Mara Unger (*1997) is currently studying for a Master's degree in Art History in Cologne and has been part of the Simultanhalle curatorial team since 2025. During her bachelor's degree, she worked in art education at the Kunsthalle Gießen and as a curator at the art and culture festival GIENNALE (Gießen) and the feminist, cultural-political festival of the Furore-Kollektiv (Gießen). Mara is currently working in an auction house in Cologne.
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My curiosity is always secretly linked to the question: What does this have to do with me? Putting myself in relation to something or someone else, being primed for a topic, devoting myself to details. And what does curiosity have to do with greed? I am curious.
Katharina Poblotzki: EVERY BODY HERE
would like to see FLINTA*, who have been conspiring and testing utopias and solidarity for a long time. I'm interested in snapshots and honest insights.
I've been following Asli on Instagram since November 2019 and have been touched by her craft ever since. Everything seems warm, captured with a soft gaze. I like that. That's how I want to look at my mother.
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