Guests
Guests Summer Term 2025
- Bettina Ellerkamp & Jörg Heitmann, silent green Kulturquartier
- Lea Schleiffenbaum, Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin
- Dr. María Elena Bedoya Hidalgo, Kulturhistorikerin und Kuratorin
- Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, Kunst- und Architekturhistoriker
- Sylvia Sadzinski, Kuratorin
- Diversity Arts Culture
- Kreativ Kultur Berlin
Guests from Past Semesters
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Nora Al-Badri, Artist
Kim Albrecht, Prof. Dr., Professor for Information Design, Folkwang University Essen
Michael Annoff, Curator Kein Schöner Archiv, Mediator Neue Auftraggeber and Artist
Sabrina Apitz, Project Coordinator, Kulturförderpunkt Berlin
Salome Asega, Artist, Director NEW INC and Co-Founder POWRPLNT
Stefan Aue, Curator and Researcher
Jacqueline Azarmi Eskandani, Assistant to the Artistic Director, Festival Theaterformen, Hannover
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Mirjam Baitsch, Head of Marketing & Development, Kunstmuseum Basel
Yael Bartana, Artist and Filmmaker
Ute Meta Bauer, Prof. Dr., Curator and Professor, NTU CCA Singapore / Nanyang Technological University
Kristina Bernhardt, Production Manager
Ellen Blumenstein, Artistic Director IMAGINE THE CITY, Kunst und Kultur Hafencity, Hamburg
Felix von Boehm, Film producer, Lupa Film GmbH
Rosi Braidotti, Prof. Dr., Philosopher and Professor (Emeritus), Utrecht University
Candice Breitz, Artist and University Professor
Dr. Kate Brehme, Curator, Co-Initiator Berlinklusion
Mirja Busch, Artist
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Chezweitz GmbH, museale and urbane Szenografie
Michelle Christensen, Prof. Dr., Designer and Scientist, UdK
Pia Christmann, Co-Initiator and Co-Creative Director Studio Pandan
Florian Conradi, Prof. Dr., Designer and Scientist, Einstein Center Digital Future
Curatorial Collective for Public Art (CCPA) (Lianne Mol, Yael Sherill u.a.)
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Nuray Demir, Curator Kein Schöner Archiv and Artist
Lins Derry, Dr., Choreographer and Dance Scholar, metaLAB (at)
Amelie Deuflhard, Artistic Director, Kampnagel
Ranjodh Singh Dhalwalil, Prof. Dr., Researcher, University Basel
Joe Dumit, Prof. Dr., Professor of Anthropology, University of California
Moritz van Dülmen, Cultural Manager, Kulturprojekte Berlin
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Anna Ehrenstein, Prof., Artist
Matthias Einhoff, Artistic Director, ZK/U Berlin
Işıl Eğrikavuk, Dr., Artist and Scientist, LMU München
Canan Erek, Project Manager Offensive Tanz für junges Publikum Berlin
Sophie Erlund, Prof., Artist and Scientist, TU München
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Omer Fast, Prof., Video Artist and Film Director
Britta Färber, Deputy Global Head of Art, Deutsche Bank
Silvia Fehrmann, Dr., Director of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme of the DAAD
Zachary Feldmann, Curator, Goethe-Institute, New York
Rudolf Fischer, Dr., Director, Archiv der Avantgarden – Egidio Marzona (AdA), Staatliche Kunstsammlung Dresden
Stefan Frucht, Artistic Director Siemens Arts Program Berlin/München
Kasia Fudakowski, Artist
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Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
Elisa Georgi, Communications Officer, ZK/U Berlin
Thomas Girst, Dr., BMW Group, Director Kulturengagement, München
Andreas Görgen, Dr., Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media
Anna Gritz, Dr., Director, Haus am Waldsee
Clemens Gruber, Co-Director ClimART, ZK/U Berlin
Krist Gruijthuijsen, Curator and former Director KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Simone Grünwald, Kiezwald e.V.
Monika Grütters, Member of the German Bundestag, former Minister of State for Culture and the Media
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Tessa Hart, Culture Creator and Project Manager AfroPolitan, Berlin
Lea Wohl von Haselberg, Publicist
Lars Hecker, Offensive Tanz / Kulturbus
Martin Heller, Dr., Chairman of KW Freunde e.V.
