peer to space is an international exhibition platform and a collective of independent curators.

Read a comprehensive interview with peer to space’s team at Generazione Critica.

Tina Sauerlaender, PhD, Co-Founder & Co-Director

Fields Of Expertise: History of Digital Art, Virtual Reality, Self-Representation in Digital Art

Tina Sauerlaender (she/her) is an art historian, curator, speaker and writer. She holds a PhD from The University of Arts, Linz, Austria. The title of her dissertation is PERFORMING IDENTITIES. Self-Representation in Art from the Renaissance to Virtual Worlds. In conjunction with her PhD she has curated the online exhibition performingidentities.net. She is Artistic Director of the VR ART PRIZE by DKB in Cooperation with CAA Berlin. She has been curating and organizing international group shows since 2010, e.g. The Unframed World. Virtual Reality as Artistic Medium for the 21st Century at House of Electronic Arts Basel in 2017. She is Co-founder of Radiance VR, an international online platform and research database for virtual reality experiences in visual arts as well as the Radiance VR App, an app for VR Art for Meta Quest headsets. Together with curator Erandy Vergara she developed the exhibition series Critical Approaches in Virtual Reality Art and realized projects like Speculative Cultures. A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition (Kellen Gallery, Parsons/The New School, New York, 2019). She is the Founder of the SALOON, an international network for women working in art. She is a lecturer for Digital Art History at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) in Bielefeld, Germany. She gave many talks on Virtual Reality & Art at re:publica (Berlin), ZKM (Karlsruhe), New Inc (New York), Kunsthalle (Munich), University of Applied Arts (Vienna), Digifest (Toronto), Technical University (Prague) or Roehrs & Boetsch (Zurich).

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Peggy Schoenegge, Co-Director & Senior Curator

Fields Of Expertise: Performance in XR, Artificial Intelligence

Peggy Schoenegge (she/her) is an independent curator, writer and project manager at peer to space as well as chairwoman of the media art association in Berlin. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in Art History by Humboldt-University Berlin and Technical University Berlin and spent a year at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (JP). Her work deals with the conditions and challenges of digitalization and its effects on our everyday life, society and culture. Specifically, she addresses gender, performance, and artificial intelligence by curating digital art, internet art and art with new media such as VR or AR in both real and virtual exhibition spaces. She gives lectures and participates in panel discussions internationally at conferences and events such as the VRHAM! Virtual Reality & Arts Festival, WISE Conference or for the Goethe-Institute. Currently she teaches at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt in expanded reality. Selected curatorial projects include SPECULATIVE CULTURES. A Virtual Reality Art Exhibition (Parsons Gallery/ New School, New York), TOUCHING FROM A DISTANCE. Transmediations in the Digital Age (Literaturhaus Berlin), PENDORAN VINCI. Art & Artificial Intelligence Today (NRW Forum, Düsseldorf).

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Mara-Johanna Kölmel, PhD, Curator

Fields Of Expertise: (Post-)Digital Sculpture, Decolonializing the Digital

Mara-Johanna Kölmel (she/her) is a London based curator and art historian with a special interest in (post-)digital culture and art. She has worked in curatorial roles internationally for the Biennale of Sydney, the Kunsthalle Hamburg, and with the curatorial collective Approved by Pablo she has realised exhibitions at Somerset House and The Silver Building in London. Mara obtained her MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London (2013-2014). She holds a BA in Cultural Studies (2009-2013) from Leuphana University in Germany, where she is currently completing the PhD Sculpture in the Augmented Field (2015-today). Her research examines how digital technologies are configuring our understanding of sculpture and the sculptural act. She is a founding member of the artistic collective Dori O., the UCL based research group Data Power: Activisms/Appropriations/Aesthetics and the digital culture institution Kara Agora funded by the Culture of Solidarity Fund. These initiatives bring together international scholars, curators, activists and practitioners to explore the digital sphere as a site for methodological experimentation, social activism and artistic intervention. Mara’s writings have appeared in Art Bulletin, Texte zur Kunst and Die Nadel. She is a co-editor of the forthcoming anthology Dada Data. Contemporary Art Practice in the Era of Post-Truth Politics (2021), co-organisor of the symposium The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age (2021) at the Central Institute of Art History in Munich and co-founder of SALOON London, a network for women in the London art world.

Gloria Aino Grzywatz, Curator

Fields Of Expertise: Political Perspectives, Diversity & Feminism

Gloria Aino Grzywatz (she/her) is is an art historian and author based in Berlin. She is the curator of PARS PRO TOTO, peer to space’s online screening series. She holds an MA in philosophy, science of art and cultural education from the Technical University of Berlin and was a scholarship holder at the University Sorbonne in Paris. Her work focuses on identity, cultural policy, activism and contemporary architecture. As a freelance art mediator, she has been working intensively on the topics of diversity, accessibility and participation in the field of art since 2015. In addition to her work at peer to space, she is currently working for the KW Institute for Contemporary Art, the 11th Berlin Biennale and Radiance VR, which is a research platform and database for VR art. She has just started with her PhD in the field of contemporary architecture and cultural policy between Eastern and Western Europe.

