Kerstin Stakemeier (born 1975) is a writer and organizer. She currently works in a Berlin-based gallery and is a researcher in Theory at the Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht. Stakemeier is also completing her PhD in the History of Art at University College, London. Most of her practice is realized in collaboration with others, often with Christiane Ketteler and Johannes Paul Raether. From 2007 to 2008 she ran the Space for Actualization, Hamburg together with Nina Köller, working together with artists, musicians, and writers to actualize fragments of the past. Stakemeier’s writings are published in magazines such as Afterall, Jungle World, Phase 2, and Texte zur Kunst. She is currently working on reformulations of realism as a take on artistic production. Stakemeier lives and works in Berlin and Maastricht. [Last updated 2009]
