Doreen Mende
Born 1976 in Germany. Curator and author based in Berlin. She earned a Diploma in Music from the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig and completed her studies at the Centre Music & Technology of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. She was part of the educational team of Documenta 11 and continued her studies at the Institute Art in Context at Berlin University of the Arts. She has curated What If … #2 (JET, Berlin, 2005), Ear Appeal (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 2006), Not Wright But Wrong (JET, Berlin, 2007), Candida Höfer. Projects: Done (Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2009) and has been writing texts and editing publications in connection with the projects above. 2006-09 she has been lecturer in the Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice program, founded in 2006, at the University of Media Art and Design Karlsruhe (HfG). In the frame of the teaching at the HfG, she realized exhibition projects with Armin Linke, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and with Candida Höfer at the ZKM Karlsruhe. She is editor-in-chief of the program’s publication series DISPLAYER, published by HfG, and co-founder of the group / project space General Public in Berlin. Currently she is doing a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
