Claudia Banz

Claudia Banz (Dr.) is an art and design historian. Since 2017 she has been curator for design at the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin and since 2023, an associate member of the cluster of excellence Matters of Activity at Humboldt-University Berlin. Previously, she headed the Art and Design Department at Museum für Kunst & Gewerbe Hamburg from 2011 to 2017. Banz has realized many international exhibitions, outreach formats, and fairs at the intersection of design, fashion, craft, and art, including Fast Fashion. The Dark Side of Fashion (2014-1018), Food Revolution 5.0. Design for Tomorrow's Society (2017-2019), Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design (2018-2019), the Design Lab series (2019-2023), Retrotopia. Design for Socialist Spaces (2022-2023) or the interdisciplinary platform More than human. Design after the Antropocene (since 2024). Banz is a member of numerous juries and publishes on social design and material culture.