Doreen Mende (PhD, completed 2014)

Born in East Germany in 1976. Diploma in Music from the University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig. Studies in Electro-Acoustic Music at the Sibelius Akatemia in Helsinki. Education Programme of Documenta11 and 3rd Berlin Biennale. Assistant Curator of Shrinking Cities (KW Institute for Contemporary Art , Berlin 2004), Get Rid of Yourself (Halle 14, Leipzig 2003). Assistant to How Architecture Can Think Socially (symposium, Halle 14, 2002) and Shrinking Cities Music (Palast der Republik, Berlin 2004). Curator of What If ... #2 (JET, Berlin 2005), Ear Appeal (Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien 2006), Not Right But Wrong (JET, Berlin 2007), LOGE (performance/installation series at General Public, Berlin). Doreen Mende has been editing publications in connection with the projects above and texts published in von hundert, Texte zur Kunst, C Magazine. Since 2006, assistant professor in Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice programme at the University of Media Art and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG). Editor-in-Chief of the publication series DISPLAYER, published by HfG. Co-founder of the collective/project space General Public. www.artnews.info/doreenmende

Interests: An exhibition is shaped by a multitude of contexts. Thinking about an exhibition means thinking about its contexts. What is seen when we enter an exhibition? Or to put it another way; what is not seen, and why? How is knowledge shaped and visibility activated? What does a presentation present and represent in an exhibition? How, Where and Why is a piece of art displayed?