Dr. Kate Brehme is a disabled independent curator and arts educator based in Berlin interested in cripping and queering art history, access aesthetics and gardening. Her practice embraces collaboration, crip joy and the space where access meets curating. She makes exhibitions, organises artist residencies, moderates and speaks at symposia, teaches students, advises visual arts organisations, and carries out disability arts advocacy work at state and EU level.
Kate trained initially as an artist, has a Masters in Museum Studies, and completed her doctorate on the contemporary art biennial and urban space at Berlin’s Technical University. Kate has worked in Australia, Scotland and Germany on a variety of independent projects, exhibitions and events, and as an arts educator for organizations such as The National Galleries of Scotland. In 2017, Kate co-founded Berlinklusion, a collective of artists and arts mediators with and without disabilities who curate arts projects and advise arts organisations on accessibility. 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. Kate’s recently curated exhibitions include Queering the Crip, Cripping the Queer, an exhibition on Queer/Disability History, Activism, and Culture (the Schwules Museum, 2022-23), The Space Between (CLB Berlin, 2023), Unruly Splendour: Exploring Nature Through the Spectrum of Bodies (Galerie in Körnerpark, 2024) and In Conversation: Jay Afrisando, (Galerie im Turm, 2025). Kate has taught for NODE Center for Curatorial Studies (2013-2023), the Goethe Institute (2021-22) and for the Masters Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2014-2024). She currently lectures on Disability Art Studies at the University of the Arts (UdK), Berlin. Kate is a member of the Berlin Arts Council (Rat für die Künste) and the European Arts and Disability Cluster (ADICLUS).
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