UK, project “Office for non-efficient Development”.
2025 / 26: Stiftung Kunstfonds, Plattformen, Funding for the curatorial platform “Biennial of Care”.
2025: Beyond Now – Umwelten, Funding, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for a research seminar and curatorial project.
2025: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2024: Funding by the city, region and district, Hannover for the curatorial project “Home Repair”. In collaboration with Stiftung Leben & Umwelt / Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Niedersachsen
2023 – 2025: Thüringer Graduiertenförderung, Scholarship for doctoral projects by Bauhaus Research School and the federal state of Thuringia.
2023: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2021 / 22: DAAD “International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC)” grant, together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland (principal researcher) and the department of Art and Research at Bauhaus University-Weimar. Title: Public Arts Garage – Transnational Tinkering in Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Public Art.
2021: Grants / funding for the „Garage“ Community Exhibition Project by the German Consulate General San Francisco, Montana Arts Council (funded by the State of Montana and the National Endowment for the Arts) and others.
2020: Grant, DAAD Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden (short-term scholarship for doctoral candidates)
2011 – 2018: Grants/funding for several projects in the field of art and culture, for example, by the federal State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Ulm
2012: Short-term residence, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2009 – 2010: Scholarship, Förderverein der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Design / Cultural Concepts
2017 – 2019: Hahn15, co-founding of an agency for cultural concepts and spatial design. Development and realization of several projects, for example, International Embassy 2018, urban intervention, and interdisciplinary civic dialogue at the boundaries of social research, participatory art, design, and digital exchange, commissioned by the city of Ulm, Germany (concept, design, coordination, and realization) - Curatorial Work
2025-26: The Biennial of Care, a traveling platform for aftercare of project-based cultural events.
2024: Home Repair, series, participatory projects and artistic research responding to multiple crises, Hannover
2022: Virtual Tinkering, poster exhibition at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Belfast, UK
2021: Garage, community exhibition project in digital exchange between international artists and local communities in Missoula, MT, USA
2013 – 2019: Griesbadgalerie Ulm, project space for context-related and
interdisciplinary art (director, principal curator)
2018: Sister’s Summer, Exhibition series featuring women at the boundaries of art and urban environment, Ulm
2018: International Embassy, Citizen dialogue about participation of international citizens in the urban community
2017: Alles muss raus, Exhibition series with artistic interventions in public space, Ulm
2017: Disorder(s) in Beirut, Exhibition of an interdisciplinary art project as part of 35. congress of children and youth psychiatry by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie (DGKJP) in Ulm
2016: Café Beirut, Exhibition project and social exchange through contemporary art from the Middle East, Ulm
2014: Stiege Ulm, project for reappropriation of urban wasteland, art space in a previously closed public staircase built into the historical city wall in Ulm (Initiation and artistic concept)
2013: Kunst für Alle! Exhibition series participatory art/intervention in public space, Ulm
2012: Kultur Fahrschule, temporary use of a former industrial site as cultural space (co-founding and artistic concept), Ulm - Urban Intervention
2008 – 2016: Artistic interventions in public space, development and realization of artistic projects, independent and in the frame of exhibitions for example for KloHäuschen Biennial, Munich, Künstlerdorf Shöppingen or Bauhaus Labs, Chicago. - Publications
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project. Published in the proceedings of the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia - Talks/conferences
2026: The Biennial of Care: Politics of Aftercare in Project-Based Artistic Practice, talk (20 min) at the conference, “International Bauhaus Colloquium”, Weimar.
2025: Public Arts Garage – An Evolving Methodology of Tinkering, round-table at the conference Art and the City, Nice, France
2024: The important presence of an absent artist: Letting go as a practice in socially engaged art, talk (20 min) at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Poznan.
