Stefanie Schulte Strathaus is co-director of Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art. From 2006 - 2021 she was the head of the Berlinale section Forum Expanded which she co-founded together with Anselm Franke. Schulte Strathaus has curated a number of film programmes, retrospectives and exhibitions including “Who says concrete doesn’t burn, have you tried? West Berlin Film in the ’80s” and “Live Film! Jack Smith! Five Flaming Days in a Rented World”. In 2011, she launched the ongoing “Living Archive – Archive Work as a Contemporary Artistic and Curatorial Practice” project. She currently curates a collaborative project which resulted in the foundation of the archive festival “Archival Assembly“. She is on the boards of the Harun Farocki Institut, NAAS (Network of Arab Alternative Screens) and the Master program Film Culture at the University in Jos/Nigeria.