Natalie Keppler is a curator, programme dramaturge and writer for the performative, visual and discursive arts in Berlin. An art historian, theatre and applied cultural studies scholar and Fulbright scholar, she has conducted research at City University New York and the Getty Institute, Los Angeles. In 2016, she was a Curatorial Fellow for plugin, funded by the European Union.

Her research interests as a curator lie in artistic strategies of repetition and memory in the visual and performing arts and their display. From 2018 to 2020, she curated a monthly series of audiovisual performances, screenings and talks at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. As an independent curator, she has worked with the Institute for Spatial Experiments, Kunstmuseum Arnhem, Berliner Festspiele, Goethe-Institut USA and Southeast Asia, TBA21 Academy, Kulturakademie Tarabya, Kunsthalle Bern, the Migros Museum Zurich and artists such as Julien Charrière, Kerstin Cmelka, Keren Cytter, Guerreiro Do Divino Amor, Cevdet Erek, Renée Green, Irena Haiduk, Hanne Lippard, Rainer Kohlberger, Sung Tieu, Daniel Theiler, Samson Young, Som Supaparinya, Isabel Lewis. 

As part of the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme team, she has co-curated multidisciplinary festivals and is currently the director of the Performing the Archive project, which focuses on the digitisation, activation and mediation of the programme's audiovisual archive.

On 27 June, Natalie Keppler will discuss the project and the hybrid archive installation Mapping the Archive, on view at daadgalerie in Berlin from 17 May to 11 June.

Mapping the Archive gathers views from the digitised image and sound archive and marks on a map of Berlin those places and non-places that the Fellows engaged with during their residency in the 1980s and 90s. The project continuously explores the Fellows' discovery of networks of relationships, orientations and movements through Berlin in a time of upheaval. 

The lecture takes place in cooperation with the Fine Art Lecture Series of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar as part of the POWER HOUSE accompanying programme and is free and open to the public.