On July 17, the fellows of the Sommerakademie CURARE 2025, organized by the Kulturamt Mitte under the directorship of Olga Schubert, visited our K. Verlag for a workshop session. The day formed part of the academy’s program of curatorial training and discussion around institutional infrastructures at the intersections of ecology, memory politics, and critical knowledge production.
Other contributions to the summer academy were invited from Antonia Alampi (spore), Ibou Diop (Stadtmuseum), Paz Guevara (HKW), Kito Nedo (freelance art critic), and our own Anna-Sophie Springer (K. Verlag).
Anna-Sophie’s situated contribution focused on her curatorial-publishing practice, presenting insights from intercalations, Processing Process, as well as the long-term research curatorial initiative Reassembling the Natural, which re-reads natural history collections as epistemic archives of colonial and extractive violence.
In parallel to thinking about (para)institutional experimentation, the session highlighted the studio’s experimental publishing practice, where editorial work, design, and collective research intersect to generate new forms of curatorial-editorial authorship. Through examples such as Fantasies of the Library (2015) and The Work of Wind: Land (2018), the workshop explored how curatorial and editorial strategies can contribute to building infrastructures for learning, remembering, and political imagination. The exchange with the fellows unfolded as an open conversation, enriched by the perspectives and experiences of all participants.
We are delighted to have been part of this inspiring initiative.
📷 Photos by Constanze Flamme