Queer Art Bridge Berlin Meet-up

As an international, diverse city, Berlin is a safe haven for many queer artists who, for personal or political reasons, have left their country or have other migration experiences.

Berlin however can also be a challenging place to thrive professionally and creatively, build networks, find funding, commissions or workspaces due to high competition, bureaucratic hurdles and sometimes language barriers.

In order to overcome various challenges in terms of access to cultural participation, we at Village Berlin have launched a new network meeting as part of our Queer Art Bridge programme.

This meeting gives queer artists and cultural practitioners with and without refugee and migration experience, representatives from art and higher education institutions and other actors of the Berlin cultural scene the opportunity to make contacts in an informal setting to exchange ideas, stories and experiences.

Connection, support and opportunities for queer international artists

Because we believe that art and culture can be a powerful platform for change and self-development while enriching and diversifying existing cultural structures and art scenes through new, international queer inspiration.

In cooperation with the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt (Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion), we are village | queer matters has set itself the goal to offer a programme of events throughout 2024 to enable queer migrant artists to find their footing on the Berlin art scene.

Nicholé Velásquez grew up in New York and emigrated to Berlin in 2011. Introduced to art by Rika Burnham at the Met, he continued developing his art as a Jocelyn Benzakin fellow at the International Center for Photography in 2005. In 2018 he was laureate of Le Prix Industries et Cultures / Art Faber for his depictions of just-in-time industrial processes. Alongside his art, Nicholé worked as curatorial assistant at the Bumiller Collection from 2017 to 2020 and developed the first curatorial fellowship at Otte1 in 2023. At Otte1 he curated intergenerational dialogues with a focus on feminist programming. Nicholé and is an active member of the BBK and IKG (Internationales Künstlergremium).

General Information
Language: We’ll speak English and/or German, depending on the needs of the group.
Cost: This event is free.