Hannah Kruse, Project manager

Hannah Kruse is an art scholar and cultural manager. She studied art and art theory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and Karlsruhe and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), and later completed the postgraduate Whitney Museum of Arts Independent Study Program in Curatorial Studies in New York.

She has worked as an artist’s assistant and coordinated art events and exhibitions in New York, Berlin and London. In 2002/03 she was the managing director of London’s Chisenhale Gallery, which produces the work of ‘emerging artists’. Hannah Kruse’s work focuses on the qualification of women artists, arts education / gallery education, and project management. She has frequently been on juries for ‘Kunst am Bau’ (public art for architecture) proposals, project funding and grants. Hannah Kruse has taught at the UdK’s Institute for Art in Context, the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin (spatial strategies course), the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, and other arts institutions.

Hannah Kruse german Interview „Fünf Fragen an …“ (Julia Boek, 2013)

Veronika Bartelt, Course coordinator

Veronika Bartelt is a cultural scholar; in 2017 she completed the master’s programme Culture, Arts and Media at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg; 2019 – 2020 project manager at salondergegenwart, a non-profit art project with an annual group exhibition to promote visual artists with a focus on painting; 2018 project coordinator for a participatory neighbourhood project (“Open KööK”) in Hamburg.

In 2021 Veronika Bartelt joined the Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt and has been working as a course coordinator since October 2021. As part of the Goldrausch team she focuses on curriculum planning, supporting the artists* and the presentation media produced during the course.

Based on her experience in project work, she has been giving workshops for (prospective) artists and art scholars at the bbk Bildungswerk, at the Kunsthochschule Kassel and (together with Hannah Kruse) at the Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule since 2021.

2024-25 further training as a systemic coach in Berlin, aiming to support artists and cultural workers in their individual professional concerns.

Manon Frugier, Course support and public relations (Project management assistant)

After completing a Master’s degree in Political Science at Sciences Po in Paris in 2017, Manon Frugier worked as an art mediator and project manager for various art galleries, biennials and festivals, including the Palais de Tokyo, Manifesta 13, transmediale, Klosterruine Berlin and ngbk’s ‘Kunst im Untergrund’ project. Manon Frugier has been working at Goldrausch since March 2024, using their skills to assist with project management. Manon Frugier is interested in the history of drag kings, queer archives and analogue photography.

Ulrike Riebel, Finance coordinator

Ulrike Riebel arbeitet als freie Kuratorin und Projektraumbetreiberin. Studium BA Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften in Leipzig und Reykjavík, Island; berufsbegleitendes Studium MA /ecm – educating/curating/managing an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien; Hospitanz im Bereich Öffentlichkeitsarbeit in der Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK) in Leipzig; 2018 – 2020 wissenschaftliche Volontärin in der Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten als kuratorische Assistenz und Programmkoordinatorin sowie im Bärenzwinger Teil des künstlerischen Leitungsteams; 2021 – 2022 Produktionsleitung der Klosterruine Berlin und des Bärenzwingers. Seit April 2022 ist Ulrike Riebel als Finanzkoordinatorin beim Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt tätig.

She is a founding member of the art association Plusnull e.V. and the Institute for Everything Possible and since 2020 Artistic Director of the art festival ORTSTERMIN in Berlin-Moa

Klara Hülskamp, Finance and management assistant

Klara Hülskamp lives and works as a cultural worker and curator in Berlin and Hamburg. She graduated from the Curatorial Studies programme (M.A.) at the Städelschule and Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and studied Aesthetics and Art History / Media Studies (B.A.) at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig. She currently works as an assistant curator at the Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof and carries out independent curatorial projects. She is part of the curatorial team of the Miniaturbiennale II, which will take place at Frankfurt Central Station in 2024.

In the past, she has worked in the curatorial team of the Schinkel Pavilion, was assistant curator at the Kunstverein Braunschweig and production assistant for the 9th Berlin Biennale. In her curatorial practice she is interested in collective practices of working, forms of participation and aesthetics of liminality.

