Jury 2026
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Britta Peters
Britta Peters works as a curator specialising in art in public spaces. She has been the Artistic Director of Urbane Künste Ruhr since January 2018. Previously, she was the curator of Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017 in a team with Marianne Wagner and Kasper König as the Artistic Director. With a background in Cultural Studies, she has curated various major exhibition projects in Hamburg, including as director of Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof from 2008 to 2011. After the exhibition Demonstrationen. Vom Werden normativer Ordnungen 2012 at the Frankfurter Kunstverein, in 2014 she curated the project Krankheit als Metapher. Das Irre im Garten der Arten at various locations in Hamburg. Peters has participated internationally in numerous committees, events, and publications on the topic of art in public space and has taught as a visiting professor at the Academy of Art in Münster.
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Cornelia Offergeld
Cornelia Offergeld is the Curatorial director of KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien. In addition to various engagements, for example at the Free Academy Moscow (1998) or for Art in Public Space Lower Austria, she curated projects for public space such as Time and Space Died Yesterday, a neo-futuristic opera (2010), or developed – in the sense of Augusto Boal's "Invisible Theater" – formats such as 7 Days, performances in public space Vienna (2013). She was founding curator for the art section at the museum Erlauf Erinnert (2015) and is chair of the Big Art advisory board for art & construction. In her academic work, she deals, among other things, with the memory of the city and the manifestations of collective memory.
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Vlado Velkov
Vlado Velkov is the head of Augmented Studies, an experimental program exploring augmented reality and contemporary art. The program runs international AR exhibitions and educational projects in Berlin, Los Angeles, and Baghdad. Velkov previously worked as the artistic director of Kunstverein Arnsberg and as an assistant professor in the sculpture department at Weißensee Art Academy in Berlin. His notable publications include "Public Abstraction" (2016) and "Zeitgeister" (2023). Velkov's interdisciplinary practice focuses on public space, nature, and water. In 2017, he initiated the water-exhibition "Odyssee" and recently the foundation of a Wasserkunstverein in Brandenburg called "Kohlengrube".