The current curatorial fellow is Nicholé Velázquez. He was born in New York in 1986. There he trained at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Rika Burnham in 2000. In 2003 he studied at Bard College in Simon’s Rock, majoring in Anthropology, and in 2005 at Hunter College of the City University of New York, International Political Economy. In the same year, he was the youngest recipient of the Joyceln Benzakin Fellowship Award.

In 2011, he relocated to Berlin. In 2018, he was awarded the Prix académique Industries & Cultures / Art faber. In 2023, he curated the exhibition “One For Tor – Never Leave” in Berlin together with Trevor Lloyd Morgan.

Nicholé Velázquez looks after the guests of the Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstlerhaus, helps to design the programme and is the contact person for the public. New mediation formats are part of his remit, as is an ear for suggestions that come to him from outside.

He can be reached directly at the events of the Künstlerhaus or
– by email: curator@otte1.org
– by phone: 0176 / 74540173