raphael daibert
hearing from, gathering with, writing towards, learning otherwise
curatorial
artist contributions by Saverio Cantoni, Harun Morrison, Suelen Calonga, Pitchaya Ngamchareon and Lauryn Youden;
photos by Lucía Alfaro
Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
a project by Cruising Curators and The ReRouting Project
"When does walking become a refusal, a reclaiming, a reimagining? What stories does the city whisper when you move through it at different paces? What forms of knowledge emerge when we walk together, rather than alone?
Dissident Paths is a curatorial project unfolding over a year, by means of collective movement along traced, imagined, and yet-to-be-discovered paths across Berlin. Walking can be both a necessity and a gesture of dissidence, a refusal to accept the given infrastructures of a world increasingly defined by polarization and devastation. Walking through the city can change perceptions and awareness, at once exposing barriers and impossibilities, whilst also opening up new routes. Movement, in both its bodily and political forms, holds the potential to reshape our sense of belonging and collective agency."
See more at nGbK website.
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3-day public program coming up at nGbK space (Alexanderplatz) on February 26th-28th, 2026.
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3-day public program coming up at nGbK space (Alexanderplatz) on February 26th-28th, 2026.
artistic research
Cotorradio is an artistic research project that tackle questions based on ecology, migration, more-than-human histories and the urban endeavor. In April 2021, it was hosted by Idensitat in Barcelona with the intention to seek for sounds of belonging – having the sound of tropical parakeets found in European cities as its centrality. A sound piece and a sound-walk came together after almost a month in the city.
The sound piece with the ensemble of sounds and voices recorded during the residency process brought together not only the sounds of the birds, but also of the queer and migrant community that hosted the artist. The sound-walk happened throughout the Besòs river length, departing from a nest of cotorras (parakeets in Spanish) on a palmtree – depicted in one of the photos above – leading to the river's estuary where a known cruising area is located.
In September 2021, in the context of the exhibition Què amaga aquest silenci?, where the sound piece was installed, a sound-walk bursting the recorded voices happened throughout the streets of Sant Andreu, the district of Barcelona where the project was hosted.
The sound piece with the ensemble of sounds and voices recorded during the residency process brought together not only the sounds of the birds, but also of the queer and migrant community that hosted the artist. The sound-walk happened throughout the Besòs river length, departing from a nest of cotorras (parakeets in Spanish) on a palmtree – depicted in one of the photos above – leading to the river's estuary where a known cruising area is located.
In September 2021, in the context of the exhibition Què amaga aquest silenci?, where the sound piece was installed, a sound-walk bursting the recorded voices happened throughout the streets of Sant Andreu, the district of Barcelona where the project was hosted.
︎To listen to cotorradio, please access:
https://soundcloud.com/rdaibert/cotorradio
Produced and edited by Lucas Rosa
Voices from Nêga Lucas, Manauara Clandestina, Paula Daibert & many others.
In loving memory of Nêga Lucas.
Photos by Albert Gironès, Raphael Daibert.
https://soundcloud.com/rdaibert/cotorradio
Produced and edited by Lucas Rosa
Voices from Nêga Lucas, Manauara Clandestina, Paula Daibert & many others.
In loving memory of Nêga Lucas.
Photos by Albert Gironès, Raphael Daibert.
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about
raphael daibert (b.1988, Brazil) is an artist, curator, researcher and educator.
︎ currently:
co-curating Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method (a joint effort between his collective Cruising Curators, and ReRouting project) at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) for 2025-2026 in Berlin; lecturing at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) in the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics; writing his PhD as part of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg – where he also worked as a lecturer and research assistant (WiMi) in 2022-2025.
daibert holds a Master's degree in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), where he nowadays collaborates as a tutor and member of the Admission's Committee of the program, and is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective Cruising Curators.
raphael’s research interests include art praxis & education, performance studies, decolonial theories and pluriepistemic knowledge productions.
