Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Solvej Helweg Ovesen

Deep Curating is described here less as a method and more as a form of leadership characterized by continuous feedback loops in which strategies evolve through team reflection, professional exchange, and aesthetic development. The approach integrates all phases of exhibition development and combines content, structure, and design into a coherent and dynamic overall process.

With a focus on care and sustainability, Deep Curating fosters a new understanding of artistic production by transforming unused resources into time for reflection, creative renewal, and the development of long-term impacts. It is a circular and constantly evolving model designed to strengthen both local communities and broader cultural discourses.

Solvej Helweg Ovesen’s lecture offers an analysis of how curatorial practices can help shape both exhibitions and future urban and creative developments. It includes insights, examples from years of curatorial practice, and reflections on how curating can support a continuous engagement with art and social contexts.

The “Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice” series 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 of curatorial practices.

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 discussion series focuses 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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