![Isabel Raabe in front of a gray wall, her upper body leaning to the right, her face looking to the side. Her gray wavy hair is tied in a braid at the nape of her neck, she is wearing a muted green top, a gold necklace with a pendant, gold hoop earrings and bright orange lipstick.](https://tanzarchiv-berlin.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Isabel-Raabe_Foto-Andreas-Roth-1280x1280-1.webp)
Isabel Raabe
Isabel Raabe is a curator and cultural producer based in Berlin. She studied contemporary dance and later cultural management and is interested in curatorial and artistic strategies that disrupt Western perspectives and thought traditions. She is co-initiator of the award-winning RomArchive – Digital Archive of the Sinti and Roma. In 2022, Ch. Links Verlag published her book Widerstand durch Kunst – Sinti und Roma und ihr kulturelles Schaffen (Raabe/Rose/Pankok), which came out ofher work on the RomArchive. In 2019, she initiated the ongoing artistic research project TALKING OBJECTS – Decolonizing Knowledge, which she curates together with a team of curators from Germany, Senegal and Kenya. TALKING OBJECTS explores questions of what knowledge can be today, beyond the European canon, and looks at knowledge systems and practices from the African continent.