The LOOM
Vision, branding and experience for a new creative hub
Oakland, 2020 - 2023
The Loom is a 5.5-acre creative hub in Oakland, California, looping creative spaces, regenerative living, and artistic expression. It envisions empowering artists, makers, entrepreneurs, and activists, to nurture and amplify the natural and cultural diversity of the Bay Area and beyond. We supported the project with vision, branding, experiential design, community management. More
SUPRA EXPERIENCE PROGRAM
Curation of arts, music, wellness for private social space
Mexico City, 2018 - 2020
We curated the cultural program of a high end social space since its opening in Mexico City, hosting weekly contemporary rituals combining ancestral and new healing technologies, and creating special art experiences and performances. More
KAVANA
Experiential series about contemporary rituals
Berlin/Mexico City/Burning Man, 2017 - 2019
Suppressed by the industrial revolution and institutional religion, the culture of ritual is coming back as an expression of a secular spirituality based on the transdisciplinary concept of consciousness. KAVANA is an experiential inquiry of contemporary rituals, bridging aesthetics with the sciences of consciousness in multiple formats and spaces. More.
The Moon BY WEIWEI AND ELIASSON
Curation of participatory digital art project
Web, 2013 - 2017
Ai Weiwei and Olafur Eliasson are two of the world's most renowned contemporary artists, respectively focusing on the representation of social and natural phenomena in large scale installations. We curated their first collaboration and digital artwork, a canvas in the shape of a planet without borders, where everyone with internet access could leave a handmade mark of their boundless expression. Since its launch at the Falling Walls conference in November 2013, through its showcase at the Tate Modern, this interactive lunar landscape has amassed over 80,000 entries, growing from a blank white canvas to a dense collection of diverse responses.
Falling Walls CONFERENCE
Co-curation and digital media of Berlin leading science conference
Berlin, 2010 - 2014
Started in 2010, the Falling Walls Conference celebrates every year the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, by presenting twenty of the most interesting breakthroughs in science and society to a diverse audience from business, politics, academia, culture. For five editions we helped them with curatorship, creative direction, digital strategy.
Monopol of the People
Vision, branding, community for a creative hub
Berlin, 2015 - 2017
“Of Berlin’s ubiquitous and charming industrial sites, a few still remain. Monopol is one of them - a former distillery located in Reinickendorf. A community of entrepreneurs has come together to give it a new purpose.” We supported with concept, cultural strategy and networking for the first three years of the project.
Performance Carousel
Curation of long durational performance art installation
Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires, 2014
This performance installation consisted of a rotating carousel divided into nine parts, designed by Fyodor Andreevich-Pavlov and the architect Marko Brajovic for the Faena Arts Center. Nine performance artists, including Fyodor himself, performed in their designated space all day for seven days. Periodically, the carousel stopped for the public to step inside and participate in the action. We curated the performances around the themes of shame, intimacy, privacy, subversion as a political metaphor for a forgotten revolution. More
Lexus Hybrid Art
Curation of festival of hybrid and public art
Manezh, Red Square, Moscow, 2013
Lexus Hybrid Art brings every year the best of technology based art to experimental and exhibition venues in Moscow and St Petersburg. Renown artists joined over the years such as Marina Abramovic, Bill Viola, Julio Le Parc. I curated the 2013 edition at the Manezh in the Red Square with works of Superuber, Pusenkoff Pusenkoff, Marco Brambilla, Hidemi Nishida and Teppei Koseki, David Letellier, Studio Roosegaarde, Cadu, Julius von Bismark, Philip Wortington and a performance by Devendra Banhart. More
STRELKA SUMMER TALKS
Curation of talks about urban innovation
Strelka Institute, Moscow, 2013, 2014
Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture, and Design was founded in 2009 with a mission to change physical and cultural landscapes of Russian cities. The Institute promotes positive changes and creates new ideas through its educational activities, including year long urban planning scholarships and public talks about urban innovation. We curated two editions of their Summer public talks, inviting design innovators such as Doris Sung, Superuber, Liam Young, Guto Requena, HWKN, The Living NY, Studio Schwitalla, Public Art Lab, Dean Johnson, ScanLAB.
SOHO HOUSE SPECIAL EVENTS
Curation of talks series and art event
Berlin, Los Angeles, 2011 - 2015
Soho House is a group of private members' clubs originally aimed at those in the arts and media. We curated for their members program in Berlin the Mashable Salon, monthly talks about digital innovation and creative industries, and Arts and Society, discussions and screenings around artistic freedom. In Los Angeles we curated the VIP FYF Fest 2013 opening at Sennet Mack Studios in Silverlake, with an immersive art installation by Japanese environmental artist Hidemi Nishida.