Kat Elio Brenner (no pronouns) works at the intersection of queer feminism, institutional critique, radical pedagogy, and activism, developing formats such as collaborative learning environments, publications and public events. Kat is currently working as a Research Associate in the FemPower project at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. Kat studied Visual Communication at the University of the Arts Berlin, the Estonian Academy of the Arts, and the Kassel University of Art, and co-initiated the student-organized seminars Klasse Klima and Eine Krise bekommen.
✉ kat.brenner(at)posteo.de
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↯ (Collective) Teaching
AG Entgegentreten, Working group in collaboration with Deren Gündoğdu and Isabel Maria Müller, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Summer Semester 2026 (Poster: Ruben Lyon)
🔗 Link to an interview with the AG Entgegentreten at Campus & Karriere, Deutschlandfunk.
🔗 Link to an article in Du bist Halle mentioning AG Entgegentreten
(Ver-)Lernort Schule. Machtkritik und Care im Kunstunterricht, Seminar in collaboration with Sarah Kaiser, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Summer Semester 2026
Eine messy Geschichte von Craftivism als queerfeministische Praxis., Lecture and Workshop at the Seminar Zwischen Atelier und Werkbank. Zeitgenössische Kunst und Handwerk im kunstpädagogischen Diskurs, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, January 2026
AG Rechtspopulismus entgegentreten, Working Group in collaboration with Diana Hurtado and others, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Winter Semester 2025/26
🔗 Link to the working group
🔗 Link to an article about the working group at Mitteldeutsche Zeitung
Wie widersetzen? – Widerstand und Protest in universitären Machtstrukturen, Seminar (Kompaktwoche) in collaboration with Anouk Raasch, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, November 2025 (Foto: Markus Henschler)
Zeitschrift für institutionelles Verdauen und studentische Kritik, Seminar in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, June 2025.
Witchy Wishes, Cross-institutional workshop series in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Braunschweig University of Art, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2024 – January 2025
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Braunschweig University of Art
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Kunsthochschule Kassel
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement at Berlin University of the Arts
Collaborative Curricula, workshop in collaboration with Laris Bäucker, UdK 2030 Zukunftstag, Berlin University of the Arts, November 2024
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
🔗 Link to the documentation of the UdK2030 Zukunftstag
A New School, A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments, Summer School in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli, Charlotte Perka and Lioba Wachtel, M.1 Hohenlockstedt / Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Berlin University of the Arts, 2023
🔗 Link to the project website
🔗 Link to an article about the summer school published at Lerchenfeld Magazine (HfbK Hamburg)
Selbsthilfegruppe Arbeit, Arbeit, Arbeit, self-organized support group in collaboration with friends, 2023–2025
Queer Teachings, Workshop in collaboration with Michael Fowler, Estonian Academy of the Arts, 2023
Feministischer Songwriting Workshop: Du musst gar nix!, Workshop, part of the Exhibition Rewind & Fast Forward of Prof. Anna Anders, Berlin University of the Arts, SOMA Art Berlin, 2022
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
Picture this: Kritische Kunsthochschule, Workshop in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel, 2022
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
Eine Krise bekommen: Kunsthochschulen und Ausschlussmechanismen, Blockseminar in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Floating Berlin, 2022
🔗 Link the the seminar announcement
🔗 Link to an article we wrote about the seminar at the blog of Art. School.Differences (ZhdK)
Feministische Universität der Künste Berlin, Workshop, UdK 2030 Zukunftstag, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the workshop announcement
🔗 Link to an article about the workshop at the blog of Hochschulforum Digitalisierung
Feminist Futures (BA project), Workshops, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the announcement website
🔗 Link to the documentation website
Eine Krise bekommen: Design & Psychische Gesundheit, Blockseminar in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Floating Berlin, 2021
🔗 Link to the seminar announcement
Climate Supporter‘s Support Group, Blockseminar ("Kollisionswoche") in collaboration with Ju Rosenstock, Sophia New and Daniel Belasco Rogers, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the seminar announcement
Manifestos on Ethics in Advertising, Workshop in collaboration with Bernd Grether, Berlin University of the Arts, Willem de Kooning Acadamie Rotterdam, 2020
🔗 Link to the workshop documentation
Klasse Klima, Weekly Seminar in collaboration with the Klasse Klima and Constanze Hein, Bernd Grether and Wenzel Mehnert, Studium Generale, Berlin University of the Arts, Winter Semester 2019/20 and Winter Semester 2020/21
🔗 Link to the website of Klasse Klima
↯ Articles, Publications and Interviews
“An Opportunity to Challenge the Status Quo” – Camille Circlude on institutional transformation with the Teaching to Transgress* Research Group., Interview with Camille Circlude, Futuress, 2025.
🔗 Link to the article
Nähe und Distanz, Interview with Lisa Storck, in: Hybris – Die, nicht du!, Klasse Kampagnen, Berlin University of the Arts, 2025
🔗 Link to the magazine
Witchy Wishes – Träume organisieren, Institutionen verhexen, Conversation with Lioba Wachtel, in: Effinger, Birgit; Kitzerow, Elisabeth: FORM IT, Lehre gemeinsam gestalten – Ein Experimentelles Format der Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Weissensee Academy of Art Berlin, 2025 (Open Access coming soon.)
witchy wishes, Anthology with short stories, poems and witchcraft sayings by the participants of the workshop series witchy wishes in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, 2025. Pdf and analog copies on request. (Open Access coming soon.)