Louis Henderson, Artist and Film Maker
Carolin Hochleichter, Dramaturge and Curator, former director of the Berliner Theatertreffen
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Amelia Jones, Prof. Dr., Art Historian and Author
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Franzis Kabisch, Film maker
Eduardo Kac, Artist
Nadia Kaiouli, Prof., Television Journalist
Joy Kristin Kalu, Prof. Dr., Dramaturge and Curator, Visiting Professor at UdK
Mine Kaplangı, Curator and Co-Founder Collective Çukurcuma
Gabriele Knapstein, Dr., Curator, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Eike Knüppel, Director, Knueppel & Scheffler
Clemens Koderisch, Co-Director of ClimArt, ZK/U Berlin
Judith König, Production Manager
Florian Kräutli, Dr., Swiss Art Research Infrastructure (SARI), University of Zurich
Hans Krestel, Communications for Art and Culture
Matylda Krzykowski, Designer and Curator
Florian Kuhlemann, Digital Curator and Artist
Janne Kummer, Artist
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Marie Laurberg, Director of Copenhagen Contemporary
Maria Ines Plaza Lazo, Curator and Editor of Arts of The Working Class
Matthias Lilienthal, Dramaturge, Festival Director, and Theatre Intendant, Volksbühne
Andrea Lissoni, Curator and Artistic Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich
Marcus Lobbes, Director of the Academy for Theatre and Digitality, Theater Dortmund
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Giuseppe Maio, Radio Play and Feature Director
Ute Marxreiter, Education, Mediation, and Visitor Services, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Fotini Mavromati, Art Commissioner at the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt)
Andreas Meder, Festival Director, NO LIMITS Festival
Anika Meier, Author and Curator
Heike Catherina Mertens, Cultural Manager & Managing Director of Villa Aurora Thomas Mann House e.V., Berlin
Beatrice Miersch, Dr., Curator, Scholar, Lecturer, Potsdam
Kristin Miller, Program Officer, ZK/U Berlin
Philipp Modersohn, Artist
Rabih Mroué, Artist and Theatre Director
Elisa Müller / Institute for Resistance in Post-Fordism, Artist and Curator
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Katja Naie, Dr., Executive Board Member, Schering Stiftung
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Prof. Dr., Artistic Director, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW Berlin)
Helene Nymann, Dr., Artist
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Thomas Oberender, Artistic Director, Berliner Festspiele
Nora O’Murchú, Curator and Scholar, Artistic Director, transmediale e.V.
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Michalis Pichler, Artist and Head of MISS READ Art Book Festival
Charmaine Poh, Artist
Hanna Potthast, Kiezwald e.V.
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Milo Rau, Director and Playwright
Marcelo Rezende, Curator and Author
Ann Richter, Co-Initiator and Co-Creative Director, Studio Pandan
Anita Rind, Residency Consultant, ZK/U Berlin
Dario Rodighiero, Prof. Dr., Data Scientist, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Agnieszka Roguski, Dr., Curator and Art Scholar
Margit Rosen, Head of Collections, Archives & Research, ZKM
Stephanie Rosenthal, Dr., Director Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Andrea Rostásy, Artist and Curator
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Hrair Sarkissian, Artist
Vanina Saracino, Curator and Scholar
Laura Sang Hee Scherling, Dr., Designer & Researcher, Columbia University
Lea Schleiffenbaum, Curator, Neue Auftraggeber
Sebastian Schmieg, Prof., Artist & Design Professor, HTW Dresden
Jeffrey Schnapp, Prof. Dr., metaLAB (at) Harvard, Harvard University
Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, Co-Director, Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art
Lotte Schüßler, hannsjana Performance Collective
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Prof. Dr., Professor of Anthropology, University of São Paulo and Princeton
Shain Shapiro, Author, Founder & Executive, Sound Diplomacy
Yael Sherill, Curatorial Collective for Public Art, CCPA,
Gülsah Stapel, Dr., Berlin Wall Foundation
Barbara Steiner, Director, Bauhaus Dessau
Susanne Stephani, Research Associate, Institute KMM Hamburg
Janina Sundermeier, Prof. Dr., Digital-Entrepreneurship, Freie Universität Berlin
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David Teh, Prof. Dr., Curator and Scholar, National University of Singapore
Sandra Teitge, Curator
Emily Thomey, Journalist and Editor
Oraib Toukan, Dr., Artist
Members of the Valdez Tribe, Chugach Region, Alaska
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Wolfgang Ullrich, Dr., Art Historian and Cultural Scientist
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Annemie Vanackere, Management & Artistic Direcor, Hebbel am Ufer
Ilya Vidrin, Prof. Dr., Dancer and Assistant Professor of Creative Practice Research, Northeastern University
Daniel Völzke, Editor, Maonopol – Magazin für Kunst und Leben
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Lyndsey Walsh, Artist
Sophie Warmbrunn, Radio Journalist
Clemens von Wedemeyer, Prof., Artist
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Monika Zessnik, Curator, Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Marius Zoschke, Artistic Director, Reclaim
Anna Zosik, Program Director, 360° - Fund for the Cultures of the New Urban Society
Gitte Zschoch, secretary general, Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa)