Marenka Krasomil is a cultural scientist, author, editor and curator based in Berlin and Barcelona.
With her curatorial practice she is focusing on experimental, transdisciplinary and collaborative strategies and on urban and public spaces.
She is the co-curator of “Kunst im Untergrund / Art in the Underground", Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (since 2020 ongoing) and curated independently a.o. Actors in the Discourse of Places, Espai Souvenir Barcelona (2024), CARPARK, Berlin (2023), Flâneur or Killjoy?, feldfünf, Berlin (2020), and Whenever the Heart Skips a Beat, Mehringplatz Berlin (2017).
In 2023 she was the winner of SAC International Curatorial Residency Program and of “Goethe auf Mallorca” at Casa Planas. She was the curatorial director and curator of feldfünf e.V. (2018-2023), a transdisciplinary cultural platform for collaborative projects. The assistant curator at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2014-2018) and the founder of the online residency x-temporary.org (2016-2018).
Marenka Krasomil studied “Curatorial Studies” at Städelschule Frankfurt am Main and at the Royal College of Art in London, and took part in the “Commissioning and Curating Contemporary Public Art” program 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, Rahima Gambo, 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, 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 a project by Bar Project Barcelona, ART MATTERS, a workshop by Robert-Bosch foundation; Curatorial roundtrip 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