Praktiken widerspenstiger Lernräume – Netzwerk Diskriminierungskritik an Kunsthochschulen, Interview in collaboration with Francesca Romana Audretsch, Sevda Güler and Hagen Verleger, in: Mayer, Ulli; Ellmeier, Andrea; Müller, Gerda (Hrsg.). Ver_Üben. Diversität als diskriminierungskritische Praxis in Kunst, Kultur und universitärer Bildung., transcript, 2025
🔗 Link to the publication
Praktiken widerspenstiger Lernräume (Master project), Publication, Kunsthochschule Kassel, 2024
🔗 Link to project website
Wir bekommen eine Krise, Interview in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli and Bianca Seidel, Design Melodrama, 2023
🔗 Link to the interview
Was wäre, wenn ... die Kunsthochschule feministisch wäre?, Article, Hochschulforum Digitalisierung Blog, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
Was ist Design?, Collective article in collaboration with Rebecca Stephany and the graphic design class of Kunsthochschule Kassel, form 299 – Geld, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
„Wir müssen ihnen leider mitteilen, …“, Article in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Art.School.Differences, 2023
🔗 Link to the article
47 HURRA HURRA x Katharina Brenner und Annika Somanika, Podcast in collaboration with Leoni Fischer and Annika Sominka, Hurra Hurra - ein Designpodcast der BURG, 2023
🔗 Link to the podcast
Conversations continued ... with Katharina Brenner, Luisa Herbst, Destina Atasayar and Lucie Jo Knilli, Interview in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lisa Baumgarten, Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli and Judith Leijdekkers, Teaching Design, 2021
🔗 Link to the interview
Eine Krise bekommen, Publication in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the publication
Kunsthochschulen, entdiskriminiert euch!, Article in: Eine Krise bekommen, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the article
Glowing Red Letters — How a group of German art students is tackling structural discrimination with an anonymous form., Article, Futuress, 2021
🔗 Link to the article
↯ Readings, Lectures and Events
Solidarisch, Gemeinschaftlich, Vernetzt und Widerständig in die Wahlnacht, Event from the AG Entgegentreten in collaboration with Deren Gündoğdu, Isabel Maria Müller and Lilli Marleen Grzimek, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, September 6, 2026
🔗 Link to the event
Sichtbar, sinnlich, selbstbestimmt – Feministische Widerstands-, Körper- und Erinnerungs-Praxen, Lecture series from FemPower and Gleichstellung in collaboration with Anna Unterstab, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, Summer Semester 2026
🔗 Link to the lecture performance „Without community, there is no liberation" – Über lebende Archive und solidarisches Erinnern from Jaqueline Saki Aslan
🔗 Link to the workshop Museum der Dinge from Jaqueline Saki Aslan
🔗 Link to the workshop Hach ja! – Wohlgefühl als widerständige Praxis from Kumi More and Bendix Mignon
🔗 Link to the online-reading Ein Satz heiße Ohren from Kumi More and Bendix Mignon
Queer Bar #1, in collaboration with Anna Unterstab, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, May 2026 (Poster: Rosalie Borkowski)
🔗 Link to the event
Elterngerechte BURG?!, action stand for the BURG Gleichstellung in collaboration with Annika Tress, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, May 2026
Panel discussion "Kunst und Kultur zwischen Freiheit und Einfluss" at Gewerkschaftsratschlag, in collaboration with Lisa Mangold (ver.di), Mareike Mikat (neues theater/Thalia Theater) and David Schliesing (MdB, Linke), Literaturhaus Halle, April 2026
🔗 Link to the event
Doppelvortrag von Christina Brinkmann und Marie Lu Teigler bei der AG Rechtspopulismus entgegentreten, Organisation and Moderationin in collaboration with Carla Herrig, Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, 2026 (Poster: Ruben Lyon)
🔗 Link to the event
Studentische Proteste an Kunsthochschulen in Deutschland 2019-2025 (eine kleine Auswahl), Lecture at the seminar „Wie widersetzen? – Widerstand und Protest in universitären Machtstrukturen“ at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle, 2025
🔗 Link to the seminar
Lesung und Release witchy wishes, Reading in collaboration with Lioba Wachtel, Hannah Englisch and Luise John, 2025
🔗 Link to the event
Praktiken widerspenstiger Lernräume, Online-Lecture at Netzwerk Diskriminierungskritik an Kunsthochschulen, 2024
A News School, A Summer School, Lecture at the KKWV Klausurtagung, Berlin University of the Arts, 2023
Eine Krise bekommen, Lecture in collaboration with Lu Herbst at the seminar Designtheorie, Berlin University of Applied Sciences, 2021
Eine Krise bekommen, Lecture and Workshop at the seminar A Soft Academic Revolution, Potsdam university of applied sciences, 2021
🔗 Link to the seminar
Lesung und Releaseparty von Eine Krise bekommen, Reading in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, Berlin University of the Arts, 2021
🔗 Link to the event
Lesung Eine Krise bekommen, Reading in collaboration with Destina Atasayar, Lu Herbst and Lucie Jo Knilli, 4. Aktionstag #wessenfreiheit, HGB Leipzig, 2021
🔗 Link to the event
Klasse Klima, Lecture in collaboration with Nicolai Herzog at the seminar „Critical Zones“ at Berlin University of the Arts, 2020
How Do I Politicize My College?, Panel discussion with the Klasse Klima (UdK Berlin) und Aktuelle Stunde (BURG), HURRA HURRA – Internationales Festival zur Designausbildung im 21ten Jahrhundert, University of Art and Design Halle, 2019
🔗 Link to the event