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raphael daibert (b.1988, Brazil) is an artist, curator, researcher and educator.
︎ currently:
co-curating Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method (a joint effort between his collective Cruising Curators, and ReRouting project) at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) for 2025-2026 in Berlin; lecturing at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) in the Institute for Art History, Art Theory and Aesthetics; writing his PhD as part of the DFG Research Training Group Cultures of Critique at Leuphana University Lüneburg – where he also worked as a lecturer and research assistant (WiMi) in 2022-2025.
daibert holds a Master's degree in Art Praxis from the Dutch Art Institute (DAI), where he nowadays collaborates as a tutor and member of the Admission's Committee of the program, and is one of the founding members of the curatorial collective Cruising Curators.
raphael’s research interests include art praxis & education, performance studies, decolonial theories and pluriepistemic knowledge productions.
[selected] CV
teaching
2025
> Curatorial Practice as Contact
University of the Arts Berlin
seminar to Bachelor and Master's students during the 2025-2026 winter semester
2024
> Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowledge
Leuphana University Lüneburg
seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
> Neocolonialism and Film
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
> Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024 summer semester (02.04.24 → 03.07.24)
2023
> “The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration Leuphana University Lüneburgseminar to Bachelor students during the 2023/2024 winter semester (17.10.23 → 01.02.24)
> Decolonial Thought and Practice Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
> Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
curatorial projects
2025 [ongoing] Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
Work group (Cruising Curators + The ReRouting Project) responsible for artists contributions in the form of walks across Berlin in 2025/2026.
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-walking-together-as-a-method>
2024 Nightmares, Colonial, Neocolonial ︎Kunstraum Leuphana Universität/Scala Kino - Lüneburg/DE
Film series co-curated with Philip Rizk.
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<https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/641929/nightmares-colonial-neocolonial/>
2024 Inside Wounds
︎ Kunstraum Leuphana Universität - Lüneburg/DE
Performance series co-curated with Christopher Weickenmeier.
︎ <https://kunstraum.leuphana.de/en/projects/inside-wounds>
2021 Tracing the Ephemera
︎ Hopscotch Reading Room – Berlin/DE
Event series curated by Cruising Curators with the awarded grant from Draussenstadt fund in Berlin.
2021 Third Space: Disordering the Mess
︎ Lenbachhaus – Munich/DE
Year-long mediation program embedded in the art education department to facilitate dialogue between the art institution and local communities.
Project co-founded and co-coordinated with Clara Laila Abid Alsstar and Mako Sangmongkhon.
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<https://www.lenbachhaus.de/digital/gruppendynamik>
residencies
2024 Temporary Gallery, Cologne/DE. Curatorial research residency: two weeks of research in contact and communication with the artistic scene of the city of Cologne, Germany.
2022 documenta fifteen, Kassel/DE. Selected art educator in residence at CAMP Notes on education: part of the second cohort of art educators in residence in direct contact with documenta fifteen's artists and curatorial team.
2021 Fahrrender Raum, Munich/DE. from the Kulturreferat of the city of Munich, Germany, together with artist Mako Sangmonkhon. Project: Paillette*Etikette, art education project with migrant kinds on questions of identity and queerness.
