Katia Hermann

French-German art historian, curator and writer. After her studies of art history and cultural management in Paris, Katia moved to Berlin in 2001. For twenty years, she has worked as a freelance exhibition-maker/curator, cultural manager, writer and translator. After working for documentary film- and exhibition productions, she curated thematic exhibitions of modern & contemporary art and photography for institutions, project spaces and galleries. She always endeavors to promote artists with contemporary relevant topics, new visual languages, and tries to mediate to a wide public. After her research grant for fine arts with the topic Urban Art Berlin (Berliner Senate Department of Culture and Europe) in 2017, she initiated and coordinated the Urban Art Week in Berlin in 2018 and 2019. The photo exhibition BERLIN: WRITING GRAFFITI started 2019 to tour to Brussels with a publication. Beside her curatorial practice, Katia gives art tours and writes about urban art, contemporary art, and in particular about post-graffiti painters for magazines and blogs.