last update: 9 Feb 2022
a selection of things I work on
2022
writing
working on a longer text on Commoning Art. It takes forever but we'll plan to publish it early summer
publication, archive
I am working on a digital archive and magazine of Year of the Women*. Will be published in early summer. If you want to contribute, get in touch!
keynote lecture
7.3.2022, 19.30 - book launch of Radicalizing Care at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Aktzeichensaal, Life Drawing Room) or online, https://akbild-ac-at.zoom.us/j/3837117023
I'll be in Vienna and give Birgit Bosold and I's infamous presentation about curating the Year of the Women*. Birgit will join onlinehttps://www.akbild.ac.at/Portal/universitaet/aktuelles/vortraege-events/buchpraesentation-radicalizing-care.-feminist-and-queer-activism-in-curating/?searchterm=krasny*&set_language=de
artist_curator talk
1.3.2022, online, Artist Talk with Dragoș Olea for Triumf Amiria on the invite of Mihaela Cîrjan
publication + text
out now:
Sternberg Press / Publication Series of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Edited by Elke Krasny, Sophie Lingg, Lena Fritsch, Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann
activism, education
working in various group settings on Commoning, redistribution of resources, social justice. We can talk about it in private :)
2021
We are mourning the sudden death of Silke Helfrich. Beyond the personal, this is a big loss for the knowledge production and network building on Commoning and the Commons.
curator talk
booklet release on Wednesday, 23.06.2021, 19.00 - 20.30 CEST (online), an event with Helena Reckitt (Reader in Curating, Goldsmiths, University of London), Vera Hofmann (artist, curator and former board member of Schwules Museum, Berlin), Birgit Bosold (curator and board member of Schwules Museum, Berlin) and Ulrike Boskamp (art historian, director of Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt). After a short introduction by Ulrike Boskamp, Helena Reckitt will talk with Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann. Afterwards, discussion will be open to all participants. The event will be held in English.
out in June 17th 2021:
Birgit Bosold, Vera Hofmann: Year of the Women* / Jahr der Frau_en, Schwules Museum 2018, kuratieren #7, ed. Ulrike Boskamp, 2021The concept of these booklets can be described as texts from the praxis. They deal with curatorial opportunities that often arise in small institutions, non-representative, rather questing. Each booklet reflects work done at a specific place in a specific period of time.
Birgit Bosold and Vera Hofmann do exactly this: They reflect on their curatorial work at Schwules Museum in Berlin in 2018, which was proclaimed the Year of the Women* and turned out to be quite controversial. The result is a courageous booklet that, on the one hand, deals with the curatorial work behind the scenes and the handling of hostility, and on the other hand takes a look at the different positions and approaches of the two curators, where conflicts become visible and thus reflectable.
The booklet is available for free download here. Printed copies are available from us and at Schwules Museum (SMU) in Berlin for 5 Euro.
residency
I got selected for the 2 months long Ankara Queer Art Residency Program in 2020/2021. It did not happen yet. More updates may follow.
editorial
working on publications on Year of the Women* and Curatorial Activism & Care Curating
consulting
Since 2019 the Commons Institute, namely Silke Helfrich, Johannes Euler and myself, are consulting the Gesellschaft Neue Auftraggeber, Society of New Patrons, a Berlin based, Europeanwide cultural institution, on Commons and Commoning.
training
Since the beginning of 2020 I'm doing a three year course of study on biography work with a group of 35 teachers, doctors, healers, social workers, philosophers, etc. Update: I quit the course by the end of 2021
2020
exhibition
My poster "Und, wie ist so im Schwulen Museum zu arbeiten?" for Philipp Gufler's "I wanna give you devotion" is currently on display at Haus der Kunst, Munich in the exhibition "Sweat"
management
By the end of 2020 I will leave the Schwules Museum. For four years, two terms of office, I was part of the managing board of directors and part of the programming committee. I do not wish to run for a third term. I am still in contact with the museum and working on a follow-up project. I wish my colleagues all the best and thank all supporters of my activist and curatorial work.
2019
care & consulting
supporting a big community / rural development project in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
workshop provider
started giving eco sensuality workshops
lecturer
auf Einladung von Prof. Fiona McGovern: "Queer-feministisches Kuratieren", Institut für Bildende Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Universität Hildesheim, DE
War im Urlaub, Birgit Bosold präsentierte ohne mich.28.5.2019
Queering Memory, Alms Conference 2019, "The Year of the Women* at Schwules Museum Berlin: A Case Study of Power Dynamics within ‘Queer’ Politics of Memory", – as I will be on a film shoot for Tucké Royales "Stonewall Uckermark", my collegue Birgit Bosold is presenting without my presence.Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, June 27, 2019more
group exhibition
Little Boy's Luminous Legacies (new, clear, atomic narratives)Lothringer 13, Munich, April 04 – June 09, 2019I'll be part with Benten Clay's video work "Yellow Cake" and the poster "Onkalo"more
panelist
Finissage Year of the Women*, Panel + Q&A ( YAYY WE MADE IT!!!)
"the work of queer women and non-binary people within art institutions and how they are represented"
17. Feb 2019more
2018
Joint Ventures: Movements in Feminism, Feminisms in Movement: Urgencies, Emergencies, Promises, Belvedere 21, Vienna, Austria
1st Dec 2018
Program here
management & consulting
I've got re-elected as member of the Board of Directors at Schwules Museum for another two years.
This is a volunteer position and the 8 members of the board work as the executive directors of the institution, mainly responsible for the strategic planning, the programming of exhibitions and events, finance, communication and human resources. The SMU is the world's largest museum and archive for LGBTIQA+ art, history and culture and has around 80 staff members.
curation
12 Moons year-long queer feminist film lounge for Year of the Women* at Schwules Museum+12 events (talks, discussions, Q&A, screenings, celebrations) check SMU website for dates
SPIRITSDyke Bar for Year of the Women*, Schwules Museum
check SMU website for events
our own feminismSyear-long lecture and workshop series for Year of the Women*, Schwules Museum
check SMU website for dates
curation, project lead
Year of the Women*,
full year program,
Schwules Museum
all the stuff is online at the SMU website
I am on a week-long summer school about the "Commons"
with Commons theorist and author Silke Helfrich and
an amazing group of people
July 2018
curation, panelist, video screening
Afrodite* Athens, GR, June 14-17th https://aphroditeproject.org/
I curated films for the screenings and was a panelist at "Writing one’s own History. Archival practices between self-organization and institutional framework".
My video work "Bright Eyes" was screened in one program as well.
artist talk
Monday Meetings, Decad, April 4th, 2018, Berlin, DE
https://www.decad.org/MondayMeetings
Artist Talk with Jasmina Al-Qaisi, organized by Dorine van Meel, Josefin Arnell
preparation, host, lecturer
Who(se) Care(s), Kuratieren: Re-Produktives Kümmern. Kritisch, feministisch, queer., Symposium 12.-13.10.2018, Schwules Museum, Berlin, DE
project lead
finally it's out and proud: SMU has a new Corporate Design!
see more here
scenography
travelling exhibition "Unverschämt". / "Shameless". Lesbian Women and Gay Men in Hesse from 1945 to 1985.
