Mirko Winkel

Mirko Winkel is an artist, curator and coordinator of mLAB, a laboratory at the Institute of Geography at the University of Bern that promotes artistic approaches to research and dialogical knowledge communication. He studied fine art and
performance art and comes from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). In his researchbased and context-sensitive works, he experiments with narrative forms to re-examine social issues and explores how different knowledge practices can be translated into one another. He also works at the EcoArtLab at the Bern Academy of the Arts. He took on the curatorial direction of the exhibition ‘Atlas of Reproduction’.