WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO

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rampe:aktion is an association of Berlin-based artists, cultural workers and social workers. The group was founded in 2019 by Christian Diaz Orejarena, Lara Dade, Christian Limber and Miriam Trostorf. With different social and professional backgrounds, we work together on a socially motivated and action-based practice that is located at the intersection of visual arts, social work and film. In cooperation with various art and cultural venues, we realise projects that open up collective creative spaces, experiment with collaborative film practice and encourage young people to get creative. In our activities and workshops, we open up access to cultural institutions for different people.
We take an interdisciplinary approach in our search for idiosyncratic aesthetics and social interaction. Information about our mission statement can be found at

︎ Engagement Minifesto

Our projects are funded by:

Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung // DRAUSSENSTADT // Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis // NEUSTART KULTUR // Fonds Soziokultur // Künste öffnen Welten //...


We work together with:

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf // Museum der Dinge // n.b.k., Neuer Berliner Kunstverein // Club Solitaer e.V. Chemnitz // M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung, Hohenlockstedt // nGbK, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst Berlin // Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg // Kommunale Galerie Adlershof // IB Marienfelde /Jugendamt Tempelhof-Schöneberg // Stiftung Berliner Mauer, Erinnerungsstätte Marienfelde // Ojo al Sancocho Festival de Cine Communitario Bogotá, Colombia

rampe:aktion sind:

︎  Lara Dade studied social work at Alice Salomon University in Berlin and has been working as a freelance art educator with children and young people since 2016 in various projects for the Berlin State Museums, as well as in other educational formats, e.g. in Hamburg and Hohenlockstedt. In 2021/22, she received the VW Fellowship for Art Education from the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg. She also leads artistic metal welding workshops, several bicycle self-help workshops, a bicycle club for girls, and is fluent in Turkish.

Her own artistic work ranges from drawing and collage to photography and experimental film.

︎  Miriam Trostorf
works as a freelance cultural and art educator and curator in Berlin. She focuses on collaborative and anti-discriminatory approaches in cultural education and art education. She studied ethnology and completed a master's degree in cultural studies. In her projects, she attempts to interpret curatorial practice with a focus on social interaction. She received the VW Fellowship for Art Education 21/22 and the Berlin Senate's Research Grant 2022 for her curatorial work. Together with Lara Dade, she received the Hatun Sürüci Prize in 2022 for her commitment to gender-sensitive work with refugee girls.

 ︎ Christian Diaz Orejarena studied conceptual and media art in Berlin and Vienna. He works in drawing, film and performance on research-based and interdisciplinary projects, which are often created in a collective context. In 2021, he published the graphic novel Otras Rayas – Andere Linien (Other Lines) about German colonialism in Colombia with Golden Press Verlag. Together with Sahba Sahebi, he staged it as a multimedia lecture performance at venues including HKW Berlin and the Münchener Kammerspiele.
His actions, short films and installations have been shown internationally at film festivals and in museums.


 ︎  Christian Limber
studied social work at Alice Salomon University in Berlin and is studying art and media in the narrative film class at Berlin University of the Arts. In his auto-fictional photo and film works, he searches for answers and changes in his own identity and family history, attempting to understand the connection between post-socialist socialisation, capitalist modes of (re)production, class struggle, masculinities, family relationships and friendships.