Martha Schwindling

Martha Schwindling works as a designer on the translation of concepts and narratives into spaces, furniture and objects. She is particularly interested in transdisciplinary cooperation with researchers, artists and everyday experts. Schwindling has designed displays for artists and cultural institutions such as HKW Berlin, Kunstverein München and Kunsthalle Wien. In addition to her work as a product and exhibition designer, she conceives curatorial projects and mediation formats for and with institutions such as the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation and the Goethe-Institut, which examine the backgrounds and resonances of design, architecture and material culture. Martha Schwindling holds a diploma in product design from HfG Karlsruhe and a Master’s degree from the program Cultures of the Curatorial at HGB Leipzig. She founded her studio in Berlin in 2014. Since 2022, she has regularly conducted projects together with Marlene Oeken.

For Kunst Raum Mitte, Martha Schwindling has created a display for the historical materials of the former galerie weisser elefant.

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Martha Schwindling

Martha Schwindling works as a designer on the translation of concepts and narratives into spaces, furniture and objects. She is particularly interested in transdisciplinary cooperation with researchers, artists and everyday experts. Schwindling has designed displays for artists and cultural institutions such as HKW Berlin, Kunstverein München and Kunsthalle Wien. In addition to her work as Martha Schwindling

Katrin Steiger

Katrin Steiger (*1982, Schmalkalden, Germany) is a conceptual artist who works with textiles and multimedia. Her experimental work operates between observation and transformation in order to explore aspects of performativity in everyday life. With her interest in multisensory signifiers, she investigates textile appearances, contemporary phenomena and social behavior also in participatory formats. In 2012, after Katrin Steiger

Pam Virada

Pam Virada (b. Bangkok) is an artist based in Amsterdam. She explores intersections between the cinematic and temporal, navigating the ghostly forces and intimate stories within domestic spheres. Through mixed-media installations and moving images, Virada reconfigures existing contexts and narratives, investigating the themes of impermanence and intimate turmoil in spatial arrangements, objects, text, and expanded Pam Virada

Anna Zett

The research residency at Kunst Raum Mitte has been awarded to Berlin-based artist Anna Zett. During her two-month residency, Zett will investigate forms and practices of ‘ritual association’—performative events that are formally, affectively, and physically concrete, yet remain open on the level of meaning. Zett’s work examines performative actions from the late period of the Anna Zett

GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS

Green Papaya Art Projects, founded in 2000, is the Philippines’ longest-running independent platform for contemporary art. It was preparing for its permanent closure in 2021 when the global pandemic hit in early 2020. A fire razed its space in June of that year, destroying a part of its physical archive, library, technical equipment, and artworks. GREEN PAPAYA ART PROJECTS

Class for Performative Arts (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) 

Isabel Lewis with LISSY WILLBERG Lissy Willberg (*1989, East Berlin) is an artist, researcher, and lecturer specializing in performative arts. With a background in dance, they explore social and spatial dynamics through multimedia installations and performances based on participatory proposals. Their projects focus on the materialities of ways of relating and pursue questions of collectivity Class for Performative Arts (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig)