Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice: Solvej Helweg Ovesen

A series of talks organised by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter

Solvej Helweg Ovesen (Humboldt Forum): Deep CuratingThis talk introduces the concept of Deep Curating, an approach that understands exhibition-making as an ongoing and collaborative creative process. More than a method, it’s a leadership form built on feedback loops – where strategy evolves through team reflection, peer exchange, and aesthetic growth. Deep Curating integrates every layer of exhibition creation, fusing content, rhythm, and design into a dynamic whole. Rooted in care and sustainability, this approach reshapes how we think about artistic production, turning wasted resources into time – time to recycle creativity, nurture meaning, and foster lasting impact. It’s a circular, ever-evolving practice that enriches both local communities and global cultural debates.Solvej Helweg Ovesen's talk provides an analysis of how curatorial practices can contribute to shaping exhibitions as well as future urban and creative environments. It offers insights, ruptures, examples from long‑term curatorial practice, and considerations on how curating can support ongoing engagement with art and community contexts.

The series ‘Talks on Curatorial and Artistic Practice’ by the OnCurating Academy Berlin and Dorothee Richter, continues at Radialsystem from December 2024, carving out space for critical curatorial thinking as well as new perspectives and formats in the context of curatorial practices. The OnCurating Academy Berlin is an international postgraduate programme and platform that aims to strengthen the community of emerging curators, artists, and cultural workers.

The focus of the series builds upon the platform and the OnCurating postgraduate programme, and aligns with goal of (further) developing cooperative and interdisciplinary working methods. Curating means the creation of innovative structures toward the presentation of cultural artefacts through collaboration. In curatorial practice, art, digital media, design and architecture overlap in new ways that require constant reflection.

Artists/Collaborators: Solvej Helweg Ovesen (Vortrag)

Media partnerships Radialsystem: The Berliner, Rausgegangen, taz - die tageszeitung, tip Berlin.

Next date:

• Date Friday, 15/May/2026 17:00
• Venue Radialsystem V
• Address Holzmarktstraße 33, 10243 Berlin-Friedrichshain