Katharina Brenner studied Visual Communication at the Berlin University of the Arts and the Estonian Academy of the Arts and is currently working on her final project A New School, A Summer School at Kunsthochschule Kassel. Since 2019, she has been co-organizing student-led seminars at the Berlin University of the Arts in collaboration with Eine Krise bekommen, In the Meantime and Klasse Klima. As a freelance graphic designer, she has worked for AIGA Eye on Design Magazine, Rimini Berlin, Berlin University of the Arts and Kunsthochschule Kassel, among others.
✉ katharinabrenner@posteo.de
↯ Collective Teaching
A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments, M.1 Hohenlockstedt / Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, August 7–13 2023
Queer Teachings, Workshop, Estonian Academy of the Arts, 2023
Feministischer Songwriting Workshop: Du musst gar nix!, Part of the Exhibition Rewind &Fast Forward of Prof. Anna Anders, SOMA Art Berlin, 2022
Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschule, Workshop, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, 2022
Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen, Blockseminar, Berlin University of the Arts, Studium Generale, Floating Berlin, 2022
Feministische Universität der Künste Berlin, Workshop, UdK 2030 Zukunftstag, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
Feminist Futures, Workshops, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
Eine Krise bekommen: Design & Psychische Gesundheit, Blockseminar, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Floating Berlin, 2021
Climate Supporter‘s Support Group, Studium Generale Kollisionswoche, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
Manifestos on Ethics in Advertising, Workshop, Willem de Kooning Acadamie Rotterdam x Klasse Klima, Berlin University of the Arts, 2020
Klasse Klima, Weekly Seminar, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Winter Semester 2019/20 – Winter Semester 2020/21
↯ Publications, Articles, Interviews, Podcasts
Brenner, Katharina: Was wäre, wenn ... die Kunsthochschule feministisch wäre?, in: Hochschulforum Digitalisierung Blog (2023) URL: https://hochschulforumdigitalisierung.de/de/blog/kunsthochschule-feministisch
Klasse Grafikdesign, Kunsthochschule Kassel: Was ist Design?, in: form 299 – Geld (2023) URL: https://kunsthochschulekassel.de/willkommen/news/klasse-grafikdesign-im-form-design-magazin.html
Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Luisa; Knilli, Lucie Jo: „Wir müssen ihnen leider mitteilen, …“, in: Art.School.Differences (2023) URL: https://blog.zhdk.ch/artschooldifferences/2023/03/02/wir-muessen-ihnen-leider-mitteilen-ein-beitrag-von-eine-krise-bekommen/
Brenner, Katharina; Fischer, Leoni; Somanika, Annika: 23.05.2021: 47 HURRA HURRA x Katharina Brenner und Annika Somanika (Audio-Podcast), in: Hurra Hurra - ein Designpodcast der BURG. URL: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1dz40F9RiQff8Na3xhtBrK?si=2115db1e062e4a99
Baumgarten, Lisa; Leijdekkers, Judith: Conversations continued ... with Katharina Brenner, Luisa Herbst, Destina Atasayar and Lucie Jo Knilli, in: Teaching Design (2021) URL: https://teaching-design.net/A-conversation-with-Katharina-Brenner-Luisa-Herbst-Destina-Atasayar
Brenner, Katharina: Kunsthochschulen, entdiskriminiert euch!, in: Atasayar, Destina; Brenner, Katharina; Herbst, Luisa; Knilli, Lucie Jo (Hrsg.): Eine Krise bekommen, Berlin 2021, S. 129-135. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25624/kuenste-1469 (Mitherausgeberin)
Brenner, Katharina: Glowing Red Letters — How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form., in: Futuress (2021) URL: https://futuress.org/stories/glowing-red-letters/
Hartmann, Moritz: Das Klima kann nicht warten, in: Tagesspiegel (2020) URL: https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wissen/das-klima-kann-nicht-warten-4181353.html