Fluid Spaces: Exploring Decentralized Approaches to Urban Curating
Book Release Party
11 OCTOBER 2025 / 19:00-04:00
ZK/U BerlinSiemensstr. 27, 10551, Berlin, Germany
Fluid Spaces. Curating Decentralities. A Seekult Festival Reader documents and reflects on the 13th SeeKult Festival 2023 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance. The publication explores how urban spaces can be reimagined, collectively experienced, and participatively shaped.
Over ten days in October 2023, more than forty events across twelve venues invited visitors to question urban structures and explore new possibilities for action. A bold poster campaign with slogans like “Claim your space” and “Discuss, poster the city” already set the tone for an active, open, and inclusive approach beyond conventional curatorial and educational frameworks.
The publication mirrors this participatory spirit, connecting feminist and queer perspectives, local research, and sustainable uses of existing urban structures. It highlights alternative mappings of the city, communal gatherings, and artistic interventions that blur boundaries between art, society, and everyday life.
To mark the book’s release, a Book Launch and Release Party will take place on Saturday, 11 October 2025. The evening begins with a presentation and open discussion featuring Gilly Karjevsky (Floating University), Matthias Einhoff (ZK/U), and the editors Jil Mena Tischer and Lilli Kim Schreiber, addressing the question: What even is urban curating?
Following the discussion, the celebration continues with music by Henri Haeckel, DJ Killing, Moss b2b Daschkey, and Younes Jamil b2b Carl Raban, until 4 a.m.
Lilli Kim Schreiber is a freelance journalist and researcher. She studied at Zeppelin University and Sciences Po and has been working since 2023 for the Senior Professorship for the Sociology of the Art Field and the Creative Industries. She is also involved in projects of the Arab-German Young Academy (AGYA). Her work focuses on the intersection of sociological inquiry and cultural policy strategies with regard to artistic, cultural, and ethnographic productions, their exhibition contexts, and their (post-)colonial implications.
Jil Mena Tischer is a producer, curator, and organizer. She studies Culture, Communication & Management at Zeppelin University and UC Berkeley and works at the intersection of cultural production, photography, and urban curating. Her focus lies in developing and realizing interdisciplinary projects that connect artistic practice with critical spatial analysis, addressing questions of participation and alternative forms of cultural mediation.
Entry from 19:00
Start 20:00 – 04:00
10–20 € donation (or buy a book)