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Author Kasia Wojcik and photographer Michél Kekulé have formed the core of the curatorial Re:Borders collective. Their work focuses on human rights, migration and flight.
Michél
Kekulé
Michél Kekulé was born in Fulda in 1991, spent some time growing up in Thuringia, and now lives in Berlin. Kekulé's focus is on artistic documentary photography and the exploration of socio-political themes. His work is characterized by an intensive engagement with societal issues, offering insights into various ways of life. In addition to participating in artist residencies and winning photography awards, he has exhibited his work in group and solo exhibitions and published it in the international press.
Since 2021, he has been studying, among others, with Lia Darjes and Tobias Kruse at the Ostkreuz School of Photography. He is in the graduating class of Ina Schönenburg.Michél Kekulé, together with theater artist Kasia Wojcik, founded the Re:Borders Collective. The collective, supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Germany & VG Bild-Kunst, blurred the boundaries between visual art, political activism, and transmedia happenings in its debut exhibition of the same name. In November 2023, Kekulé, together with Björn Kuhligk, initiated Writers and Photographers Against Antisemitism at the Volksbühne Berlin.
Kajetan
Skurski
Kajetan Skurski grew up in Gdańsk and Fulda, where he discovered theater as a student. After his high school graduation, he worked at the Maxim Gorki Theater and the Berliner Schaubühne. In 2014, he realized his participatory debut project BAU STÜCK on a vacant lot in Wedding. During his studies in Applied Theater Science under Prof. Heiner Goebbels in Gießen, his performances and walkable spatial installations were invited to the International Schiller Days, the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris, the Frankfurt Art Association, the Fast Forward Festival in Dresden, the Hessian Theater Days, documenta 15, and were also presented as a solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Gießen.
In his hybrid formats, vacant spaces and public areas are transformed into immersive worlds. Here, existential, political, and personal themes are developed and negotiated. Since 2024, Kajetan has been part of the Re:Borders Collective. He is currently directing the novel Nullerjahre for the Staatsschauspiel Dresden and is working on writing new plays.
Kasia
Wojcik
Kasia Wojcik, born in 1990, is a curator, dramaturge, and author. For several years, her focus has been on aesthetic and activist mediation on the topics of flight and migration. As part of IIPM/Milo Rau, she developed the award-winning discourse format School of Resistance (2020-2022) as lead curator and was part of the teams for the projects General Assembly and The New Gospel.
She supported the artist collective Staub zu Glitzer and was involved in the Artist Lab Neues Theater (AT), funded by the Performing Arts Fund, as well as serving as project manager for the Artist Lab Organizing Cultural Commons. She is realizing the transdisciplinary film, performance, and exhibition series Constitución Nómada in Colchane/Chile, Athens, and Berlin, as well as multidisciplinary exhibition formats as part of the Re:Borders Collective, including RE:BORDERS - Eine Anklage at the Kunstquartier Bethanien. Her poetry has been published in Literarische Diverse, and her journal articles in Performance Research and Cuadernos de Teoria Social.
