Marenka Krasomil is a curator and cultural practitioner based in Berlin and Barcelona.
With her curatorial practice she is focusing on experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative strategies and on urban and public spaces.
She is the artistic director of Driving, Dreaming, Drifting (Barcelona, Brussels, Stuttgart). Since 2024 she is part of the curatorial team of CURRENT a transdisciplinary festival for art in urban space in Stuttgart and since 2020 of Art in the Underground, nGbK Berlin.
In 2023, Marenka was awarded the International Curatorial Residency Program by Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona and undertook a residency at Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca, as part of Goethe auf Mallorca. Her independent curatorial projects include Actors in the Discourse of Places, Espai Souvenir, Barcelona (2024), Nature Is Ancient, But Surprises Us All, Centrum Berlin (2023), CARPARK, Dragonaerareal and public space Berlin (2023), New Urban Publics, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and public space Berlin (2023), as above, so below, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and public space Berlin (2021), Flâneur or Killjoy? feldfünf e.V. Berlin (2020), and Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat, Mehringplatz public space Berlin (2017).
She was the curatorial director and curator of feldfünf e.V. (2018-2023), a transdisciplinary cultural platform for collaborative projects. The assistant curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2014-2018) and the founder of the online residency x-temporary.org (2016-2018).
Marenka Krasomil studied “Curatorial Studies” at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main and at the Royal College of Art in London, and took part in the “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” program at Valand Academy-University of Gothenburg.
Sandra Teitge is a curator and cultural producer born in East Berlin in the 1980s.
She organizes exhibitions and programs at the intersection of contemporary art, music, architecture and design, often in urban and commercial spaces. Sandra is especially interested in solo and collective feminist, class-critical, and other minority practices and narratives, which question and challenge the past, present, and future status quo.
Sandra co-curates the feminist platform gossip gossip gossip together with A. Lückenkemper as well as the bi-annual public art festival Art in the Underground as one of four curators. She is also part of the curatorial research group concerned with the visual art archive (ZfK) of the GDR/ East Germany.
Her recent curatorial projects include the Ruckhaberle Award 2024, the Art Prize Neukölln 2024, the Gallery Weekend Festival 2023, and the pilot year 2021/22 at CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts.
In 2018/19 Sandra was director of the Goethe Pop Up Minneapolis Goethe in the Skyways; in 2014, she founded the residency program FD13 in Saint Paul, MN/U.S., which now runs independently of her.
Sandra has taught art history and contemporary theory at the Minneapolis College of Art (2016/17) and has led seminars at the Free University Berlin, the Dresden University of Fine Arts (2022/23), and the Bauhaus University Weimar (2025).
She studied art and visual history (MA) at the Humboldt University and the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as Media Studies and French (BA) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, and at the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Letícia Oehlgardt is an art historian with a focus on women in art. After studying art history and Romance studies (Spanish) at the University of Cologne, she completed her master's degree at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2024. Her focus is on the connection between gender issues and creative expression. She is also involved in feminist movements. She has gained professional experience in museums, galleries, and art institutions, including the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, where she contributed to the digitization project of the iron art casting collection.
In her research, Letícia explores intersectional perspectives on art and visual culture. She is particularly interested in the representation of gender in art and the visibility of women artists in art history.
Franziska Zahl is a cultural producer, DJ, and pole dance performer raised in East-Berlin.
She collaborates with artists and institutions to create interdisciplinary projects that challenge conventional perspectives and open up space for new viewpoints. Her work moves between the realms of art, theater, club, and performance contexts.
Franziska has produced international projects such as bauhaus imaginista, which made stops in São Paulo, Kyoto, Moscow, Lagos, Delhi, and Berlin. She spent two years in Vienna at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). Franziska has also worked for the 6th and 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the Schinkel Pavillon (Disappearing Berlin), the Brücke-Museum (Werner Düttmann. Berlin. Bau. Werk), the Network of Independent Theaters, ARCH+, and since 2023, she has been part of the Kunst im Untergrund, ngbK working group. She has a long-standing collaboration with Poligonal, an organization that investigates intersections between urban practice, city mediation, and architecture through artistic and curatorial work.
As a pole dance performer, FRZNTE often references architectural contexts. Her body, wrapping and moving around the pole, becomes a kinetic sculpture and an act of empowerment. FRZNTE has collaborated with Transmoderna, a digital art and electronic music collective co-founded by DJ Dixon. She performed with Peaches at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, collaborated with UCC Harlo at Montez Press Radio in New York, and presented her pole dance series “Spinning Rooftops” on rooftops in Berlin, Reykjavik, and Madrid. Occasionally, she tours with Icelandic artist and musician Apex Anima, where they create a high-energy audiovisual live show that blends the ethereal with the physical, the platonic with the erotic, and the static with the acrobatic.
As a DJ, FRZNTE transforms exhibitions, film events, and nightclubs into extravagant wild parties with her mix of hip hop, disco, techno, booty beats, and the best all-time favorites.
Bella Bram is a sculptor and installation artist. In 2023, Bella completed their studies at the Berlin University of the Arts as a master student in the Object/Sculpture class of Prof. Manfred Pernice. Bella’s work explores the concept of human-made interior spaces and their relationship to their surroundings, intertwining the languages of insects with those of (brutalist) architecture.
Bella has received multiple awards for their artistic practice, including the Dorothea Konwiarz Foundation scholarship in 2021, the Playground Art Prize in 2022, the Ursula Hanke-Förster Prize for Sculpture in 2023, and the UdK Art Award in 2024. Their works have been showcased in numerous group and duo exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf, including at the Dorothea Konwiarz Foundation, Daniel Marzona Gallery, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, galerie burster, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Frappant Gallery, AURA Kunstraum, and Salon der Gegenwart.
Marenka Krasomil is a curator and cultural practitioner based in Berlin and Barcelona.
With her curatorial practice she is focusing on experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative strategies and on urban and public spaces.
She is the artistic director of Driving, Dreaming, Drifting (Barcelona, Brussels, Stuttgart). Since 2024 she is part of the curatorial team of CURRENT a transdisciplinary festival for art in urban space in Stuttgart and since 2020 of Art in the Underground, nGbK Berlin.
In 2023, Marenka was awarded the International Curatorial Residency Program by Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona and undertook a residency at Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca, as part of Goethe auf Mallorca. Her independent curatorial projects include Actors in the Discourse of Places, Espai Souvenir, Barcelona (2024), Nature Is Ancient, But Surprises Us All, Centrum Berlin (2023), CARPARK, Dragonaerareal and public space Berlin (2023), New Urban Publics, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and public space Berlin (2023), as above, so below, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst and public space Berlin (2021), Flâneur or Killjoy? feldfünf e.V. Berlin (2020), and Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat, Mehringplatz public space Berlin (2017).
She was the curatorial director and curator of feldfünf e.V. (2018-2023), a transdisciplinary cultural platform for collaborative projects. The assistant curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2014-2018) and the founder of the online residency x-temporary.org (2016-2018).
Marenka Krasomil studied “Curatorial Studies” at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main and at the Royal College of Art in London, and took part in the “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” program at Valand Academy-University of Gothenburg.
Sandra Teitge is a curator and cultural producer born in East Berlin in the 1980s.
She organizes exhibitions and programs at the intersection of contemporary art, music, architecture and design, often in urban and commercial spaces. Sandra is especially interested in solo and collective feminist, class-critical, and other minority practices and narratives, which question and challenge the past, present, and future status quo.
Sandra co-curates the feminist platform gossip gossip gossip together with A. Lückenkemper as well as the bi-annual public art festival Art in the Underground as one of four curators. She is also part of the curatorial research group concerned with the visual art archive (ZfK) of the GDR/ East Germany.
