Linnéa Meiners is a Berlin based curator, visual artist and film maker.
She was artistic director of the non-commercial ACUD Galerie in Berlin Mitte in 2023/2024.
In her work as a curator, she deals with structures of art/work, solidarity and accessibility. She has an interest to show artistic positions on possibilities of socially just, sustainable and progressive futures.
Her visual art works deal with the narrative transformation of revolution, art and climate justice. Her focus lies on aesthetics of the resistant in the context of moving image and she often works as part of artistic collectives. Her work includes artistic interventions, activist performances and film art.
Together with Christof Zwiener she curated 2023 the fourth Berlin Britzenale, an open air art festival on sustainability. From 2020 – 2022 she was artistic program director at the municipal Galerie im Turm in Berlin. She also worked as Curatorial Researcher at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, which is directed by Stéphane Bauer. As part of Kommunale Galerien Berlin, she conceived the conference Schöpfen ohne Erschöpfung – Nachhaltigkeit im Kunst- und Kulturbetrieb (Creating without exhaustion – On sustainability in art work) together with Solvej Helweg Ovesen at Zitadelle Spandau in 2022.
She is co-founder and part of the collective BRIMBORIA.
Education
Linnéa Meiners is currently working on a Certificate of Advanced Studies at Zurich University of the Arts. At Academy of Fine Arts Vienna she studied Critical Studies (M.A.) and was part of the class Kunst und Digitale Medien by Constanze Ruhm. Her graduation film Elektropolis – Manual to what kind of revolution was nominated for the category Junger Kurzfilm/Young short film by OWL Kurzfilmtage in 2022. Her master thesis was supervised by Diedrich Diederichsen.
At Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig she was participating for one year in the class Installation and Space. At University of Arts Berlin she studied Communication in Social and Economic contexts (B.A.) with a focus on media archeology and experimental film.
Inquiries for portfolio, collaborations and exchange:
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Grants/exhibitions
Senate Departement of Culture and Social Cohesion: Multi-sector funding for an exhibition series at ACUD Galerie Echoing Futures – On practices of radical imagination
Senate Departement of Culture and Social Cohesion: Two-year basic funding for project spaces and initiatives in the visual arts for ACUD Galerie, 2024 – 2025
Kurzfilmtage OWL: Nomination for the category Junger Kurzfilm/Young short film, 2022
Senate Department for Culture and Europe: Multi-sector Funding for an exhibition series at Galerie im Turm MY WORKING WILL BE THE WORK. on labour, self/care and solidarity, with Jorinde Splettstößer, Berlin 2020 – 2022
Grant of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for film project in Tornio, with Anna-Maria Schneider, Finland/Sweden, 2019
Participation in the exhibition ://spacecommunism/salon#1 at galerie KUB, with BRIMBORIA Collective – in cooperation with Galerie KUB, DIE LINKE Leipzig and linXXnet, sponsored by the Student Council of the University of Leipzig, Leipzig 2018
Filmic contribution to the 6th Athens Biennial ANTI, with Anna-Maria Schneider as part of Apfelfront Collective, Athens 2018
Co-curator of Blühendes Gift – Zur feministischen Appropriation des österreichischen Unbewussten at mumok, with Master Critical Studies, Vienna 2015/16
Grant of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna for film project in Havana, with Delal Isci, Cuba 2015
Cape Abyss, short film, with pseudo random noize/PRN:premiere at ISFF Detmold 2012