Hi – I'm Patrik Gräb and I am engaged in writing, artistic research, cultural organizing and curation.
I am program director of Kemmler Foundation, Berlin, which has recently initiated the European residency network COORDINATES.
I run Literaturhaus Neukölln together with Nele Mailin Obermüller. With Theresia Enzensberger, I publish the weekly newsletter Reading List Berlin.
[mail] patrik.graeb@icloud.com
[ig] @patrik.graeb
projects / works / talks
[talk] with Elsa-Sophie Jach and Theresia Enzensberger as a follow up to Theresia's poetic lecture „A Secret Third Thing“, LMU München, July 2026
[jury] at Kemmler Foundation Art Prize at LISTE Basel, June 2026
[organizing] Book launch Nice Rooms with Beautiful Views with Federico Vespignani, Ralph Tharayil and Ido Nahari for Literaturhaus Neukölln at Salon am Motitzplatz, June 2026
[residency] at Maison Marcelle, May 2026
where I will be working on a project tentatively titled xenoparity, inspired by this recent article in Nature.
[organizing] for Literaturhaus Neukölln: Ästhetik des Widerstands, audio performance by Fabian Saul and Tanasgol Sabbagh and panel talk with Moshtari Hilal, Theresia Enzensberger at MARKK Hamburg and with Alice Hasters, Sandra Hetzel and Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus at SPORE Initiative, April 2026
[workshop] Was passiert hier? Experimentelle Praktiken des Schreibens und Lesens, at kindly invited, Februrary 2026
[performance] Scripted Encounters at BuchBasel, November 2025 – video and images
I've been commissioned to write Scripted Encounters, a participatory performance taking place at Cafe OPEM, an installation by Benedikt Bock and Arnaud Wohlhauser during BuchBasel (image Sophie Tichonenko).
[reading] at BuchBasel, November 2025 – images
(image credit Sophie Tichonenko)
[workshop] – on reading circles at LfB, October 2025 – video
Invited by Moritz Gansen, Nele Mailin Obermüller and I talked about curating literary experiences at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus.
[talk] presentation of Scripted Encounters, Kaserne Basel, September 2025
As part of Be My Guest # 2, September 23, 2025
[interview] with Clemente Ciarrocca on Obelus, Future Archives, September 2025
[newsletter] Fall 2025 – link
“I dreamed my mother was crocheting the sun” curated by Leonie Herweg / "Voyage along the margins" curated by plaisir d'offrir at floating university / workshop on reading circles at Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus.
[residency] at Atelier Mondial, Basel, July - September 2025.
[curation] ESSEN by Chouf, literature and sound performance, Kunsthalle Neukölln, August 2025.
[installation] Histoire de la vie privée, June 2025 – images
I created a narrative audio installation in a private apartment in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Participation was possible upon prior reservation for one person at a time. In artistic collaboration with Eliana Kirkcaldy.
[talk] Bridging Narratives: Theresia Enzensberger und Patrik Gräb, LfB, April 2025 – video
[curation] Dem Mond geht es gut by Paulina Czienskowski, book launch moderated by Lin Hierse with Literaturhaus Neukölln, April 2025 – press
[curation] Unsettling – Heimat, Unheimlichkeit und Rückkehr, audio performance by Ralph Tharayil and Ido Nahari at MARKK Hamburg, February 2025
[interview] with Nadja Abt, Future Archives, January 2025
[reading] together with Nadja Abt, Benedikt Bock and Philipp Simon, at Schmetterling, November 2024
[reading] from Local Forces for Henri Haake Bad Gateway at Obelus, November 2024
[teaching] Diffused Attention, reading and workshop with wang consulting, at Savvala Residency, Latvia, July 2024
[writing] Mysteries of the Everyday, exhibition text OMG, Henri Haake, Office Impart, December 2023
[curating/organizing] The Utopian Library, group exhibition and event at Kemmler Foundation, August 2023
[organizing] Texte zum Nachdenken at Kemmler Foundation, June 2023 – video
Curated by Sarah Lehnerer and Benedikt Bock, with Seda Mimaroglu, Luzie Meyer and Eleni Polou.