Ein Fingerhut voll Utopien
The project focuses on the Goldhauben women of the Braunau district, building a bridge between tradition and future. Through conversations with the Goldhauben women about customs and visions for the future, a textile installation and performance will be developed in a workshop. This serves as a symbol for a new, diverse, and intergenerational community. The collective handwork creates space for storytelling and world-building, drawing inspiration from feminist science fiction. During the Festival of the Regions, the project will become a participatory happening – a celebration that merges tradition and vision, storytelling and collective creation.
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Rosanna Graf (b. 1988, Munich) is an artist, writer, and performer based in Berlin. Her practice encompasses video, performance, and installations structured around experimental texts. Graf interweaves historical, mythological, ethnological, and pop-cultural material, creating speculative narratives featuring feminist, non-human, and grotesque figures. Her surreal worlds question stereotypes through humor and unease.
Graf studied fine arts at HFBK Hamburg and Goldsmiths, University of London. Grants include Stiftung Kunstfonds (2024), Berlin Senate Visual Arts Grant (2023), and Hamburg Visual Arts Grant (2020). Recent solo exhibitions were at Kunsthaus Hamburg (2023) and Galerie Historischer Keller, Berlin (2022). Group exhibitions include Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2022), Kunstmuseum Bochum (2023), Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2020), and Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (2024). Since 2021, she is part of the performance collective DOLLHOUSES and creates video works for theaters including Volksbühne Berlin and Schauspiel Köln.
Lisa Klosterkötter (b. 1990, Cologne, she/her) is an independent curator based in Cologne, specializing in socio-cultural and public-space interventions. She collaborates with artists, collectives, and communities on exhibitions, performances, and participatory formats. Klosterkötter is interim artistic director at Temporary Gallery – Center for Contemporary Art in Cologne since 2024.
Her recent projects include Gegenwart: Doing Youth (Hamburg, 2020/21), Über Brücken – Bridging (Cologne, 2022–24), socio-cultural initiatives Bedarfsgemeinschaft and Snail Kiosk (Urbane Künste Ruhr, 2024), and immersive performances Dollhouses (2021, 2023) and Das öde Haus (Droste-Festival, 2024). She curated Les Gardiennes (Kunstmuseum Bochum, 2022/23), AIC ON – Das sogenannte Draußen (Cologne, 2023), and Temporary Kitchen (Temporary Gallery Cologne, 2023–24). Klosterkötter studied fine arts at Hamburg University of Fine Arts, Royal Academy Stockholm, and German studies at the University of Hamburg.