raphael daibert
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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.
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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.
︎
<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;
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