Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Hannah Kruse

Founded in 1989, the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt is unique in its focus: the project offers a one-year postgraduate program for FLINTA artists. Even in 2026, there remains a significant gender imbalance in the visual arts—despite the fact that FLINTA artists make up the majority of graduates from art colleges. Once established as professionals, FLINTA artists face a gender-based wage gap of about 30 percent (according to KSK), which is closely linked to fewer exhibition opportunities, intersectional barriers, and the gender care gap.

The Goldrausch program addresses this imbalance by equipping participants with specific professional skills and increasing their visibility. Each artist creates an individual catalog; and the year culminates in a group exhibition, often hosted by Berlin’s non-profit municipal galleries and attracting a large audience.

The independent program, funded by the Berlin Senate and the European Social Fund, has evolved in tandem with the city’s art scene.

This lecture will examine the program’s educational philosophy and content, as well as how changes in Berlin’s art scene have impacted artists’ working conditions.

What attracts participants? And what lasting benefits do they gain from participating, both during and after the program? It is the individual artists who keep Berlin’s vibrant art scene alive. But the art scene is facing drastic cuts—empowerment and solidarity are more important than ever.

Goldrausch has set itself the goal of creating space for women and FLINTA artists in Berlin’s art scene, driven by the conviction that inclusivity benefits everyone.

The lecture series “Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice” by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, which has been continuing at Radialsystem since December 2024, offers a space for critical curatorial thinking and new perspectives and formats in curatorial practice.

As an international postgraduate program and platform, the OnCurating Academy Berlin has made it its mission to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.

Building on the OnCurating platform and postgraduate program, the focus of this discussion series is on the (further) development of cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means creating innovative structures for the presentation of cultural artifacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design, and architecture intertwine in new ways that must be continually reimagined.

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