About

Berlinklusion is a collective of artists and arts mediators with and without disabilities who curate arts projects and advise arts organisations on accessibility. Led by Kate Brehme, Dirk Sorge, Jovana Komnenic and Kirstin Broussard, we seek to positively change Berlin’s cultural landscape by promoting inclusion and improving accessibility for artists, cultural workers, participants and audiences with and without disabilities.

We each have more than 20 years of experience working with artists or cultural participants with disabilities in Germany and abroad. Since our foundation in 2017, Berlinklusion has advised organisations such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Gropius Bau and Berliner Festspiele, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The Bauhaus Archive and Documenta, and initiated our own projects such as UNBOUND, Germany’s first accessible transdisciplinary residency program. Recently curated exhibitions include The Space Between (CLB Berlin, 2023), To/From (Kommunale Galerie, 2023-24) and Unruly Splendour: Exploring Nature Through the Spectrum of Bodies (Galerie in Körnerpark, 2024).

*We use a broad concept of disability and follow the social model of disability. This means that instead of defining a person by their health condition or impairment, we consider disability to be a social construction as people are disabled by barriers. We recognise and respect that disability is defined by each individual and by their lived experiences. When we speak of inclusion and accessibility, we demand it for all people, no matter what they identify themselves as: as sensorially, physically or cognitively disabled or impaired, with learning difficulties, with mental illnesses, diverse, ‘crippled’, ‘mad’…