The Board of the bbk berlin
Was born 1975 in Erlangen, Bavaria. She studied painting, free graphic design, and object art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg under Prof. Rolf-Gunter Dienst and at the Magyar Képzömüvészeti Föiskola, in Budapest under Prof. Dóra Maurer. She received a post-graduate grant from the DAAD (German Academic Exchange) for Tokyo, Japan in 2005/2006. She lives and works in Berlin. Besides her focus on conceptual painting, she also works in the fields of film, photography, and writing. Her theoretical interests and writing often include Japanese pop and underground culture.
Birgit Cauer sees her sculptural work as an approach to stone as a counterpart. She seeks to understand and visualize the fascinating and difficult-to-imagine process of the emergence of life in stone. The result is sculptures, drawings, experimental arrangements, and—in some cases—participatory projects in public spaces, in which the energetic potential inherent in the respective material and location is activated. Only in partnership with this material can these wondrously bizarre forms emerge.
As a member of the bbk board, I want to help ensure that art remains free and that opportunities for artists to produce and present their work are secured and expanded for future generations.
For me, the basis for this is collegial, democratic, and respectful cooperation within the board and among artists.
Julie Legouez, born in 1988 in Viersen, is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Berlin. She studied Fine Arts at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. | In her artistic work, she explores various facets of love and particularly engages with feminist themes. Her focus is on placing personal experiences in a broader societal context to highlight the connections between the personal and the political. Through her art, Legouez aims to bring social issues such as violence against FLINTA* and unhealthy relationship dynamics from the private into the public discourse.
*women, lesbians, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender persons
Justina Los, born in 1986, lives and works in Berlin. Los studied at the Academy of Communication Design in Cologne and media arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. She works in sculpture, video, and performance. Her works are homages to a globally non-functioning social and economic system in which the future belongs only to those who can afford it. Fascinated by hyper-capitalistic machinery of exploitation, she currently addresses mechanisms of dependency and the illusion of freedom in our society in her work. Throughout her practice, dystopia has become a motivating force, while humor and resilience remain her preferred survival methods.
Alex Lebus (born in 1980 in Magdeburg, GDR) lives and works in Berlin and Dresden. She studied interface/industrial design at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences from 2000 to 2004 and fine art at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 2006 to 2012, graduating as a master student in 2014. In addition, she completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter from 2021 to 2023 and has been an artistic assistant at the HfBK Dresden since 2025. Her work revolves around questions of identity and self-location in the field of tension between opposites such as inside and outside, appearance and reality. Drawing on Hannah Arendt's idea of “I say and locate this I in a we,” Lebus addresses the alienation and connection between people and the space they create for themselves—in constant juxtaposition.
"At bbk berlin, I want to work to ensure that we artists take each other seriously, strengthen our visibility, and show more clearly how important our work is for society—based on gratitude, mutual appreciation, and support."
Benjamin Zuber's artistic work is characterized by his quest to trace the unrepeatable quality of first attempts—which continually drives him to explore new materials and processing techniques. In a constant dialectic of construction and deconstruction, he searches for solutions to problems he has just devised, as well as for forms and formats that can represent this search. In doing so, he repeatedly opens up topics of high social relevance, only to then confront the limitations of a personal view of these complexes: grand gestures that implode. Zuber, born in 1982, studied at the art academies in Nuremberg and Vienna until 2012 and has lived in Berlin since 2014. In addition to his individual practice, he has gained some experience in university teaching, enjoys working in changing collective contexts, and has been working in a duo with Thomas Weinberger since 2018.
Dejan Marković is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. His installations, objects and video works investigate the connections between ideological and technological transformations, forms of exploitation and oppression, and the production of knowledge. After completing his studies at the UdK in Berlin and Belgrade, he worked at the Institute for Contemporary Art at the Graz University of Technology as a university assistant and project coordinator, among other things. His research-based and collaborative practice, as well as site-specific works and temporary interventions, have been shown at Kunsthaus Graz, MoCA Belgrade, nGbK Berlin, Neue Galerie Graz, MoCA Novi Sad and Belgrade Biennale, among others.
The Board of the bbk berlin is elected every two years. It consists of two spokespersons and five other members and represents the bbk berlin e.V. as a shareholder in its non-profit subsidiaries, the kulturwerk with its workshops and offices and the bildungswerk.
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Nina Korolewski (office manager)
Yoonhee Kim
Doris Redmann
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Annika Geis (Public Relations)
Tel: 030 - 230 899 - 11
Email: presse@verband-bbk.berlin