ABOUT
Mahzabin Haque believes knowledge should not be a privilege of proximity, but a shared inheritance.
Born in Bangladesh, based in Berlin, her entire practice is built around one question: her entire practice is built around questioning what happens when curatorial knowledge becomes shared infrastructure rather than guarded terrain in the context of how institutions operate, how careers take shape, and how knowledge circulates. Her research inquiries takes form on and around ecosystems of communities, learning formats, and organizational designs, built to open access across borders. With 14+ years of experience as an artworker, she develops international, community-led formats that respond to the structural opacity of the art world, creating direct encounters between artworkers, institutions, and the public. As an educator, she designs learning environments grounded in horizontal exchange, cross-cultural dialogue, and long-term relationship building - spaces where knowledge is produced collectively rather than transmitted from above. As a cultural strategist, she builds ecosystems from the ground up and sustains them over time - holding an ethos of horizontality, community, collective knowledge production, porous group dynamics, and, above all, humane practice. These three strands - art curation, education, and cultural strategy - converge in All About Curating (AAC), the decentralized global network she founded, with outreach in over 154 countries and collaborations with more than 50 institutions in Berlin. Mahzabin also founded Symbiosis: A Space for Art, Science & Technology, a platform dedicated to transdisciplinary inquiry through the lens of artworkers from the global majority - creating the spaces and access they have always deserved. Mahzabin believes projects come and go, but relationships stay. That is the ethos she brings to everything she builds, cultivates, and nurtures as an art curator, educator, and cultural strategist.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Founder & Managing Director
Built and leads a decentralized curatorial network spanning 154 countries and 50+ Berlin institutions - designing the strategy, partnerships, and infrastructure of a lasting cultural organisation.
Editorial Contribution
Contributed to the editorial development of MoMA's anthology on modern and contemporary art in South Asia including numerous exhibition publications of one of Bangladesh's foremost art foundation, Bengal Foundation, shaping how the region's art is written, published, and canonised.
Int. Festival Artistic Director
Coordinated international artists for one of the world's largest classical music festivals, welcoming over 90,000 guests each day - managing talent logistics at exceptional scale.
Int. Festival - Artist Coordinator
Coordinated international artists for one of the largest classical music festivals in the world - an event welcoming over 90,000 guests every day, where precision in talent logistics carried the entire programme.
Int. Festival - Curatorial Associate
Contributed to curatorial research and development, and exhibition design within Asia's longest-running international photography festival, recognised across the global photography world.
Archive Digitization & collection Research
Researched, digitized, and incorporated the entire collection of artist Sascha Weidner to the museum database at Sprengel Museum Hannover. At ZKM Karlsruhe, conducted research on pioneers of performance art e.g. Marina Abramović, Ulay, Dara Birnbaum, and other - for the silver jubilee of a landmark two-year exhibition.
Int. Art Fair - Presenting South Asian Artists
Represented South Asian artistic practices onto the global stage - representing Bengal Art Lounge and South Asian artists across leading international fairs, positioning a region's voices within global art markets.
Program Director, Art Education Program
Designed & conducted education programmes that open the art world's closed doors and make them accessible - Art Intensive Berlin, Art Intensive Bogota, Creative Synergies online residency program, Ask A Curator - Portfolio Review program, equipping artworkers to navigate art ecosystem(s) with confidence.
Curatorial Mentor
Mentored hundreds of artists, curators, and creative entrepreneurs worldwide on conceptual frameworks development across intensives, residencies, and open formats including Berlin's state-funded
ABC Incuba & FlussLab, among numerous others.
EDUCATION
Joint MA in Media Arts Cultures (MediaAC)
(2017 - 2020)
Completed with a full Erasmus Mundus scholarship — a joint European programme spanning three universities in three countries, with each semester taught at a new institution, and certified jointly by all three.
Partner Universities: Donau University Krems (AT) · Aalborg University (DK) · University of Łódź (PL)
Professional Documentary Photography
(2011 - 2013)
Trained at the school that put South Asian photography on the world map - the pioneering institute whose photographers and pedagogy reshaped how the region is seen, taught, and represented in global visual culture. Published and exhibited internationally.
Pathshala South Asian Media Institute (BD)
BSc. in Civil Engineering
(2005 - 2009)
Trained as a structural engineer and practised in the field - working as a structural designer and engineering manager in the construction sector before turning to art, where building things that hold remains the through-line.
Ahsanullah University of Science & Technology (Bangladesh)
AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS
Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
(2017 - 2019)
Fully funded by the European Union to pursue the Joint Master's in Media Arts Cultures — awarded through one of Europe's most competitive academic scholarship programmes.
Partner Universities: Donau University Krems (AT) · Aalborg University (DK) · University of Łódź (PL)
Rave Scholarship
(2016 - 2017)
Fully funded curatorial fellowship at the Sprengel Museum Hannover - awarded by ifa, Germany's institute for international cultural relations, to curators from across the globe working within German institutions.
ifa — Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen
Austrian Cultural Ministry Scholarship
(2016)
Fully funded participation in Curator's Agenda, Vienna - selected by Austria's Federal Ministry for Culture to join an international curatorial residency programme.
Austrian Federal Cultural Ministry