We aim to find out which steps are useful on the path to self-employment as an artist. What self-organised exhibition venues and contact points are there in Berlin? How open to diversity is the art market for alumni of fine arts?

15 June, 6 - 8:30pm: 
Alumni talks with Patricia Sandonis, Aya Onodera, Sidsel Ladegaard

16 June, 10am - 1pm: 
Experts’ roundtable with Philip Horst (ZK/U), Hannah Kruse (Goldrausch), Marisa Maza (nGbK / bbk), Dr. Yvette Mutumba (UdK Art in Context)

Please register at: ikudi_ @udk-berlin.de
Subject: Beyond UdK_Talks + Date of the event

Collected links about funding, venues, contact points for Fine Arts (PDF).

Patricia Sandonis 

Patricia Sandonis is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist who works primarily with the public space. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid and Art in Context (M.A.) at UdK Berlin.
https://www.sandonis.com/bio

Aya Onodera

Aya Onodera is a painter. She studied at the Joshibi Junior College of Art and Design in Tokyo and with Prof. Burkhardt Held at UdK Berlin. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree with Prof. Anselm Reyle at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg.
http://www.ayaonodera.com/indexhibit/index.php?/works/cv/

Sidsel Ladegaard

Sidsel Ladegaard studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin and works as a freelance artist in Berlin. In 2020 she completed the Goldrausch Künstler*innen project.
https://www.sidselladegaard.net/

Philip Horst

Philip Horst works as an artist, curator, organiser. He is co-founder of the artists' collective KUNSTrePUBLIK and the ZK/U (Center for Art and Urbanistics).
https://www.zku-berlin.org/
http://www.kunstrepublik.de/

Hannah Kruse

Hannah Kruse is an art scholar and project manager of the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt. This one-year postgraduate programme promotes outstanding female artists. Every year, 15 women present their work in web, print and exhibitions, acquire art-specific professional knowledge and a wide network. The aim is to promote equal participation in a structurally unequal field of work.
https://goldrausch.org/de/profil/

Marisa Maza

Marisa Maza is a visual artist and has realised some of her projects as a curator at nGbK (neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, a grassroots democratic art society) and as a coach for the professionalisation of artists at bbk berlin (professional association of visual artists in Berlin).
https://marisa-maza.com/
https://www.bbk-bildungswerk.de/dozenten/marisa-maza

Dr. Yvette Mutumba

Dr. Yvette Mutumba is currently lecturer at the Institute of Art in Context at UdK Berlin, co-founder and artistic director of the multimedia platform Contemporary And (C&) as well as Curator-at-Large at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. In 2020, she and Julia Grosse were presented with the “European Cultural Manager of the Year” award.
http://www.kunstimkontext.udk-berlin.de/lehrende/yvette-mutumba/
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/360224/yvette-mutumba-and-julia-grosse-awarded-european-cultural-manager-of-the-year-2020/