2023: Public Arts Garage, Workshop at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Rennes
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project, talk at the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia
2023: Talk on the exhibition “Garagenland” with Jens Casper, Martin Maleschka, Martin Leibinger, Natalija Yefimkina, Architektur Galerie, Berlin
2022: What’s Your Game, co-development and realization of an expermental lab on playful exploration of public space at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Belfast
2014: Wir sind die Stadt!, Talk, effects of a curatorial project in public space, Artist Residence Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn NL
2014: Guest Critic in the program Designers in Residence by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - Teaching
2025: When Art Left the Scene, interdisciplinary research seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2024: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Rennes2 University
2023: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Barcelona
2022: Public Arts Garage, establishing, coordinating, and co-teaching an international virtual seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, partnering with Concordia University Montréal, Rennes2 University, University of Barcelona, University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast
2013 – 2018: Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg former HFG Ulm, several talks and courses on the topic of artistic interventions in public space - Qualitative Research
2021: University of Montana, University self-study about Native American students in a predominantly white institution of higher education (with focus on STEM)
2021: University of Montana, university self-study on potential and challenges of an international alumni network - Employment, private economy
2011 – 2014: Südwest Presse, Ulm, Layouter and editorial graphic designer
2014 – 2018: VIDU, Ulm, Graphic designer, advertising agency
- Voluntary Commitment
2014 – 2019: Förderverein für junge Künstler e.V. (association for the support of young artist), chairman
2013 – 2016: Voluntary work in the cultural field, Initiation and organizing of neighbourhood culture events, for example 2013-2016 the anual Series Kreuzgänge for the quarter Auf dem Kreuz, Ulm
I work as a curator, researcher, and designer focusing on context-related, socially engaged, and participatory art. After finishing my dissertation about the traveling biennial Manifesta, I conduct research on the aftermath of large-scale cultural events in local social environments. My curatorial work revolves around collaborative practice and embedding artistic projects in social and political contexts. I am keen to explore different ways of practice at the boundaries of curation, mediation, design, and qualitative research.
- Education
2026: Doctoral thesis submitted. Bauhaus-University Weimar. Being Present Without Being There – Boundary Agents in Socially Engaged and Participatory Art at Manifesta – A Stituational Analysis.
2020: Studies, Qualitative Methods, University of Montana, Department of Social Sciences, Missoula MT, USA
2010: Degree, Master of Fine Art – Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2009 / 2010: Exchange studies, Oxford Brookes University, Contemporary Art and Music
2009: Exchange project, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Bauhaus Labs
2007: Degree, Bachelor of Arts, Cultural Design, FH für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Hall - Grants / Awards
2026: Cultural Bridge for collaboration between Germany and UK, project “Office for non-efficient Development”.
2025 / 26: Stiftung Kunstfonds, Plattformen, Funding for the curatorial platform “Biennial of Care”.
2025: Beyond Now – Umwelten, Funding, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar for a research seminar and curatorial project.
2025: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2024: Funding by the city, region and district, Hannover for the curatorial project “Home Repair”. In collaboration with Stiftung Leben & Umwelt / Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Niedersachsen
2023 – 2025: Thüringer Graduiertenförderung, Scholarship for doctoral projects by Bauhaus Research School and the federal state of Thuringia.
2023: Funding Bauhaus Research School, for conferences abroad
2021 / 22: DAAD “International Virtual Academic Collaboration (IVAC)” grant, together with Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alexandra Toland (principal researcher) and the department of Art and Research at Bauhaus University-Weimar. Title: Public Arts Garage – Transnational Tinkering in Transdisciplinary, Participatory and Public Art.
2021: Grants / funding for the „Garage“ Community Exhibition Project by the German Consulate General San Francisco, Montana Arts Council (funded by the State of Montana and the National Endowment for the Arts) and others.
2020: Grant, DAAD Kurzstipendien für Doktoranden (short-term scholarship for doctoral candidates)
2011 – 2018: Grants/funding for several projects in the field of art and culture, for example, by the federal State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Ulm
2012: Short-term residence, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen
2009 – 2010: Scholarship, Förderverein der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Design / Cultural Concepts
2017 – 2019: Hahn15, co-founding of an agency for cultural concepts and spatial design. Development and realization of several projects, for example, International Embassy 2018, urban intervention, and interdisciplinary civic dialogue at the boundaries of social research, participatory art, design, and digital exchange, commissioned by the city of Ulm, Germany (concept, design, coordination, and realization) - Curatorial Work
2025-26: The Biennial of Care, a traveling platform for aftercare of project-based cultural events.
