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Statement

Pauline Kling is a graduate of the Master’s program “Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics” at the University of Potsdam. Her work focuses on power-critical analysis related to classism and gender, as well as the political potential of art.

She has gained curatorial experience through intern and assistant positions at institutions such as the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Goethe Institute London, and through smaller projects.

In her Master’s thesis, she explored the themes key to her current project at GlogauAIR, focusing on the analysis of relationships in social spaces and the question of collective freedom.

Profile

GlogauAIR Project

Pauline will participate in the curatorial residency at GlogauAIR, realizing the exhibition When the body is queer, I feel free., developed as part of her Master’s thesis. The project explores the title giving quote from an acquaintance shared while dancing together at a Berlin club, raising questions about the relationship between the body, freedom, and queerness. Through a poststructuralist, queer, and relational lens, she investigates the emancipatory potential of queering heteronormative modes of relations, aiming to create a space where individual subversion and collective solidarity are intended to be experienced as practices through which people can feel freedom, making care the guiding principle of public interaction.

CV Summary

Education
2021 – 2024	MA Applied Cultural Studies and Cultural Semiotics, Universität Potsdam
2016 – 2020	BA Media, Communication and Theatre Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Work Experience
11/2024 – current	Assistant Event Production, DANCÆ Berlin
05/2023 – 03/2024	Student Assistant Collaborative Research Centre Intervening Arts, Freie Universität Berlin
09/2022 – 06/2023	Discussion Series “We want to talk!”, Staatsballett Berlin
06/2022 – 09/2022	Internship Visual Arts and Film, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin
04/2021 – 06/2021	Curatorial Assistant Britta Adler, Berlin
09/2020 – 12/2020	Internship Cultural Department, Goethe Institute London
09/2019 – 03/2024	Student Assistant Institute Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
03/2018 – 09/2018	Assistant POOL 18 Tanz Film Festival, Dock11 Berlin
Publication
12/2024	Kling, P. (2024). Das politische Potenzial der heterotopischen Kunsterfahrung. In E. Kimminich & M. Schröer (Eds.), Protest. Allgegenwart und Wandelbarkeit – Symbolik und Wirkmacht einer soziosemiotischen Praktik (pp. 53-72). Ergon, Baden-Baden. The article examines the effects of art from a semiotic and poststructuralist perspective. It investigates to what extent the art experience can intervene in the subjectivation process of the recipients.