Valentina Peri, Curator

Fields Of Expertise: Love and Intimacy in the Digital Age / Media Histories / Technologies in the Anthropocene 

Valentina Peri (she/her) is an independent curator, cultural critic and author based in Paris. Her work examines the role of technology in contemporary culture, with a focus on love and intimacy in the digital age, media histories and technologies in the Anthropocene. She has curated exhibitions, published writing and given lectures on a broad range of topics in these areas, including data collection and surveillance, the commodification of desire, representation and identity, media ecologies and new materialism. From 2011-21, Valentina was associate director and curator at Galerie Charlot Paris – Tel Aviv, where she curated numerous exhibitions with internationally renowned artists, such as Quayola, Eduardo Kac, Sabrina Ratté, Manfred Mohr, !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Addie Wagenknecht. Among the most recent exhibitions she has curated: “Systems Under Liberty” (Paris, 2015), "Archeonauts" (Paris, 2017; Tel Aviv, 2018), "Quayola - Remains" (Paris, 2018), “Dominique Pétrin - Pompei MMXIX” (Paris, 2019) "Nicolas Sassoon - Subterranea" (Paris, 2020). Her travelling exhibition Data Dating has been presented in France, Israel and the UK between 2018 et 2020. In the context of this group show, she co-edited an essay collection published by Intellect: Data Dating. Love, Technology, Desire (2021). She has given talks about love and technology at ZKM (Karlsruhe), Watermans Art Centre (London), Université Paris VIII (Paris), Accademia di Brera (Milan) and PSL (Paris), among others. She is also a co-founder of SALOON Paris, an international and diverse network of women identifying art professionals, in Paris and many other cities.

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Petra Ronzani, Social Sustainability Advisor & Curator

Fields Of Expertise: Social Sustainability in the Arts, Transformation Processes, Communication Strategies

Petra Ronzani (she/her) is a Berlin based communication and sustainability expert as well as a mediator. She is equally invested in researching and shaping our current communication environments as well as the future ones. Her multicultural background has made her what you could call xenoman. She studied Chinese, Economics and Arts Management in Stuttgart, Beijing and Newcastle upon Tyne. In 2021 she additionally certified as a Mediator and a Sustainability in the Arts Advisor. Throughout her career she has been managing transformation processes, building, leading teams and mediating - between people, hierarchies, between today and tomorrow with sensitivity, experience and humor. After more than 15 years in leading positions at institutions such as the Haus der Kunst in Munich, the Bavarian State Opera, the Berlin Volksbühne or Henn Architects, she founded the Ronzani & Partner in 2021. Together with a team of experts with skills ranging from ethics in the Metaverse, e-learning, communication strategies to diversity-consultancy the company offers advice to those who feel the future is equal to the present. Currently she researches the relationship of classical state-owned cultural institutions and their attitude towards the Metaverse.

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PEER TO SPACE’S HISTORY

March 2010 – June 2014

peer to space was founded by Maja Block and Tina Sauerlaender in Munich, Germany in 2010. With interdisciplinary exhibitions, workshops and other projects, peer to space presents new forms of expressions and approaches in young contemporary art. peer to space serves as a platform for artistic exchange of knowledge and experience focusing on digital and Internet art, performances and photography. From 2010 to 2012 Maja Block and Tina Sauerländer realized the projects Multiplex, SCHHPLTTLR electric beats, DREI / 3 / III, Identity Reset? and Non-Stop Infinity. From 2012 on Maja Block runs peer to space in Munich and Tina Sauerlaender in Berlin, where she has organized and curated the shows Entering Space and VISUAL NOISE.

July 2014 – December 2017

Tina Sauerlaender runs peer to space on her own in Berlin. The initial focus on Digital and Internet art, performances and photography has been broadened. peer to space explores current threads within different areas of international contemporary art. Subject based group exhibitions link content- or media-based relations of diverse artistic approaches. They merge attitudes, conceptions and ideas. peer to space provides relevant indications and references for contemporary mindsets and thoughts not only artistically, but also on a societal level. Peggy Schoenegge joins as project manager in April 2016.

January 2018 – March 2020

Project manager and curator Peggy Schoenegge and Tina Sauerlaender become the main team of peer to space. With the development of new Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies peer to space focuses on exhibitions that include VR/AR and that explore how artists from different backgrounds working in different media deal with the conditions and effects of the digital and the Internet on our personal lives and our society. Sue Bachmeier joins the team in July 2019 to work on peer to space’s online exhibitions together with Peggy Schoenegge.

Since April 2020

In April 2020, Gloria Aino Grzywatz joins the peer to space team and takes over the curatorial responsibility for PARS PRO TOTO, the online screening series of peer to space. In September 2020, London-based Mara Johanna-Kolmel joins the team as Associate Director & Curator (2019-2023). Together with Tina Sauerlaender she curated the online exhibition Bunch of Kunst in Quarantine // Paradox Paradise. In May 2021, Paris-based independent curator Valentina Peri joins the team as guest curator. The whole team of peer to space continue to realize international exhibitions that focus on the impact of the digital and the internet on our personal lives and society.