short vita

Melanie Waldheim has been coordinating project development at the Berlin Career College/Zentralinstitut für Weiterbildung (ZIW) since September 2015 and is responsible for the organisation and conception of the Artist Training (formerly Refugee Class) for exile artists since 2016. She is also the deputy part-time women's representative and a member of the institute council at the ZIW and is deputy chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission.

Before that she was editor at the Landesverband Berliner Galerien (lvbg) for various publications such as catalogue brochures, the art calendar Berliner Galerien and its online portal. She also directed the project Comic Connection for refugee and Berlin artists for the international literature festival berlin (ilb) and moderated events in international children's and youth literature. She also organised the funding for the ilb. Her professional basis is a dissertation in the field of German Studies / Art History on art descriptions in exhibition spaces around 1800 at the FU Berlin and the postgraduate course in Cultural Management.