A person is standing in front of a doorway, the background in the picture is blurred. The person is white and is wearing dark blue trousers and a dark blue jacket over a white T-shirt. The left hand is tucked into the trouser pocket. The hair is dark brown, wavy and laid forward over the left shoulder. The person is looking into the camera. — Photo Mayra Wallraff

Agnes Kern

Agnes Kern (they/them) works as a project and production manager in the field of contemporary dance, culture, education and fine arts. Agnes led the project Archivkompliz*innen – Tanzarchive in Bewegung for TanzArchiv Berlin in 2022 and TanzArchiv Berlin digital in 2023. With a background in dance studies and art history, Agnes also has a focus on queer dance historiography and archives as community work. They initiated an archival project on the dancer Iris Barbura, together with the German Dance Archive Cologne and the Centrul National al Dansului Bucuresti (CNDB), Romania in 2017. The reflection of their own privileges, positioning and critique of discrimination is fundamental to their activities. Agnes is white, non-binary, hearing, non-disabled and has experienced classism.