Zest kollektiv

Zest Kollektiv (Lu Herbst, Lucie Jo Knilli, Charlotte Perka, and Lioba Wachtel) is a decentralized working group dedicated to artistic processes of (un)learning and creating spaces of care. Collaborating with students, researchers, and activists, we examine power structures, strengthen intersectional feminist solidarities, and foster collective learning processes. Our practice weaves hosting, reading, bread baking, and sharing into participatory formats, such as reflective dinners. Together with Katharina Brenner and Destina Atasayar, we organized A New School A Summer School – (Re)imagining Learning Environments in 2023. As former students from various art universities, we co-initiated the groups Eine Krise Bekommen, KD Stammtisch, and In the Meantime, which form the roots of our current artistic research practice.