2021 Sounds of Our Cities / Idensitat, Barcelona/ES.
Selected artist to a one month residency in Barcelona researching on questions of sound and sense of belonging together with a queer migrant community and tropical parakeets present in the urban landscape. Project: Cotorradio
education
2022-on going : Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
PhD candidate at Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
> Awarded with a Doctoral Scholarship (2025/2026) by the Cultural Studies Faculty and Kustraum, Leuphana University Lüneburg;
2018-20 : Dutch Art Institute – ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands
MFA in Art Praxis
> Awarded with Holland Scholarship (2018/2019) and Heij Konijn Fonds (2019/2020) and Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren Stiching (2019/2020) scholarships;
2008-12 : Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil BA in International Relations
> Exchange semester in winter 2010 at Université Paris X Nanterre, France;
teaching
2025
> Curatorial Practice as Contact
University of the Arts Berlin
seminar to Bachelor and Master's students during the 2025-2026 winter semester
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
2024
> Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowledge
Leuphana University Lüneburg
seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024-2025 winter semester (14.10.24 → 31.01.25)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2024 summer semester (02.04.24 → 03.07.24)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
2023
> “The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration Leuphana University Lüneburgseminar to Bachelor students during the 2023/2024 winter semester (17.10.23 → 01.02.24)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Decolonial Thought and Practice Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
> Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Leuphana University Lüneburg seminar to Bachelor students during the 2023 summer semester (04.04.23 → 04.07.23)
- conceptualization, lecturing and evaluation
curatorial projects
2025 [ongoing] Dissident Paths: Walking Together as a Method
︎nGbK – Berlin/DE
Work group (Cruising Curators + The ReRouting Project) responsible for artists contributions in the form of walks across Berlin in 2025/2026.
︎
<https://ngbk.de/en/programm/programm/dissident-paths-walking-together-as-a-method>
2024 Nightmares, Colonial, Neocolonial ︎Kunstraum Leuphana Universität/Scala Kino - Lüneburg/DE
Film series co-curated with Philip Rizk.
︎
<https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/641929/nightmares-colonial-neocolonial/>
2024 Inside Wounds
︎ Kunstraum Leuphana Universität - Lüneburg/DE
Performance series co-curated with Christopher Weickenmeier.
︎ <https://kunstraum.leuphana.de/en/projects/inside-wounds>
2021 Tracing the Ephemera
︎ Hopscotch Reading Room – Berlin/DE
Event series curated by Cruising Curators with the awarded grant from Draussenstadt fund in Berlin.
2021 Third Space: Disordering the Mess
︎ Lenbachhaus – Munich/DE
Year-long mediation program embedded in the art education department to facilitate dialogue between the art institution and local communities.
Project co-founded and co-coordinated with Clara Laila Abid Alsstar and Mako Sangmongkhon.
︎
<https://www.lenbachhaus.de/digital/gruppendynamik>
residencies
2024 Temporary Gallery, Cologne/DE. Curatorial research residency: two weeks of research in contact and communication with the artistic scene of the city of Cologne, Germany.
2022 documenta fifteen, Kassel/DE. Selected art educator in residence at CAMP Notes on education: part of the second cohort of art educators in residence in direct contact with documenta fifteen's artists and curatorial team.
2021 Fahrrender Raum, Munich/DE. from the Kulturreferat of the city of Munich, Germany, together with artist Mako Sangmonkhon. Project: Paillette*Etikette, art education project with migrant kinds on questions of identity and queerness.
2021 Sounds of Our Cities / Idensitat, Barcelona/ES.
Selected artist to a one month residency in Barcelona researching on questions of sound and sense of belonging together with a queer migrant community and tropical parakeets present in the urban landscape. Project: Cotorradio
education
2022-on going : Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany
PhD candidate at Cultures of Critique DFG Research Training Group (Graduiertenkolleg)
> Awarded with a Doctoral Scholarship (2025/2026) by the Cultural Studies Faculty and Kustraum, Leuphana University Lüneburg;
2018-20 : Dutch Art Institute – ArtEZ University of the Arts, The Netherlands
MFA in Art Praxis
> Awarded with Holland Scholarship (2018/2019) and Heij Konijn Fonds (2019/2020) and Schuurman Schimmel Van Outeren Stiching (2019/2020) scholarships;
2008-12 : Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP), Brazil BA in International Relations
> Exchange semester in winter 2010 at Université Paris X Nanterre, France;
contact
︎︎︎ raphaeldaibert@gmail.com
IG: rdaibert
︎︎︎ cruisingcurators@gmail.com
IG: cruisingcurators
︎︎︎ raphaeldaibert@gmail.com
IG: rdaibert
︎︎︎ cruisingcurators@gmail.com
IG: cruisingcurators