From January 2023 to April 2025, Juliane Bischoff was the artistic director of Klosterruine Berlin. In her programme, she addressed a wide range of topics from an artistic and discursive perspective, including marginalized histories – from the Middle Ages to the present day – public memory, historical reconstruction and questions of urban planning and its economic and social impact. She dealt with power relations in public space, forms of coexistence and ecological issues. Her concept has always been closely linked to the history and present of the Berlin monastery ruins as a publicly accessible site and testimony to the city’s history.

Juliane Bischoff is a curator and works at the interface of art and social theory.

Further information about Juliane Bischoff and an insight into her career can be found in the interview “Drei Fragen an Juliane Bischoff – die neue künstlerische Leiterin der Klosterruine Berlin” in Kultur Mitte magazine: Drei Fragen an Juliane Bischoff – die neue künstlerische Leiterin der Klosterruine Berlin – Kultur Mitte

Christopher Weickenmeier, born in Virginia Beach in 1989, began his curatorial career after completing his master’s degree at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen in 2018. His previous projects include the group exhibition the dead are losing or how to ruin an exhibition at Klosterruine Berlin with contributions by Henry Wilde alias Antonia Baehr, Tom Engels & Bryana Fritz, Catalina Insignares & Carolina Mendonça, Raimundas Malašauskas and Mårten Spångberg. Together with Nandita Vasanta, he curated meeting with the other as such, but still with works by Natalie Czech and Mirjam Thomann at Bärenzwinger. Another joint curatorial project – this time with Uli Riebel – was back there, a group exhibition at Galerie Nord with Stefan Cantante, Paul DD Smith & Agnes Scherer, Birke Gorm, Rike Horb, Nick Koppenhagen, Marina Naprushkina, Sung Tieu and Yuling Huseh, among others. In the summer of 2024, he developed the performance program Cruising the End Times together with Creamcake and Babes Bar, which was realized as part of the exhibition playground – for accepting your mortality curated by Ute Müller-Tischler and Solvej Ovesen. He has also collaborated with the performance artists Clara Reiner and Max Brands.

Sebastian Häger, born in 1979, lives and works in Berlin. Between 2006 and 2009, he was part of an artists’ collective that artistically revitalized the former Kindl brewery in Neukölln. In 2015, he completed his Master of Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts; his works were regularly shown as part of the annual UdK tour. From 2016 to 2018, he worked as an assistant for urban culture and art in urban space for the district of Berlin-Mitte. During this period, he was also part of the artistic direction of the Bärenzwinger Lab and curator of several exhibitions. As artistic project manager, he was responsible for the annual program of exhibitions for a speculative audience at galerie weisser elefant. Sebastian Häger works at the interface of artistic and curatorial practice.