We are happy to announce that the fourth round of the Visiting Curators program could finally take place in Bremen! We are very happy to welcome four internationally active curators to Bremen and the Künstlerhaus in October 2021.

Invited were Krist Gruijthuijsen (curator and director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin), who was invited by Janneke de Vries from the Weserburg, Nadia Lichtig (curator, researcher, artist and professor at MOCO (Montpellier Contemporain)), invited by Dr. Mona Schieren from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, Katrin Peters-Klaphake (research fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth and associate curator at the Makerere Art Gallery/Institute for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (IHCR), Makerere University, Kampala)), invited by Ingmar Lähnemann from the Städtische Galerie, and Moritz Scheper (freelance journalist, curator and director of the Neuer Essener Kunstverein).

Aneta Rostkowska (curator, researcher, writer and director of Temporary Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art in Cologne) will make her visit in December 2021 for various reasons.

This year, the support program has again led to a lively exchange between artists from Bremen and curators from abroad. The feedback from the visiting artists and curators was very positive. Moritz Scheper, for example, said that it was a lot of fun to get to know the city’s artists, their works and working situations. The artist Bo Su states affirmative: “I find the whole concept of the program absolutely convincing. I think “Visiting Curators” can build a bridge to establish trans-regional networks that, if necessary, make it possible to make artistic positions from Bremen known elsewhere! And even if no further consequences develop after the first encounter, the exchange alone was also insightful and enriching. I hope many other artists* in Bremen will be able to take advantage of this program in the future.”

We are glad about the lively participation and are looking forward to the pending visit of Aneta Rostkowska in December of this year.

• Curators

  Krist Gruijthuijsen, curator and director of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin) (invited by Janneke de Vries from the Weserburg)

  Nadia Lichtig, curator, researcher, artist and professor at MOCO (Montpellier Contemporain) (invited by Dr. Mona Schieren from the Hochschule für Künste Bremen)

  Katrin Peters-Klaphake, research fellow at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), University of Bayreuth and associate curator at the Makerere Art Gallery/Institute for Heritage Conservation and Restoration (IHCR), Makerere University, Kampala) (invited by Ingmar Lähnemann from the Städtische Galerie)

  Moritz Scheper, freelance journalist, curator and director of the Neuer Essener Kunstverein.

  Aneta Rostkowska, curator, researcher, writer and director of Temporary Gallery, Center for Contemporary Art in Cologne, will make her visit in December 2021 for various reasons.

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