Photo: Nora Ströbel

Melanie Roumiguière has a background in cultural studies and heads the Visual Arts Department of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. She realized exhibitions at the daadgalerie with Renée Green, Paola Yacoub, Zinny/Maidagan, Iman Issa and Minerva Cuevas, among others. She was curator and exhibition director at Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin, where she was part of the curatorial team of the project Hello World. Revision of a Collection and curated exhibitions with Mariana Castillo Deball, Michael Beutler and Gülsün Karamustafa, among others. She is the editor of the first monographs of the work of Mariana Castillo Deball Parergon (2014), Gülsün Karamustafa Chronographia (2016) and Minerva Cuevas (2023). Before joining Hamburger Bahnhof, she was a curatorial assistant for documenta 13 in Kassel and at MACBA in Barcelona. Together with Nora Lukacs, she is currently working on a comprehensive research and exhibition project on the artistic scenes and the role of internationalism in Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall.