Jury member of the Openart Lausitz Biennale
Leonie Baumann has been shaping Berlin’s cultural landscape for decades in key roles. From 2022 to 2026, as curator of the Capital Cultural Fund, she was responsible for supporting major cultural projects in the city. Prior to that, she was rector of the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin.
Her professional career began in 1980 in Osnabrück, before she made her mark in Berlin from 1985 onwards – initially in the field of art in architecture and public spaces, and later, from 1991 to 2011, as director of the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (nGbK). In addition to her long-standing involvement on advisory boards such as Urbane Künste Ruhr, the Federal Ministry of Construction’s Expert Group on Art in Architecture, and as co-spokesperson for the Council for the Arts in Berlin, she provided decisive impetus for a reorientation of Berlin’s property policy as co-founder of the ‘Stadt Neudenken’ initiative.