Mentoring for Artists
Bringing a child to a residency? Mentioning care gaps in your CV? Finding community and support? The Lab supports artists with caregiving responsibilities in addressing these and other pressing questions while helping them continue to develop their artistic practice on their own terms.
Services
- One-on-one mentoring sessions for artists with caregiving responsibilities
- Guidance on care-aware CVs, portfolios, and project development
- Support with funding applications under care conditions
- Empowerment workshops and peer coaching
Consulting for Institutions
The Lab offers consulting for cultural institutions, funding bodies, networks, and educational providers looking to structurally integrate caregiving realities. Together, we develop strategies to break down barriers and build support structures – so that people with care responsibilities can naturally be part of their organization.
Services
- Keynote talks on care infrastructures in the cultural sector
- Sensitivity trainings on gender equity and work-family balance
- Consulting on care-aware practices and best-practice examples
- Development of inclusive funding and exhibition practices
- Support with implementing work-family balance strategies
- Care-focused team development and process facilitation
Our Care Experts & Transformation Facilitators
We are a network of artists, curators, activists, and cultural workers united by the vision of a caring and just cultural landscape. Everyone in our team is involved with matters of caregiving and cultural production in their own way - and brings the passion and the skills to transform the cultural landscape.
Depending on the nature of the commission, we put together the ideal team for the project.
is a researcher, speaker, curator and author. She supports cultural practitioners and institutions on their way to a more equitable, care-sensitive practice - with a focus on mentoring, equality and structural change. With the CARING CULTURE LAB and initiatives such as Mothers*, Warriors, and Poets, she creates spaces for collective learning and transformation. Most recently, her book Caring Infrastructures: Transforming the Arts Through Feminist Curating (transcript, 2024) was published. More information about Dr. Sascia Bailer
Anna became a mother in the third semester of her art studies. In that sense, she has never known life as an artist without a child. Her credo: Take your child with you on your semester abroad. Take your child with you on residencies. Don’t hide it. Don’t hide your artistic profession. As a co-founder of Mothers*, Warriors, and Poets she is able to point other artists toward hidden opportunities — and show them places where they can find support, encouragement, and funding.
More about Anna Gohmert.
As a mother and artist, Marcia knows the structural barriers in the Art Sector first hand - and is committed to dismantling them. With Mehr Mütter für die Kunst and her consultancy for the city of Hamburg, she has initiated concrete change, including the first family-friendly urban residency in Germany. More information about Marcia Breuer
Marie knows how much creative power there is in collective care spaces. As an artist and co-founder of Mothers, Warriors and Poets, she brings new narratives of motherhood, art and resistance into the interiors of art and public spaces.
More information about Marie Lienhard
As a theatre maker and co-founder of Bühnenmütter* e.V., Teresa brings care issues directly onto the stage - and into the strategy discussions of institutions. She is a precise questioner, a strong moderator and a reliable voice for structural change. More information about Teresa Monfared
With K&K - Bündnis Kunst und Kind München, Gabi and Anna have created spaces in which art and parenthood are not mutually exclusive, but mutually nourishing. They believe in collective power and that public visibility is the first step towards change. More information about Gabi Blum and Anna Schölss
The visual artists Ines and Alice have created fair share! Visibility for Women Artists*, one of the most important initiatives for gender equality in the Art Sector. They are strategic, combative and always show solidarity. They know: It takes more than applause for real change! That's why they keep knocking on the doors of members of cultural committees and demanding, for example, re-entry grants for female* artists with caring responsibilities. The Berlin women like to sit on podiums, stand at the lectern or provide information about (still invisible) female* artists in front of originals in museums. More information about Ines Doleschal and Alice Münch
Ellen builds bridges between art education and care - with formats that take parents, children and art equally seriously. With kind+kunst Berlin, she creates access and participation beyond the traditional educational pathways. More information about Ellen Louise Weise