Patricia Couvet
(b. 1994, Paris, FR) is a curator based in Berlin. Currently, she co-curates two initiatives by the collective Slavs and Tatars in Berlin (DE): the residency-mentorship for emerging art professionals from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia and Pickle Bar, a project space with a slavic take on the aperitivo bar that focus on performative and discursive formats.

In 2019, she attended the post-graduate program in Curatorial Studies at KASK, Ghent (BE).

She co-founded with Samuel Arnaud DVA Press, a publishing house and curatorial project based between Strasbourg and Berlin. She is also part of the research collective Beyond the post-soviet.


Curated projects
Slurs, Paris-Berlin, 23
Parcours/Бағдап, Monnaie de Paris, Asia NOW, 23
Costumes and Collapse, Pickle Bar, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 23
L’Horlogerie à Répétition, The Left Place, Reims, 23
Clouds and Power, Mill6Chat, Hong-Kong, co-curated Slavs and Tatars, Mi You, 23
Proxemities, La Box, Bourges, co-curated Alicja Melzacka, 23
Sauer Power Klubnacht, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 22
Why do you stand at the door?, Jewish Museum Belgium, 22
Azbuka Strikes Back, Pickle Bar, Berlin, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 22
When Red and White ain’t so Black and White, Sentiment, Zürich, 22
Knot Know, Pickle Bar Berlin, co-curated Anastasia Marukhina, 22
Pickle Bar pop-ups (Radicants, Paris 23; Wiener Festwochen Vienna, 22; HacerNoche, Oaxaca, 22; Print Triennale Tallinn, 22)
Session of Tenderness, online, co-curated Q Rators, 22 
L’Ombre des choses, Tropicana, Brussels, 18
Le Kabinet, Brussels, 17-18
Selection
Texts 
Kubra Khademi, Ta’me Sib, Eric Mouchet Gallery, 23 
à qui/quoi la chaleur resiste t-elle? in “l’art-même”, n°89, 23
The inherited Division, “in Kajet online”, 21
Gros Gris, Duel with Samuel Arnaud, le duel, n°4, 18
Selection
Talks
Artist talk: Tekla Aslanishvili, WIELS, Bruxelles, 23
Lecture: “How to make an international exchange plateform”, Changwon Biennale, Changwon, 22



(Centre) Aziza Shadenova, Textures on Grieving, 2019, silk, wool, cotton, wooden pole, galvanized buckets, mud, various sizes. (Sides) Kubra Khademi, The birth giving #09 and The birth giving #01 2021, screen print on fabrics, 200x150 cm. Installation view at ‘Parcours/Бағдап’ curated by Slavs and Tatars, Asia NOW, Monnaie de Paris, 2023. Photo: Lionel Belluteau

(wall) Uladzimir Hramovich, (left) Olga Micinska, (right) Zinaïda Tchelidze, L’Horlogerie à Répétition, The Left Place, 2023, Photo: Thomas Schmahl  

(left) Harun Farocki, (center), Anna Zvyagintseva, (right) Alaa Mansour, Proxemities, La Box, Bourges, 2023

Nikolay Karabinovych, Why do you stand at the door? Jewish Museum of Belgium, 2022, photo: Isabelle Arthuis

‘Sauer Power Klubnacht’ curated by Slavs and Tatars, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, 2022, courtesy Humboldt Forum Stiftung. Photo: David von Becker

Uladzimir Hramovich, Olia Sosnovskaya, Sergey Shabohin, Andrey Anro, Vasilisa Palianina, When Red and White ain’t so Black and White, Sentiment, Zürich, photo: Julien Gremaud



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