ABSTRACT

This contribution is a curatorial statement, a report on practice and experience, and a reflection and analysis of the work of two artistic directors of the Berlin-based feminist art space alpha nova & galerie futura. In the twenty-first century, new forms of precarity and precarization have arisen that are the focus of feminist curatorial work at alpha nova & galerie futura. Holding space for differently positioned communities and making the space more available and accessible to BIPOC, diasporic, and immigrant feminist and queer feminist communities active in Berlin are central to this feminist art space. Using as example the multi-year project Precarious Art, and reflecting intersectionality in the context of the economic and material realities of a small, publicly funded feminist art space, this chapter reflects on how feminist curatorial practices can be implemented in everyday practices as well as in structural terms. Feminist curating is not understood as a specific form of representation and mediation, but rather as the organization of collective and process-based engagements with different actors bringing together many different knowledges and feminist perspectives, including their tensions, contradictions, and conflicts.