Cultural schooling and cultural participation involving a broad viewers signify the important thing subjects of the panel dialogue “Engage. Culture for everybody“, which is hosted by the Volkswagen Group in Berlin and opens for the general public later at this time. In the symposium, representatives from museums, universities, media companys and the company world are going to debate possibilities that hyperlink cultural experiences with the dedication to openess, inspiration and variety.

A wealthy and far-reaching tradition is likely one of the pillars of a free society because it spurs discoures, tolerance and progress. Initiatives and initiatives, which encourage a big viewers to discover and study artistic works and concepts, grow to be an increasing number of important to assist tradition to develop and advance. Based on newest analysis outcomes and progressive use of communication channels, museums and their companions have began already with the event of latest mediation codecs to open tradition and the humanities for brand spanking new viewers teams. The panel dialogue in Berlin is about to supply insights into the work at Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, analysis within the fields of cultural mediation and cultural administration in addition to into using digital communication. This trade of knowhow presents friends with an fascinating outlook on the additional evolution of cultural participation and cultural schooling.

Among the audio system is Benita von Maltzahn, Director Cultural Engagement at Volkswagen Group and founding father of the symposium: “As much as a many other German companies, we are convinced that a strong society is built upon a powerful culture. We work closely with cultural institutions and inventors of art projects to create programs that are easy accessible for all people and attract many generations. Our efforts paved the way for the Volkswagen Group ART4ALL initiative that we have launched five years ago and that we together with our partners continuously enhance. I am grateful that this symposiums allows us to listen to first-hand inputs referring cultural work, science and communication, which might sets frames for concepts that can further improve cultural participation for the largest possible audience.”

The panel dialogue “Engage. Culture for everyone” takes place on the DRIVE. Volkswagen Group Forum (Friedrichstrasse 84, 10117 Berlin) on December 7, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. Please observe that locations for friends are restricted.

Speakers on the panel dialogue:

Prof. Dr. Birgit Mandel
Professor of Cultural Mediation and Cultural Management on the University of Hildesheim, head of the Master’s diploma program in Cultural Mediation and the Bachelor’s diploma program in Cultural Studies and Artistic Practice. Birgit Mandel can also be a member of the supervisory board of Berlin Kulturprojekte GmbH and a member of the board of trustees of the Commerzbank Foundation, for which she developed the “ZukunftsGut” award for institutional cultural mediation, in addition to a member of the board of trustees of the Allianz Foundation. In addition, she is a founding member of the Association for Cultural Management and conducts analysis on the contact factors of cultural mediation, cultural schooling, viewers growth, cultural administration and cultural coverage by working customer research and public surveys.

Till Fellrath
Director of Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin along with Sam Bardaouil since January 2022. Since 2009, Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath have collaborated with over 70 museums worldwide by way of their interdisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented. Most lately, they had been curators of the sixteenth Lyon Biennale in 2022 underneath the title “Manifesto of Fragility”. At the Venice Biennale, they had been curators of the French Pavilion in 2022, in addition to the Pavilions of Lebanon in 2013 and the United Arab Emirates in 2019. In Berlin, they had been affiliate curators on the Gropius Bau from 2017 to 2021, the place they curated the exhibitions “Walking through Walls” (2019) and “Beirut and the Golden Sixties” (2022). Till Fellrath studied political science and economics and holds grasp’s levels from the University of St. Gallen and the London School of Economics. Until 2022, he was Professor of Design-Related Sciences on the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg.

Elena Kountidou
Managing Director of the NGO Neue deutsche Medienmacher*innen (NdM) that fights for extra variety in journalism and towards discrimination within the media world. NdM additionally advises on how you can cope with disinformation and digital violence. A graduate in journalism research, Elena Kountidou has labored for the European broadcaster Arte able the place tradition and media meet. She additionally labored for the German Federal Cultural Foundation in cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and for the Konzerthaus Berlin. As a accomplice of interdisciplinary initiatives, she has developed mediation ideas within the digital house and has obtained quite a few awards for her work.

Benita von Maltzahn
Director Cultural Engagement at Volkswagen Group. Benita von Maltzahn is answerable for Volkswagen Group’s cultural and social engagement actions. Her work focuses on strengthening initiatives that open up cultural schooling and social participation to as many individuals as attainable. She initiated collaborations with worldwide establishments and gamers within the arts and tradition, that made Volkswagen an vital supporter for a wide range of codecs which enabled a big viewers to interact with artistic concepts and works. Her work drove the institution and enlargement of long-standing partnerships with the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA/MoMA PS1), the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the collaboration with the Salzburg Easter Festival in addition to the event of the Music Tech symposia. The Volkswagen Group additionally started collaborating with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and famend establishments in China and the Arab world, whereas the Group intensified its assist for cultural initiatives at its firm areas.

Claudia Ehgartner
Lives in Berlin, studied schooling and artwork historical past in Vienna and accomplished a postgraduate course in communication on the Institute for Cultural Studies. Claudia Ehgartner labored for a few years as a contract artwork and cultural mediator and have become a founding accomplice of the trafo.Okay workplace in 1999. From 2000 to 2007 she headed the artwork schooling division at Kunsthalle Wien and from 2007 to 2018 the artwork schooling and customer service division at mumok, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the core workforce that was answerable for the “ecm” course on the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Since 2018 she has been working as a analysis assistant for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, and since 2023 she has been overseeing the artwork schooling program at Hamburger Bahnhof | Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart Berlin.

Felix von Boehm, host
Born in Heidelberg and raised in Paris. After learning movie research, political science and historical past, Felix von Boehm based the communications company artwork/beats specialised in digital communication for cultural establishments and museums and dealing for shoppers throughout Germany. After learning movie manufacturing on the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg and La Fémis in Paris, the French state movie faculty, he based the movie manufacturing firm LUPA FILM GmbH, with which he produced the Grimme Prize-winning tv collection EDEN (ARD) and the movement image FABIAN that gained the German Film Prize and the Günter Rohrbach Prize.