Her recent curatorial projects include the Ruckhaberle Award 2024, the Art Prize Neukölln 2024, the Gallery Weekend Festival 2023, and the pilot year 2021/22 at CCA Berlin – Center for Contemporary Arts.
In 2018/19 Sandra was director of the Goethe Pop Up Minneapolis Goethe in the Skyways; in 2014, she founded the residency program FD13 in Saint Paul, MN/U.S., which now runs independently of her.
Sandra has taught art history and contemporary theory at the Minneapolis College of Art (2016/17) and has led seminars at the Free University Berlin, the Dresden University of Fine Arts (2022/23), and the Bauhaus University Weimar (2025).
She studied art and visual history (MA) at the Humboldt University and the Berlin University of the Arts, as well as Media Studies and French (BA) at the University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, and at the Nouvelle Sorbonne in Paris, France.
Letícia Oehlgardt is an art historian with a focus on women in art. After studying art history and Romance studies (Spanish) at the University of Cologne, she completed her master's degree at the Universitat de Barcelona in 2024. Her focus is on the connection between gender issues and creative expression. She is also involved in feminist movements. She has gained professional experience in museums, galleries, and art institutions, including the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, where she contributed to the digitization project of the iron art casting collection.
In her research, Letícia explores intersectional perspectives on art and visual culture. She is particularly interested in the representation of gender in art and the visibility of women artists in art history.
Franziska Zahl is a cultural producer, DJ, and pole dance performer raised in East-Berlin.
She collaborates with artists and institutions to create interdisciplinary projects that challenge conventional perspectives and open up space for new viewpoints. Her work moves between the realms of art, theater, club, and performance contexts.
Franziska has produced international projects such as bauhaus imaginista, which made stops in São Paulo, Kyoto, Moscow, Lagos, Delhi, and Berlin. She spent two years in Vienna at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). Franziska has also worked for the 6th and 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, the Schinkel Pavillon (Disappearing Berlin), the Brücke-Museum (Werner Düttmann. Berlin. Bau. Werk), the Network of Independent Theaters, ARCH+, and since 2023, she has been part of the Kunst im Untergrund, ngbK working group. She has a long-standing collaboration with Poligonal, an organization that investigates intersections between urban practice, city mediation, and architecture through artistic and curatorial work.
As a pole dance performer, FRZNTE often references architectural contexts. Her body, wrapping and moving around the pole, becomes a kinetic sculpture and an act of empowerment. FRZNTE has collaborated with Transmoderna, a digital art and electronic music collective co-founded by DJ Dixon. She performed with Peaches at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, collaborated with UCC Harlo at Montez Press Radio in New York, and presented her pole dance series “Spinning Rooftops” on rooftops in Berlin, Reykjavik, and Madrid. Occasionally, she tours with Icelandic artist and musician Apex Anima, where they create a high-energy audiovisual live show that blends the ethereal with the physical, the platonic with the erotic, and the static with the acrobatic.
As a DJ, FRZNTE transforms exhibitions, film events, and nightclubs into extravagant wild parties with her mix of hip hop, disco, techno, booty beats, and the best all-time favorites.
Bella Bram is a sculptor and installation artist. In 2023, Bella completed their studies at the Berlin University of the Arts as a master student in the Object/Sculpture class of Prof. Manfred Pernice. Bella’s work explores the concept of human-made interior spaces and their relationship to their surroundings, intertwining the languages of insects with those of (brutalist) architecture.
Bella has received multiple awards for their artistic practice, including the Dorothea Konwiarz Foundation scholarship in 2021, the Playground Art Prize in 2022, the Ursula Hanke-Förster Prize for Sculpture in 2023, and the UdK Art Award in 2024. Their works have been showcased in numerous group and duo exhibitions in Berlin, Hamburg, and Düsseldorf, including at the Dorothea Konwiarz Foundation, Daniel Marzona Gallery, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, galerie burster, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Frappant Gallery, AURA Kunstraum, and Salon der Gegenwart.