Fernanda Parente



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GoetheVRsum - Goethe-Institut e.V. (2023-2025)

Project Lead of cross-functional team to pioneer a metaverse standard for cultural events across 98 countries, crafting inclusive, immersive frameworks and forging global partnerships to reimagine how culture is experienced and exchanged digitally.


Artists and cultural workers meet in the GoetheVRsum as part of the project “Beyond Borders - Hub for artists from Sudan”. 

Artistic Practice in the Metaverse - Berlin University of the Arts (2022-2024)

Development of curriculum and teaching of hybrid VR-based course focusing on immersive media and its impact on artistic expression. In collaboration with Katharina Haverich.



Virtually Real - Van Ham Auctions (2022)

Curation of Germany’s largest art NFT auction to date, in close collaboration with 14 participating artists. The collection featured many hybrid works created exclusively for the event, pushing the boundaries between physical and digital art.

“D1ck #1635” by UBERMORGEN
“Realia I” by Sabrina Ratté
“One Last Click and I'll be Gone” by Martina Menegon
Pixel Party web series - ARD Kultur (2022)

Co-development of the concept, storytelling, and curation of protagonists for a four-part web series on digital culture for the public broadcaster ARD. Topics: Metaverse, hybrid worlds, AI, crypto art, and NFTs. Watch


Beuys AR - beuys 2021. 100 jahre joseph beuys (2021)

Curation and production of immersive site-specific AR experience that blended cultural heritage with digital innovation, while coordinating stakeholder engagement and funding efforts across a network of institutional partners.

 
The experience was designed for three locations in Düsseldorf, which are of great significance to Joseph Beuys.


Jemand Society - Goethe-Institut USA (2021-2022)

Curation and management of speculative futures project in collaboration with Goethe-Institut USA and four visionary artists. Drawing inspiration from Bertha von Suttner’s Das Maschinenzeitalter (1889), the artists imagined our present from a distant future, creating hybrid artistic interventions that were presented to international audiences across digital and physical spaces.

From left to right, details of works by Jemand Society artists: Jeremy Bailey, “PAC” (2022); Janne Kummer, “XOwB” (2022); Lucie Freynhagen, “Wunderkammer of Passing Futures” (2021), and Sam Lavigne, “Capitalist Gene” (2022)



Future Affairs - re:publica/German Foreign Office (2019)

Programme curation of international conference exploring the intersections of digitality, politics, and global futures—featuring talks, workshops, and an art exhibition—with a strong focus on inclusive programming and voices from emerging regions.



Curatorial Advisor kulturBdigital Conference - Technologiestiftung Berlin (2024)
Curator central exhibition at KINDL - 48hrs Neukölln (2021)
Co-Curator, KI Biennale Essen (2021)
Co-Curator, Museum Futures Martin Roth Symposium (2020)
Programme Curator Labore:tory, re:publica (2017)
Project Lead, re:publica Dublin (2017)
Guest Curator, Screen City Biennial (2017)
Founder & Artistic Director of Shebeen Flick Irish Film Festival Berlin (2012-2018)
Head of Programme Digital Biscuit, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland (2012-2016)