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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.
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'''Doreen Mende''' is a curator, theorist and, since November 2021, head of the cross-collection department "Research" at the State Collections of Art in [[Dresden]] as well as professor for "Curatorial/Politics" at the CCC Research-based Master of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD Genève/Switzerland, which she also headed from 2015 to 2021. Her curatorial projects include ''Hamhung's Two Orphans'' for ''Bauhaus Imaginista'' at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2018); ''Navigation Beyond Vision'', co-edited edition #101 and #109 of ''e-flux Journal'' (2019/2020); ''The Prisoner Letter'' at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Sharjah Biennial 13 Offsite in Ramallah (2016) and ''KP Brehmer Real Capital - Production'' for Raven Row, London (2014). Mende is currently working on the curatorial research study ''The Missed Seminar: Worldmaking After Internationalism'' as part of [https://entangledinternationalism.org/ Decolonising Socialism Entangled Internationalism] (2019-2023), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Numerous scholarly and essayistic articles for MIT Press, Oxford Handbook for Communist Visual Cultures, Jerusalem Quarterly, Archive Books and spector books. She is a founding member of the [https://www.harun-farocki-institut.org/ Harun Farocki Institute] in Berlin and the [http://web.archive.org/web/20230425142039/https://advancedpractices.net/ European Forum for Advanced Practices]. [https://forschung.skd.museum/en/persons/detail/doreen-mende/ (2024)]
 
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 21:38, 13 July 2024

Doreen Mende is a curator, theorist and, since November 2021, head of the cross-collection department "Research" at the State Collections of Art in Dresden as well as professor for "Curatorial/Politics" at the CCC Research-based Master of the Visual Arts Department at HEAD Genève/Switzerland, which she also headed from 2015 to 2021. Her curatorial projects include Hamhung's Two Orphans for Bauhaus Imaginista at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow and Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin (2018); Navigation Beyond Vision, co-edited edition #101 and #109 of e-flux Journal (2019/2020); The Prisoner Letter at Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Sharjah Biennial 13 Offsite in Ramallah (2016) and KP Brehmer Real Capital - Production for Raven Row, London (2014). Mende is currently working on the curatorial research study The Missed Seminar: Worldmaking After Internationalism as part of Decolonising Socialism Entangled Internationalism (2019-2023), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Numerous scholarly and essayistic articles for MIT Press, Oxford Handbook for Communist Visual Cultures, Jerusalem Quarterly, Archive Books and spector books. She is a founding member of the Harun Farocki Institute in Berlin and the European Forum for Advanced Practices. (2024)