About

Berlinklusion is a network for accessibility in art and culture. Led by Kate Brehme, Dirk Sorge, Jovana Komnenic and Kirstin Broussard, a mix of disabled and non-disabled artists and arts mediators. We create inclusive and accessible art projects and provide advice to arts organisations. 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 10 years of experience working with artists or cultural participants with disabilities in Germany and abroad. Thus, over the years we have built a network. A network with more than 200 contacts in the field of disability arts, people with disabilities or people without disabilities who work inclusively. Together, Berlinklusion has advised organisations such as KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, The Bauhaus Archive and Documenta, and initiated projects including 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’…