Kathleen Reinhardt is the director of the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin, where she started her institutional program with the exhibitions “Lin May Saeed. The Snow Falls Slowly in Paradise. A Dialogue with Renée Sintenis” (2023) and “Noa Eshkol. No Time to Dance” (2024). From 2016-2022 she was the curator for contemporary art at the Albertinum (Dresden State Art Collections), organizing multiple solo and group presentations and publishing artist focused publications, such as “Slavs and Tatars. Made in Dschermany” (2018) and “For Ruth, the Sky in Los Angeles. Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and David Horvitz” (2018 Albertinum, 2022 Wendemuseum of the Cold War Los Angeles). In 2020/21 she curated the group exhibition “1 Million Roses for Angela Davis,” and initiated the multi-platform research and exhibition project “Revolutionary Romances. Transcultural Art Histories in the GDR” (2019-2024). A scholar of African American art and socially-engaged artistic practices, she received her PhD from FU Berlin and was supported by the Fulbright commission and the Terra Foundation for American Art for her scholarly work. She has taught on Black art as well as art under state socialism and post-socialist artistic practices at universities in Germany and given lectures and workshops at art institutions and art academies worldwide. Her writing has appeared in art catalogues, as recently in the Walker Art Center publication “Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc 1960s–1980s,” scholarly volumes as in the upcoming “Socialist Exhibition Cultures“ (University of Toronto Press), as well as the magazines African Arts, Art Margins, Contemporary And, and Kaleidoscope, among other publications.

Katrin Peters-Klaphake is a researcher and curator and is currently working in the Art Library, Photography Collection, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz in the project “Racism – Colonialism – Fascism? German-Sudanese collaborative development and presentation of the Nuba work of Leni Riefenstahl”. From 2015 to 2019 she was a senior researcher in the international research project “African Art History and the Emergence of a Modern Aesthetic”. From 2009 to 2017 she worked as a curator and lecturer at the Makerere Art Gallery/ Institute for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (IHCR), Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She has organized numerous international exhibition projects and workshops.

Paola Malavassi (born 1978 in San José, Costa Rica) studied art history and philosophy at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. From 2016 to 2020 she was head of Julia Stoschek Collection Berlin (JSC Berlin). Before that, from 2005 to 2011, she was curatorial director’s assistant to Prof. Kasper König at Museum Ludwig Cologne. Malavassi has curated exhibitions with artists including Andreas Fischer, Tobias Rehberger, Stan Douglas, Dan Perjovschi, Wolfgang Mattheuer and Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. Most recently she co-curated with Jason Moran the group exhibition I’ve Seen the Wall: Louis Armstrong on Tour in the GDR 1965, including artist such as Terry Adkins, Norman Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Adrian Piper, Lorna Simpson and Rosemarie Trockel.

Paola Malavassi works in an interdisciplinary manner, frequently involving the areas of music and dance. Such an approach became evident in the exhibition Stan Douglas: Splicing Block (2019, JSC Berlin) which she curated, and in the performance APEX VARIATIONS by the artist Arthur Jafa and the jazz pianist Jason Moran (2018, JSC Berlin). She had already organized performative events at Museum Ludwig, including a concert with Steve Reich and the Ensemble Modern on Gerhard Richter in collaboration with the Kölner Philharmonie, and a performance by the choreographer Anna Halprin in collaboration with Tanzhaus NRW (both in 2009).

Art outreach and education also play a central role in her work. Malavassi has held teaching positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and Fachhochschule Potsdam. At Museum Ludwig she headed the art outreach project “kunst:dialoge” and was co-founder of the interdisciplinary series of events “Late Night Thursday.” Both projects continue today.

When

Thu, 28.11.2024, 7 pm

Length

60 min.

Language

German 

Meeting Point

Foyer

Cost

5 € plus admission

Booking

Online and onsite

Note

Limited number of participants