Tieranatomisches Theater
Paz Ponce
- 2025
- Advisory Board
Paz Ponce (ES, 1985) is a Berlin-based curator and art historian whose practice explores curation as a form of care, environ-mentalism, and situated memory with a focus on community-building, participation, and cross-cultural exchange (EU & Latin America).
She is currently Curator for Public Programmes & Outreach at the Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T), part of the Center for Cultural Techniques at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In this role, she activates TA T as an open stage for artistic and scientific research, bringing an eco-feminist approach to curating that centers collective processes, multi-vocality, and public engagement.
Guided by the question “How can the curatorial revert back to the local scene?”, she approaches programming as a dramaturgical composition—attuned to how we spend time with research and what architectures of encounter and forms of hospitality it can open. At the core of her methodology is a commitment to listening to context: engaging with the specific environmental, social, and infrastructural conditions that shape knowledge processes. Through collaborative, process-based formats, she fosters interdisciplinary knowledge exchange across art, science, and social practice.
She has worked transnationally with institutions including nGbK, ZK/U – Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Uferstudios, Agora Collective, berlinerpool, Galerie Wedding, 48 Stunden Neukölln (Berlin); Laboratorio Artístico de San Agustín (LASA) & Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam / Bienal de La Habana (Havana, CU); Casa Tomada (São Paulo, BR); Onassis AiR (Athens, GR); Cinema Lumbardhi (Prizren, KV); Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay (Singapore, SG); Academy of the Arts (Szczecin, PL); Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Innovation (Quito, EC); Lokomotiva (Skopje, MK); and B_Tours Festival (Tel Aviv, IL).
As an organiser/producer, she initiated several advocacy/project platforms focused on diversity: insurgencias.net (activist positions from Latin America), neue häute e.V. (community practices & social choreographies) Organismendemokratie e.V. (rights for all living beings).