Elisabeth Wolff, intern

Elisabeth Wolff completed her Bachelor’s degree in Law and Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology at the University of Göttingen (DE) in summer 2024. To strengthen her practical knowledge in the field of management, exhibiting and curating, she is now studying for a Bachelor’s degree in Museology at HTW Berlin.

Alongside her studies in Göttingen, she got involved in a local cultural collective and helped organize music events as well as the artistic design of the visual communication. Here she experienced how relevant self-organized cultural work is for political networking among students. For example, the collective’s ticket revenue was used to raise funds for a queer-feminist bar and safer space in Göttingen. At the same time, the collective was confronted with the challenge of dwindling spaces for culture and art. Through these experiences, her interest in the field of art and cultural promotion grew.

In order to better understand the structures of public cultural funding, she completed an internship at the cultural funding consultancy Kreativ Kultur Berlin and supported the preparation of networking events and advisory workshops for Berlin artists. This gave her a deeper insight into the Berlin funding landscape and made her particularly enthusiastic about funding formats dedicated to marginalized groups. Influenced by the cultural anthropological approach of looking at individual stories within their social context, Elisabeth sees her work at Goldrausch as an important contribution to making underrepresented women* artists and their works visible. In the future, she would like to advocate for more accessible structures in the cultural and museum sector, which is why she is looking forward to broadening her perspective in direct exchange with the artists at Goldrausch.
In her free time, Elisabeth enjoys painting and crocheting – preferably for and with friends.

Bisherige Projektleiterinnen

Hannah Kruse (2004–ongoing)
Birgit Effinger (2002–06/2018)
Anna Brinkmann (2014–2016, finances)
Annette Maechtel (2002–2003)
Annette Thomas (1999–2001)
Hannah Kruse (1995–1999)
Dr. Anne Marie Freybourg (project founder) (1989–2001)
Ute Birk (Projektgründerin) (1989–1995)

Previous employees

Katharina Faller (2022-2024, Course support and Public relations), Lotta Bartoschewski (2022-2023, Finances assistant) Theresa Strebling (2018-2022, Finances), Sarah Magill (Finances and management assistant), Sarie Nijboer (2021, Course coordinator), Kira Dell (2017–2018, Finance; 2018–2021, Project coordinator), Jil Zepp (2019–2020, Graduate Trainee), Frederiek Weda (2018–2019, Graduate Trainee), Anna Brinkmann (2014–2016, Finances)

Previous project managers

Sophie Etinosa Agho, Helen Albrecht, Mara Baumbach, Sophie Becker, Luisa Bona, Johanna Böker, Clara Brosche, Anna Rea Bründl, Meryem Coskun, Benita Dederichs, Anja Degner, Kira Dell, Franziska Ehlicker, Anna Emminger, Cheyenne Enneper, Bergit Faßl, Elisabeth Faul, Stefano Ferlito, Miriam Georger, Carolin Greifenstein, Franziska Grubann, Elsa Guily, Devin Gökdemir, Letha Gumz, Pauline Hagen, Johanna Hartmann, Dora Jacques Piaszek, Lena Kahle, Carolin Kaser, Daria Korznikova, Malin Krahn, Nora Kronemeyer, Khatia Kurtanidze, Anna Latzko, Leo Lencsés, Sarah Marcinkowski, Sophie McCuen-Koytek, Annika Maus, Leah Marthe Mennrich, Susanne Mohr, Hélène Mohrbutter, Carla Mönning, Anne Nauditt, Ina Neddermeyer, Svitlana Nikolaienko, Alva Noelle, Marlene Risse, Vanessa Schmidt, Franziska Schönfeld, Nicola Schüschke, Lucía Sciandro, Lea Stahl, Olivia Steiert, Hanna Steinert, Theresa Strebling, Toni Suarez Bergmann, Tabea Thom, Alena Trapp, Janina Vujic, Litong Xiao, Fadila Yassouf, Emilie van Zandbergen, Anne Zdunek, Helena Zeh, Clara Zerrahn