Marenka Krasomil is a cultural scientist, author and curator based in Berlin. Her curatorial practice focuses on experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative strategies, with a particular interest in urban and public spaces.Taking the spatial, social and historical conditions of a place as a point of departure, she is interested in artistic processes that foster new encounters, relationships and forms of publicness.

She is currently the project manager of Tanznacht Berlin at Tanzfabrik and a mediator for Neue Auftraggeber, where she accompanies a collaborative public art process between local communities and artists. She is the artistic director of Driving, Dreaming, Drifting (Barcelona, Brussels, Stuttgart). Since 2024, she has been part of the curatorial team of CURRENT – Art and Urban Space in Stuttgart, and since 2019 of Kunst im Untergrund (Art in the Underground) at nGbK Berlin. In 2026, she is a member of the jury for the appointment of the new Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr.

In 2023, Marenka was awarded the International Curatorial Residency Program by Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona and undertook a residency at Casa Planas, Palma de Mallorca, as part of "Goethe auf Mallorca". Her independent curatorial projects include "Actors in the Discourse of Places", Espai Souvenir, Barcelona (2024); "Nature Is Ancient, But Surprises Us All", Centrum Berlin (2023); "CARPARK", Dragonerareal and public space, Berlin (2023); "New Urban Publics", nGbK, Berlin (2023); "as above, so below", nGbK, Berlin (2021); "Flâneur or Killjoy?", feldfünf e.V., Berlin (2020); and "Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat", Mehringplatz and public space, Berlin (2017).

From 2018 to 2023, she was Curatorial Director and curator of feldfünf e.V., a transdisciplinary cultural platform for collaborative projects. Previously, she was Assistant Curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) from 2014 to 2018 and founded the online residency platform x-temporary.org, which she ran from 2016 to 2018.

Marenka Krasomil studied Curatorial Studies at Städelschule and Goethe University Frankfurt, Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in London, and Applied Cultural Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She also participated in the Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art programme at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.

Her curatorial projects include exhibitions with artists a.o., Ayami Awazuhara, Calori & Maillard, COVE Berlin, Raqs Media Collective, Nuray Demir, Anna Ehrenstein, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Lina Hermsdorf, Balz Isler & Justin F. Kennedy, Kinga Kielczynska, Göksu Kunak, Kristina Paustian, pcnc_bay, Sunny Pfalzer, Ayumi Rahn, Tabita Rezaire, Shirin Sabahi, Maya Schweizer, House of Tupamaras, Shira Wachsmann, Miriam Yammad, Peng Zuqiang.

Her publications and editorial works include text contributions to catalogues for Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, CURRENT Magazin #3, Gallery Conradi, INDEX, Kunsthaus Hamburg and magazines such as all-over | Magazin für Kunst und Ästhetik, and Die Nadel – Kulturwissenschaftliche Zeitschrift für Kunst und Medien.

Marenka Krasomil was taking part in various workshops among others: BarTool#4 by Bar Project Barcelona, ART MATTERS, a workshop by Robert-Bosch foundation; Curatorial trip including studio visits organised by Goethe Institute Bratislava, The Institute of Things to Come at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin and the International Curatorial Workshop, Vessel, Italy.

Contact: marenka (a) krasomil.de