Geraldine Hepp

Artist | Co-founder OFF/TRACK | Co- Director KdK | Consultant & Facilitator

Culture - Inner Work - Community

Art- In my art work I interrogate the poetic life through various mediums. Currently my focus is on a film exploring our relationship to aging, death, beauty and the power of presence. In my music, I create experimental acoustic songs, soundscapes and sonic meditations with guitar, piano, voice and atmospheric sounds, leaving my productions raw, improvised, open to continuation and co-creation.

Artist Collective & Residencies- As co-founder and creative director of the artist collective OFF/TRACK I create catalytic experiences with artists and culture-makers for collaboration, artistic growth and deep dialogue across boundaries - often on moving trains or hybrid residencies. The work is considering, exploring and re-contextualizing power-dynamics, entangled histories and potential futures while anchoring our embodied experience firmly in the magic of now.

Cultural Management- As co-executive director of Karneval der Kulturen i support with Aissatou Binger Germany's biggest annual antiracist cultural intervention for belonging and diversity in the public domain in Berlin through a transformation process.
I'm also currently doing a Masters in International Arts and Culture Management at Leuphana University in collaboration with Goethe Institut.

Consulting & Facilitating- Building on my work with Amani Institute (see below) I continue to work as a consultant, mentor and facilitator for social and cultural innovation, organizational culture, leadership development, inner work and community weaving. One example is a program for Artists in Exile by the Career College at the University of Arts in Berlin.

Previously, in my decade-long work with Amani Institute I explored the intersection of personal and social change through our program 'the Inner Journey of the Changemaker'. As part of the founding team I saw the Institute from start-up to scaling phase on 3 continents, designing leadership trainings and events for 1000s of professionals from 70+ different countries and innovation programs for cultural hubs around the world and explored what governance system can scale growing communities.

Vision- My work is centered around co-creating transformative and restorative experiences of belonging. I work with people with the courage and moral imagination to envision a world rooted in love and aligned with our highest potential.