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