About
The bureau for curatorial research was founded on 24 March 2025 at 6:35 p.m. by Julia Heunemann and Ulrike Riebel to explore the practices, politics and fields of curating in the form of exhibitions and publications.
The bureau for curatorial research opened its doors for the first time on 12 June 2025 at Turmstraße 75, 10551 Berlin.
Team
Julia Heunemann is a cultural and media scholar and works as a curator for contemporary art, as editor, archivist and preliminary examiner for art in architecture competitions.
She is a founding member of the Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt and chair of the board of the art association Kunstverein Tiergarten.. Julia Heunemann lehrte an der Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK) und der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, an der sie aktuell ihre Dissertation zur historischen Erforschung der Tiefsee erarbeitet.
Julia Heunemann has catalogued and researched large parts of the ‘Artist Files’ of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and of the Mail Art Archive of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt and Robert Rehfeldt. In her curatorial practice, she explores the relationships between knowledge, collections and art, bringing contemporary art, everyday objects, scientific instruments and archival materials into multi-layered dialogues. She publishes on art and topics related to the history of knowledge and has curated exhibitions at venues including the Chisinau Circus Building (Republic of Moldova), the Bärenzwinger Berlin, the galerie weisser elefant (now Kunst Raum Mitte) in Berlin, the museum FLUXUS+ in Potsdam, the Kommunale Galerie Berlin,, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten , and for the Brandenburg Gate Foundation at the Max Liebermann Haus (in preparation).
She lives and works in Berlin.
Ulrike Riebel studied philosophy and curating in Leipzig, Reykjavík and Vienna. She is co-founder of the art association Plusnull e.V. and the project space Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, which has been active since 2010. Since 2020, she has been a member of the board of the Kunstverein Tiergarten. art association.
In her practice, she focuses on the development of new and experimental curatorial arrangements. This work is characterised by the breaking down of traditional exhibition formats and takes place in spaces that question the classic display of art. She has curated exhibitions at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, at Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, at MAK Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, at Bärenzwinger Berlin and the Japanischer Pavillon in Dresden.
Since 2023, she has been further developing her curatorial practice in the Riebel.Rohrbach collective, founding the OFF space for curatorial experiments K29 in Düsseldorf in 2024 and co-editing the M-OFF magazine Takeovers.
She lives and works as a freelance curator in Berlin.
Cooperations
Kunstverein Tiergarten e.V.
Plusnull e.V.
Institut für Alles Mögliche
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