CAROLA UEHLKEN is a transdisciplinary curator, and artist-researcher based in Berlin. Her research focuses on the entanglement of living and dead material, food, soil and architecture and the many (im)possibilities in knowledge production towards a shift of understanding the human entity as ecosystems. The courtroom, governing systems and the administration apparatus are taken as a tool to reflect upon their performative aesthetics, their linguistics and at the same time bitter effects on marginalised groups, other-than-human species and geopolitical infrastructures. With disobedience, chaos and humour against ruling systems she opens up potential readings of pasts and futures in which collaboration and participation support new, weird, climate-fictional narratives that enable critical perspectives and personal stories in all their complexity.

From 2016 until 2019 Carola Uehlken worked as the Associate Director of the gallery House of Egorn, Berlin, supporting artists from non-European perspectives. Between 2016 and 2018 she ran Babel, a project space on a construction site in Berlin. Research trips are a constant trigger and bring her to places such as Kosovo, Iran, India, Cuba, Romania, China amongst others.  She advises international art collections, organises art festivals, workshops and exhibitions and supports independent projects on the verge between art, science and society in their public outreach since 2020.

Carola Uehlken studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Art in Muenster, Art History, German Literature and Language and was part of the interdisciplinary Master Programme Cultural Poetics and Comparatistic Literature at the Westfälische Wilhelms University. She is writing and publishing art critic articles for artists catalogues and independent publishing platforms.