A self portrait of Kaspar wearing a mask of collaged ethnographic images in the dumpster of the Humboldt Forum (2024), masked performance, UDK: Berlin IFKIK. Image: Barbara Beilitz.
Featured Grantee Story13 Aug 2025
Kaspar Schmidt Mumm
Context is everything – and for artist Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, it’s also homework while he studies at UDK Berlin.
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