The Curator’s Suitcase takes the suitcase – real or metaphorical – to discuss international collaboration, planetary networks, and the baggage we carry from project to project as curators. To ponder the curator’s suitcase is to ponder the possibilities and predicaments of curatorial work itself. Some suitcases are real: the suitcases brought to transformative collaborations or the suitcases carried into exile. Others are metaphorical: the baggage of the extractivist, racist, patriarchal and classist world we wish we could leave behind.
Those who have followed the Young Curators Academy during the Berliner Herbstsalon are familiar with our expansive definition of the curator. This curator is the intersectional activator of his/her/their communities, at once writer, artist, scientist, historian, and producer, working at the crossing of art and activism. The seven curators featured in this program all fall into this expansive definition. Over the course of three weeks, they will unpack their own strategies of resistance and share the contexts of their work. Visitors are welcome to join lectures, performances, workshops, screenings, games and conversations.

Artistic Director Keng Sen Ong Curational Collaboration Anne Diestelkamp Production Management Lucia Leyser Design Foyer Alissa Kolbusch, Pia Grüter, Mila Mazic Props Pia Grüter Props Assistance Alice Faucher, Marco Michelle, Una Jankov
With Tara Al-Dughaither, Aouefa Amoussouvi, Jade Barget, Maria Cynkier, Giuliana Kiersz, Shaunak Mahbubani, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Nirlyn Seijas

The Curator’s Suitcase is part of the Young Curators Academy of the 5. Berliner Herbstsalon. Funded by the State of Berlin, Senate Department for Culture and Europe.