Welcome. I am a curator of contemporary art
2026//
Fliedergarten
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Curated with Cornelia Grassi
Feb–May
2025//
Healing Through Fatigue
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Curated with Fabienne Finkbeiner
Mar—May
2024//
2023//
Ursula Biemann, Korpys / Löffler, Martha Rosler, Klaus vom Bruch, Seebrücke e. V., Über den Tellerrand and others
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Dec–Feb 24
Matter of Alliances
Heidelberger Kunstverein
Curated with Mehveş Ungan
Feb—Apr
2022//
2021//
2020//
2019//
On the Global Economy of Inequality
Ursula Biemann, Wang Bing, Bureau d'Études, Alice Creischer, Melanie Gilligan, Ulrike Grossarth, Fred Lonidier, Richard Mosse, Marion von Osten, Lisa Rave, Cameron Rowland and others
Kunstmuseum Basel
Dec—May 20
On the Global Economy of
Inequality
On the Global Economy of
Inequality
Colin Crouch, Alice Creischer,
Stephan Lessenich, Felwine Sarr,
Hito Steyerl and others
2018//
2017//
120 years after the first Zionist Congress
Kunstmuseum Basel
Curated with Tuula Rasmussen
Nov—Mar 18
2016//
2015//
John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Harun Farocki, Andrea Fraser, Nina Könnemann, Louise Lawler, Sherrie Levine, Michaela Meise, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and others
Kunstmuseum Basel
Aug—Jan 16
Destabilizing Canonical Meaning
Conversation with Jan Verwoert
In: The Future is Here
Mousse Publishing
Die instabile Konvergenz und
das altmodische Saalblatt
Gespräch mit Barbara Reisinger
In: all-over 09
2014//
System & Symptom
Josef Albers, Vito Acconci, Hanne Darboven, Andrea Fraser, On Kawara, Henrik Olesen, Falke Pisano, Simon Starling, Octavian Trauttmansdorff and others
Kunstmuseum Basel
Oct—Apr 2015
Aufstand der Sprache mit
Marcel Broodthaers
Kunstmuseum Basel
Mar—Aug
2013//
2012//
A wavy line is drawn across the
middle of the original plans
Chantal Akerman, Ruth Buchanan,
Sara Deraedt, Lasse Schmidt Hansen,
Marie Lund, Nicole Wermers, Heimo
Zobernig and others
Kölnischer Kunstverein
Apr—Jun
2011//
Eva Arnqvist, Jeremy Deller & Alan Kane, Annika Eriksson, Jens Haaning, Martin Krenn, Christian Philipp Müller, Joanna Rajkowska, R.E.P (Kyiv), Erzen Shkololli, Helene Sommer, Jaro Varga and others
Grazer Kunstverein & Steirischer Herbst
Sep—Dec
2010//
With Kamal Aljafari, Yael Bartana, Ursula Biemann, Mircea Cantor, Esra Ersen, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Ruth Kaaserer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisl Ponger, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Solmaz Shahbazi, Hito Steyerl, Jasmila Zbanic and many others
Final chapter
Grazer Kunstverein
Mar—Nov
2009//
2008//
Martin Beck, Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Silke Otto-Knapp, Camilla Løw, Giles Round, Nora Schultz, Pernille Kapper-Williams and others
A film by Ulrike Meinhof was shown and designs by Arnold Bode, Paul Klee and Gustav Klucis were appropriated
Grazer Kunstverein & Steirischer Herbst
Oct—Dec
Luca Frei, Marine Hugonnier,
Sean Snyder
Grazer Kunstverein
Curated in dialogue with
WHW, Zagreb/Vienna and
Ana Bakic, Zagreb
Jun—Aug
2007//
With Anni Albers, Saim Demircan, Heidrun Holzfeind, Katarzyna Kobro, Hilary Lloyd, Vaclav Pozarek, Lasse Schmidt-Hansen and others
Grazer Kunstverein & Steirischer Herbst
Sep—Dec
Was listed in Best Themed Shows in 2007 by Frieze magazine (2008)
Catalog with Ruby Sircar and others
2006//
Eine Person allein in einem Raum
mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden
With Liam Gillick, Julian Goethe, Sanja
Ivekovic, Janice Kerbel, Bernd Krauss,
Little Warsaw, Andreas Neumeister, Mai-
Thu Perret, Jozef Robakowsky, Silke Schatz,
Lasse Schmidt Hansen, Octavian Trauttman-
sdorff, Jeronimo Voss and others
Grazer Kunstverein
Jan—Mar
Catalog with Jan Verwoert
2005//
Ausstellungsautorschaft
Die Konstruktion der auktorialen Position
des Kurators bei Harald Szeemann
Monografie
With more than 60 contributors
(individual names are not emphasized here)
As part of
Whatever Happened to Social Democracy?,
curated by Charles Esche
Rooseum Malmø
Curated with Jan Verwoert
Designed with Lise Harlev
Jan—Apr
2004//
Atelier Europa by Marion von Osten
With Judith Hopf, kpd (Kleines postfordisti-
sches Drama), Angela McRobbie, Michaela
Mélian, Team PingPong, René Pollesch,
Antek Walczak and many others
Kunstverein München
Member of the project team and co-initiator
together with Marion von Osten
Curated with Marion von Osten
Mar—Jun
Text with Marion von Osten
2003//
An Archive, three case-studies and three Talkshows
With Mabe Bethonico, Liam Gillick and others
Kunstverein München
Curated with Maria Lind
Oct—Nov
Ein soziokulturelles Manöver / With Michael Beutler, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Esra Ersen, Matias Faldbakken, Luca Frei, Bernd Krauß, Sofie Thorsen, Carla Zaccagnini and many others
Kunstverein München
Curated with Maria Lind, Katharina Schlieben and Tessa Praun
Mar—May
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren
With Kamal Aljafari, Yael Bartana, Ursula Biemann, Mircea Cantor, Esra Ersen, Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani, Ruth Kaaserer, Rosalind Nashashibi, Lisl Ponger, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Anri Sala, Solmaz Shahbazi, Hito Steyerl, Jasmila Zbanic and many others
A series of festivals, screenings and archives which Søren initiated in Hamburg, Bremen, Oldenburg in 2001, and from 2002 continued with Maria Lind and others at the Kunstverein München, and has since been shown in 9 European countries and 14 institutions
Kunstverein München
Curated with Maria Lind
Mar—Nov
2002//
Eine Ausstellung zum Thema Weggehen /
An Exhibition on the Subject of Going Away
With Roman Dziadkiewicz, Lise Harlev,
Laura Horelli, Ruth Kaaserer, Deimantas
Narkevicius, Marion von Osten, Silke
Otto-Knapp, Anri Sala, Jun Yang and others
Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok
Jan—Feb
2001//
Es ist schwer das Reale zu berühren
With Calin Dan, Ruth Kaaserer, Nina Könnemann, Oliver Ressler, Anri Sala, Hito Steyerl, Nasrin Tabatabei and others.
First chapter in a series of screenings and other formats which Søren initiated in 2001 at different places such as bureau-k or Golden Pudel Club in Hamburg, Kulturkreis der Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg and others.
From 2002 the project continued colla-boratively with Maria Lind and team at
the Kunstverein München, and has been
grown through 9 European countries
and 14 institutions until 2011.
With A-Clip (Stephan Geene, Ariane Müller),
Babak Afrassiabi, Sadie Benning, Calin Dan,
Rainer Ganahl, Nina Könnemann, Hilary Lloyd,
Kristin Lucas, Jozef Robakowski, Hito Steyerl,
Nasrin Tabatabei, Susanne Winterling and
many others
Bonner Kunstverein, Künstlerforum and
Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn
May
2000//
With Fiona Banner, Ayse Erkmen, Johan Grimonprez, Nathalie Melikian, Marcel Odenbach, Johannes Schweiger, Wolfgang Tillmans and others
Frankfurter Kunstverein
Aug—Oct
Catalog with Jan Verwoert