Culture Shifts Magazine

Our guests on this podcast are Malte Bedürftig and Thomas Noppen in Berlin. Both are founders and CEOs of GoVolunteer – Germany's largest volunteering community that facilitates encounters and exchange through social engagement. Besides GoVolunteer, they developed several platforms with a focus on social engagement and entrepreneurship. Malte and Thomas just launched their umbrella organization called “JOIN IMPACT”. In this episode we talk about the chances and challenges of social entrepreneurship, the organizations under the JOIN IMPACT roof and future prospects. August 2021.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

Our guest on this podcast is Laura Aalto in Helsinki. Laura is CEO of Helsinki Marketing. Helsinki Marketing is the City of Helsinki’s owned company and is responsible for operative city marketing and business partnerships for Helsinki. In this episode of Culture Shifts Magazine Podcast we speak about happiness, city marketing in times of the pandemic, the cultural mission and projects of Helsinki and how to attract visitors that fit to a modern and sustainable character and the vision of a city. May 2021.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

Our guest on this podcast is Laila Binbrek in Dubai. Laila has been the Coordinating Director of the National Pavilion UAE, which presents the United Arab Emirates’ annual exhibition at the Venice Biennale. She has worked to set the Pavilions ongoing strategy and vision and will open the pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. In this episode of Culture Shifts Magazine Podcast we speak about Lailas work in the UAE and in Venice, the importance of nature and the way we live and about why telling untold stories is one of the main cultural strategies of the UAE. April 2021. Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

In the fourth Culture Shifts Magazine + Various Others podcasts episode we speak to the Munich based gallerists Matthias Kunz and Nir Altman about running a gallery in these times. Matthias is director of Galerie Sabine Knust and the founder and director of the project space KnustxKunz. Nir is founder and director of Nir Altman gallery. Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

During this year's Corona lockdown we interviewed American media theorist, writer, columnist and academic Douglas Rushkoff. He is known for his connections to early cyberpunk culture and his encouragement of open-source solutions for social problems. In this episode of Culture Shifts Magazine Podcast we speak about Douglas Rushkoff's work and research, how technology is being used during a worldwide crisis and about how human beings can still be the solution for all existing problems. May/October 2020.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

In the third episode of Culture Shifts Magazine + Various Others podcasts we speak to Patrizia Dander, chief curator at Museum Brandhorst and Maurin Dietrich, director of the Kunstverein Munich about the cities various cultural movements and influences, the problems and challenges of local public space and the well connected social infrastructure of Munich. September 2020.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

The guests of our second Culture Shifts Magazine + Various Others podcast episode are Eva Huttenlauch, Head of Collections and Curator, Art after 1945 at the Lenbachhaus museum Munich and Stefan Fuchs, a munich based artist and one of the founders of the project space Loggia. We speak about different curatorial practices of museums and project-spaces, housing in Munich and visions for a new municipal Kunsthalle. September 2020.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

In our first Culture Shifts Magazine + Various Others podcast episode we speak to two of the founders of the Munich initiative for contemporary art. Together with Nina Buchwaldt Warburg and Tim Geissler we talk about Various Others' structure, its program and the cultural variety of Munich. September 2020.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

In the third Culture Shifts Podcast, we speak to Chiara Costa. She is an art historian, researcher and the new Head of Programs of Fondazione Prada. We talk about her new position, the structure and program of the foundation and why soon neuroscientists will be influential in working with artists. And why books are still the most relevant medium of our time. February 2020. Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

In the second Culture Shifts Podcast we speak to curator and writer Attilia Fattori Franchini about her work, the complexity of cultural structures in different cities and the importance of artists and creatives in the 21st century. January 2020. Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.