von Links: Doireann O’Malley, Merle Radtke, Vera Shchelkina.
Credits Vera Shchelkina: photo by Olivia Kwok for the project „Stardust“, courtesy of Ming Poon
Für das Wintersemester 2025/26 freuen wir uns, unsere drei Gastdozent*innen für das Programm „Time Based Media“ begrüßen zu dürfen, Doireann O’Malley, Merle Radke und Vera Shchelkina .
Doireann O’Malleyis an Irish artist based in Berlin. Their research-led practice explores the intersections of collaborative methodologies, meditative and visualization practices, writing, and auto-theory. Working primarily with film, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3D, and video installation, O’Malley’s work investigates the porous boundaries between technology, embodiment, and transformation.
O’Malley was shortlisted to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2024, longlisted for the Preis der Nationalgalerie in Berlin in 2021, and received the Berlin Art Prize in 2018. They have been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, including Künstlerische Forschung (Berlin Senate, 2020–2021), Stiftung Kunstfonds, the Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Media Art, and the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation and Bursary Awards.
O’Malley has held teaching and mentoring positions including Guest Professor on the MFA at ZHdK, Zurich (2020–2024); Professor of Gender & Space at the Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna; and Guest Mentor for the Live Art MA at AdBK Nürnberg (2021). They were also a fellow of BPA // Berlin Program for Artists (2019–2020).
Their work has been exhibited and presented internationally at institutions including the Goethe-Institut Dublin; The Granary Theatre / National Sculpture Factory, Ireland; the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin; Art Institute Basel, Switzerland; Biennale Zielona Góra, Poland; Goethe-Institut Montreal and New York; Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), Berlin; Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Sweden; Mumok Kino, Vienna; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; the Berlin Art Prize exhibition (2018); and the Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg.
Merle Radtke ist Kuratorin und Autorin. Schwerpunkte ihrer kuratorischen Arbeit sind die feministische Kunst, die Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion von Geschichte, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, (post-) digitale Kunstpraxis, Klangkunst und lateinamerikanische Kunst. Seit 2018 leitet sie die Kunsthalle Münster. In ihrer Position ist sie zum einen für das Programm der Kunsthalle verantwortlich und betreut zudem die Sammlung von Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im Besitz der Stadt Münster sowie das Residenzprogramm Residence NRW+. Zuvor hat sie u.a. als Kuratorin für die Hamburger Kunsthalle und das Kunstmuseum Stuttgart gearbeitet. Von 2015 bis 2017 war sie Mitglied des Graduiertenkollegs Ästhetiken des Virtuellen an der Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. 2018 folgte ein Stipendium des Goethe Instituts an der Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto. 2024 kuratierte sie das Art Weekend Belgrade. Regelmäßig publiziert sie Texte zu zeitgenössischer Kunst und Kultur.
Merle Radtke works as curator and writer. In her curatorial work she focuses on feminism, the construction and deconstruction of history, art in the public space war, (post-)digital art practice, sound art and Latin American art. Since July 2018, she is working as director of Kunsthalle Münster, devising and realizing the exhibition, furthermore she is for the city’s collection of art in the public space and the residency program Residence NRW+. Previously, she has worked as a curator for Hamburger Kunsthalle and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, amongst others. From 2015 to 2017, she was research fellow of the Aesthetics of the Virtual graduate program at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg. In 2018, she was a fellow at Villa Kamogawa/Goethe Institut Kyoto, Japan. And in 2024, she curated the Art Weekend Belgrade. On a regular basis, she publishes texts on contemporary art and culture.
Vera Shchelkina is a dance artist, choreographer (MA Choreography graduate from HZT Berlin), and somatic movement educator (Somatic Academy Berlin).
They work as facilitator and curator for professional and non-professional dance and performance programs, including Contemporary Dance for Deaf Community at GES-2 (Moscow), Summer School for Performance at HFBK (Hamburg), and Here + Now + Everyone at Kampnagel Sommerfestival (Hamburg).
Their choreographic and collaborative projects include CO-TOUCH, My Ex(body), The Imposture Lab, SMRTъ, Vibrant Matter, Witnessing it all happening for the last time, and Everyone here is a bit of a horse, as well as choreography for a musical film “Songs of hope and despair” by Chto Delat.
Vera’s artistic research investigates the body as a political and transpersonal agent, where touch, perception, and form reveal states of rebellion and intimacy. They research and teach perception as a form of action in different contexts.