Projects

Charlotte Bank has been working internationally as a freelance curator with a focus on modern and contemporary art of the MENA region since 2007. 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 2010 in Damascus, the festival existed 2012 - 2014 as a nomadic platform and was a guest at 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 through exhibitions, screenings, performances and conversations. 2018 - 2021, with the support of Hautstadtkulturfonds, the projects "Arrival City" (2018), "Performing Gender" (2019) and "Where Have All the Jasmines Gone" (2020-21) were organized. In 2016, Art-Lab Berlin was awarded the "Award for Artistic Project Spaces and Initiatives" by the Berlin Senate.

Being the Other. Orientalization and Self-Orientalization.

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

Art and the City: Cities as Global Artistic Sites.

Museum of Islamic Art Berlin, June 29, 2018, conference organized in collaboration with Katrin Nahidi (Freie Universität Berlin).

With the support of the Museum of Islamic Art Berlin and the Working Group Art Production and Art Theory in the Sign of Global Migration.