Mediator in Bad Frankenhausen, Thuringia

"In my work, I am interested in the various connections between art and society. In recent years, an expansion of socially relevant content into socially relevant formats can be observed in the visual arts. New Patrons underlines this development even more: with the reassignment of the role of patron in the process of art production in public space, the usual structures and roles are being questioned. At the same time, art commissioned by citizens is a new way of producing art that, in addition to participation and responsibility, creates exceptionally site-specific works of art."

Anne Kersten has been a mediator for citizen-commissioned art since 2023. She is an art historian, project manager, and curator. In 2021, she co-conceived the online journal Commissioned by – Art in Relation for Neue Auftraggeber, together with Alexander Koch. From 2019 to 2022, she was project director of the Archive of Socially Engaged Art Funding at the Stadtmuseum Berlin, and in 2009–10 she conducted a comprehensive survey of all public art in the city of Wolfsburg on behalf of the IZS Wolfsburg. In addition to her long-standing curatorial work at Kunstverein Wolfsburg (2004–2014), she has realized numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad as an independent curator. In 2021, she received her doctorate in art history from the HfG Offenbach with a dissertation on the topic of “Art and Agriculture”.