Projects

Charlotte Bank has been working internationally as a freelance curator since 2007 with a focus on modern and contemporary art from the MENA region. She has curated exhibitions as well as film and talk series in collaboration with institutions such as Berlin Biennale, ZKM (Karlsruhe), Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art (Berlin), IfA Galerie Berlin, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), Casino Luxembourg - Centre d'art contemporain, Impakt Festival (Utrecht), De Balie (Amsterdam), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Roskilde / Denmark), DEPO (Istanbul), Atassi Foundation (Dubai).

Visual Arts Festival Damascus (2010 - 2014), co-director.

Founded in Damascus in 2010, the festival existed 2012 - 2014 as a nomadic platform and was a guest at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (2012), DEPO in Istanbul (2013) and ZKM in Karlsruhe (2014).

Art-Lab Berlin (2012 -), co-founder and co-director.

Founded as a multidisciplinary project space with a focus on new discourses of the global art scene and artistic exchange. 2012 - 2017 the project "FORUM for new arab art" was organized as a series that explored new developments and discourses of art in the Arab world and diaspora in exhibitions, screenings, performances and talks. 2018 - 2021 the projects "Arrival City" (2018), "Performing Gender" (2019) and "Where Have All the Jasmines Gone" (2020-21) were organized with the support of the Hautstadtkulturfonds. In 2016, Art-Lab Berlin was awarded the Berlin Senate's "Award for Artistic Project Spaces and Initiatives".

Being the Other. Orientalization and Self-Orientalization

University of Bamberg, 25 - 26 July 2019, workshop organized with students of the elite Master's programme Cultural Studies of the Middle East.

Art and the City: Cities as Global Artistic Sites

Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin, 29 June 2018, conference organized in collaboration with Katrin Nahidi (Freie Universität Berlin).

With the support of the Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin and the working group Art Production and Art Theory in the Context of Global Migration.