Nele Kaczmarek in conversation with Antonia Gruber

The new Director of the Kunstverein Nürnberg Nele Kaczmarek in conversation with the artist Antonia Gruber about her current exhibition GOOD WIFE at the Kebbel Villa.

Nele Kaczmarek is an art historian and works as a curator and mediator. From 2016 to 2022 she was curator at Kunstverein Braunschweig, where she realized solo and group exhibitions with artists such as K.R.M. Mooney, Steve Bishop, Carolyn Lazard, Patricia L. Boyd or Karrabing Film Collective and taught at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. She has also (co-)curated projects at the Kunstverein Dresden, SAVVY Contemporary Berlin and Braunsfelder, Cologne, and advised Tangente, St. Pölten/Vienna. After a curatorial fellowship in Seoul, South Korea, Nele Kaczmarek worked as deputy director at IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf since 2023, where she initiated exhibitions and projects with artists such as Becket MWN, Leyla Yenirce, Constance DeJong or Dani and Sheilah ReStack in collaboration with numerous other institutions such as the Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, the Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus or the Videonale Bonn. Since May 2024, Nele Kaczmarek has been Director of the Kunstverein Nürnberg - Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft, where she plans to open up the museum's program more to the interests and impulses of local groups and initiatives.

Antonia Gruber is an artist and photographer. She completed her studies with Prof. Ute Mahler and Ingo Taubhorn at the Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin as a Meisterschülerin in 2020. In 2016, she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Alanus University near Bonn. From 2015 to 2016, she worked as a photo and production assistant for Michael Reisch and Vanessa Leissring. She has received numerous grants and awards, including project funding from the City of Cologne (2023), Projektfonds Kulturförderung, Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (2021), and the Reclaim A-ward (2019). Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Germany, including Galerie Falko Alexander, Cologne (solo exhibition 2024), Japanisches Kultur-institut, Cologne (2024), Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf (2023), Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin (2023), former nuclear shelter, Hemau (2022) and Kunstverein Wesseling (solo exhibition 2020). In 2023, her video "THE GOOD WIFÉS GUIDE" was selected for the competition of the "29th International Short Film Week" in Regensburg.

Admission is free.