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Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Lea Schleiffenbaum

Within the series of talks at Radialsystem, organised by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, Lea Schleiffenbaum, New Patrons mediator, speaks about "Artistic Production Reconfigured: Actor Constellations and Knowledge Exchange in the New Patrons Model".

Friday, December 12, 2025, 5pm
Radialsystem, Holzmarktstr. 33, 10243 Berlin
In English language
Free admission
The event can also be attended via Zoom. Registration is required.

Situated beyond the confines of museums and galleries, public art projects depend on collaborative networks of artists, civilians, municipal staff, administrators, and other intermediaries. The presentation traces these actor-constellations through the example of New Patrons, offering a historical overview of the organization’s origins in France in the early 1990s and the concept behind its model. It then turns to a close analysis of two projects initiated and implemented through New Patrons’ Berlin offi ce: Sasha Waltz, In C (2022) in Marl (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Sol Calero, Casa Isadora (2022) in Schwarzheide (Brandenburg). Operating from a central offi ce but working across diverse locations, New Patrons collaborates with local partners, administrations, and residents. The presentation considers the nature of these collaborations and the shifts they bring about in the roles of curator, artist, and spectator/participant.

The series Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.

The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.

Further Information: www.radialsystem.de/en

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Many people stand around the artwork the Monster of Tours and interact

Discourse
In German 

With Susanne Burmester, Denis Bury, Holger Friese, Gerrit Gohlke, Kathrin Jentjens, Alexander Koch and Lena Ziese
Presented by Antje Stahl

1st event: 19.02.19, 19:00 , Ticket: 5 Euro

Around 500 projects have already been commissioned in Europe. For this opening evening, we will discuss the motivations behind them, the topics that top people's lists, and how artists come up with answers to the challenges on-site. How do the projects work? How does one become a patron? Who pays for it? And how might art be able to assert itself in the midst of life as a contribution to democratic cohesion? On this first of six evenings in the “Whatever You Want!” event series in the Grüner Salon, mediators for the New Patrons report on civic projects with international artists.

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Berlin's Best is an award by KREATIV KULTUR BERLIN, the advisory centre for cultural funding and creative industries in Berlin. Awards are given to actors who offer solutions, networks that move things forward or companies that create added value for others - and the Gesellschaft der Neuen Auftraggeber is there as a best practice example. In an interview with Berlin's Best, Alexander Koch, Gerrit Gohlke and Karola Matschke reveal more about the New Patrons and the idea behind them.

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On 18.11.2018, Alexander Koch will give a lecture at the Athens Biennale as co-founder of the New Clients Movement in Germany. He will present particularly exciting projects from all over Europe and put them up for debate.

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Editorial of the magazine #31 of the Federal Cultural Foundation with the title Your commission please!

"Tobias Asmuth retells a recent episode from the history of the small village of Blessey in the French province, how the collaboration with the world-renowned Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg changed the village and the self-confidence of its inhabitants. It is an outstanding example of the lasting effects that the NEUE AUFTRAGGEBER, which have also been funded in Germany by the Federal Cultural Foundation since spring 2017, can have." from the editorial of the magazine #31 of the Federal Cultural Foundation.

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