Katharina Brenner (no pronouns or she/her) works at the intersection of institutional critique, queer feminism, mental health, and activism, developing collaborative learning and design formats. Katharina is currently working as a Research Associate in the FEMPOWER project at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle and as a lecturer at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin. Katharina studied Visual Communication at the University of the Arts Berlin, the Estonian Academy of the Arts, and the Kassel University of Art, and co-initiated the student-organized seminars Klasse Klima and Eine Krise bekommen.
✉ katharinabrenner(at)posteo.de
Impressum und Datenschutz
↯ Collective Teaching
Zeitschrift für institutionelles Verdauen und studentische Kritik, Seminar in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin, June 2025 (UPCOMING)
Feministischer Songwriting Workshop x Rage Reading Room, Workshop, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, May 9, 2025 (UPCOMING)
Witchy Wishes, Cross-institutional workshop series in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Braunschweig University of Art, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2024 – January 2025
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Braunschweig University of Art
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Kunsthochschule Kassel
Collaborative Curricula, workshop in collaboration with Laris Bäucker, UdK 2030 Zukunftstag, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2024
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments, Summer School in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli, Charlotte Perka and Lioba Wachtel, M.1 Hohenlockstedt / Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Berlin University of the Arts, 2023
🔗 Link to the project website
🔗 Link to an article about the summer school published at Lerchenfeld Magazine (HfbK Hamburg)
Selbsthilfegruppe Arbeit, Arbeit, Arbeit, self-organized support group in collaboration with friends, 2023–2025
Queer Teachings, Workshop in collaboration with Michael Fowler, Estonian Academy of the Arts, 2023
Feministischer Songwriting Workshop: Du musst gar nix!, Workshop, part of the Exhibition Rewind & Fast Forward of Prof. Anna Anders, Berlin University of the Arts, SOMA Art Berlin, 2022
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschule, Workshop in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, 2022
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen, Blockseminar in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Floating Berlin, 2022
🔗 Link the the seminar announcement
🔗 Link to an article we wrote about the seminar at the blog of Art. School.Differences (ZhdK)
Feministische Universität der Künste Berlin, Workshop, UdK 2030 Zukunftstag, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
🔗 Link to an article about the workshop at the blog of Hochschulforum Digitalisierung
Feminist Futures (BA project), Workshops, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the announcement website
🔗 Link to the documentation website
Eine Krise bekommen: Design & Psychische Gesundheit, Blockseminar in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Floating Berlin, 2021
🔗 Link to the seminar announcement
Climate Supporter‘s Support Group, Blockseminar ("Kollisionswoche") in collaboration with Ju Rosenstock, Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the seminar announcement
Manifestos on Ethics in Advertising, Workshop in collaboration with Bernd Grether, Berlin University of the Arts, Willem de Kooning Acadamie Rotterdam, 2020
🔗 Link to the workshop documentation
Klasse Klima, Weekly Seminar in collaboration with the Klasse Klima and Constanze Hein, Bernd Grether and Wenzel Mehnert, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Winter Semester 2019/20 and Winter Semester 2020/21
🔗 Link to the website of Klasse Klima
↯ Articles, Publications and Interviews
Praktiken widerspenstiger Lernräume – Netzwerk Diskriminierungskritik an Kunsthochschulen, Interview in collaboration with Francesca Romana Audretsch, Sevda Güler and Hagen Verleger, in: Mayer, Ulli; Ellmeier, Andrea; Müller, Gerda (Hrsg.). Ver_Üben. Diversität als diskriminierungskritische Praxis in Kunst, Kultur und universitärer Bildung., transcript, 2025.
🔗 Link to the publication
Praktiken widerspenstiger Lernräume (Master project), Publication, Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2024
🔗 Link to project website
Wir bekommen eine Krise, Interview in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli and Bianca Seidel, Design Melodrama, 2023
🔗 Link to interview
Was wäre, wenn ... die Kunsthochschule feministisch wäre?, Article, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung Blog, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
Was ist Design?, Collective article in collaboration with Rebecca Stephany and the graphic design class of Kunsthochschule Kassel, form 299 – Geld, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
„Wir müssen ihnen leider mitteilen, …“, Article in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Art.School.Differences, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
47 HURRA HURRA x Katharina Brenner und Annika Somanika, Podcast in collaboration with Leoni Fischer and Annika Sominka, Hurra Hurra - ein Designpodcast der BURG, 2023
🔗 Link to the podcast
Conversations continued ... with Katharina Brenner, Luisa Herbst, Destina Atasayar and Lucie Jo Knilli, Interview in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lisa Baumgarten, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli and Judith Leijdekkers, Teaching Design, 2021
🔗 Link to the interview
Eine Krise bekommen, Publication in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the publication
Kunsthochschulen, entdiskriminiert euch!, Article in: Eine Krise bekommen, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the article
Glowing Red Letters — How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form., Article, Futuress, 2021
🔗 Link to the article
↯ Critical Design Practice
Infoposter Support Team, Support Team of the Music Faculty of the Berlin University of the Arts, 2024
🔗 Link to the Support Team
Logo design for the AG Frauenförderung and the Support Team, Faculty of Music of the Berlin University of the Arts, 2022 + 2024
Sauna Sisterhood, University Project, Estonian Academy of Arts, 2023
Poster campaign "Nähe und Distanz im Alltag einer Hochschule", AG Frauenförderung of the Music Faculty of the Berlin University of the Arts, 2023
🔗 Link to the event
Website for the Rundgang of the Berlin University of the Arts 2022, in collaboration with Lilli Joppien and Karen Czock, Berlin University of the Arts, 2022
🔗 Link to the website
Website for the Symposium Re: New European Bauhaus. For A Just Design of Climate Politics, in collaboration with Karen Czock, Klasse Klima, Berlin University of the Arts, 2022
🔗 Link to the website
Messy Histories, University Project, Class of Information Design, Berlin University of the Arts, 2018