2024: Home Repair, series, participatory projects and artistic research responding to multiple crises, Hannover
2022: Virtual Tinkering, poster exhibition at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Belfast, UK
2021: Garage, community exhibition project in digital exchange between international artists and local communities in Missoula, MT, USA
2013 – 2019: Griesbadgalerie Ulm, project space for context-related and
interdisciplinary art (director, principal curator)
2018: Sister’s Summer, Exhibition series featuring women at the boundaries of art and urban environment, Ulm
2018: International Embassy, Citizen dialogue about participation of international citizens in the urban community
2017: Alles muss raus, Exhibition series with artistic interventions in public space, Ulm
2017: Disorder(s) in Beirut, Exhibition of an interdisciplinary art project as part of 35. congress of children and youth psychiatry by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie (DGKJP) in Ulm
2016: Café Beirut, Exhibition project and social exchange through contemporary art from the Middle East, Ulm
2014: Stiege Ulm, project for reappropriation of urban wasteland, art space in a previously closed public staircase built into the historical city wall in Ulm (Initiation and artistic concept)
2013: Kunst für Alle! Exhibition series participatory art/intervention in public space, Ulm
2012: Kultur Fahrschule, temporary use of a former industrial site as cultural space (co-founding and artistic concept), Ulm - Urban Intervention
2008 – 2016: Artistic interventions in public space, development and realization of artistic projects, independent and in the frame of exhibitions for example for KloHäuschen Biennial, Munich, Künstlerdorf Shöppingen or Bauhaus Labs, Chicago. - Publications
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project. Published in the proceedings of the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia - Talks/conferences
2026: The Biennial of Care: Politics of Aftercare in Project-Based Artistic Practice, talk (20 min) at the conference, “International Bauhaus Colloquium”, Weimar.
2025: Public Arts Garage – An Evolving Methodology of Tinkering, round-table at the conference Art and the City, Nice, France
2024: The important presence of an absent artist: Letting go as a practice in socially engaged art, talk (20 min) at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Poznan.
2023: Public Arts Garage, Workshop at the Summer School of the international Graduate School Creative Approaches to Public Space (GS-CAPS) in Rennes
2023: Facilitating international transdisciplinary collaboration in a virtual academic exchange project, talk at the conference Higher Education Advances (HEAd’ 23) in Valencia
2023: Talk on the exhibition “Garagenland” with Jens Casper, Martin Maleschka, Martin Leibinger, Natalija Yefimkina, Architektur Galerie, Berlin
2022: What’s Your Game, co-development and realization of an expermental lab on playful exploration of public space at the conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) in Belfast
2014: Wir sind die Stadt!, Talk, effects of a curatorial project in public space, Artist Residence Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn NL
2014: Guest Critic in the program Designers in Residence by Bauhaus Dessau Foundation - Teaching
2025: When Art Left the Scene, interdisciplinary research seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
2024: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Rennes2 University
2023: Public Arts Garage, international collaborative seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, University of Barcelona
2022: Public Arts Garage, establishing, coordinating, and co-teaching an international virtual seminar, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, partnering with Concordia University Montréal, Rennes2 University, University of Barcelona, University College Cork, Queen’s University Belfast
2013 – 2018: Aicher-Scholl-Kolleg former HFG Ulm, several talks and courses on the topic of artistic interventions in public space - Qualitative Research
2021: University of Montana, University self-study about Native American students in a predominantly white institution of higher education (with focus on STEM)
2021: University of Montana, university self-study on potential and challenges of an international alumni network - Employment, private economy
2011 – 2014: Südwest Presse, Ulm, Layouter and editorial graphic designer
2014 – 2018: VIDU, Ulm, Graphic designer, advertising agency
- Voluntary Commitment
2014 – 2019: Förderverein für junge Künstler e.V. (association for the support of young artist), chairman
2013 – 2016: Voluntary work in the cultural field, Initiation and organizing of neighbourhood culture events, for example 2013-2016 the anual Series Kreuzgänge for the quarter Auf dem Kreuz, Ulm