Jutta von Falkenhausen 
is an independent lawyer in Berlin. Her areas of expertise include foundation law, legal business advice for non-profit and civil society companies, and art and cultural property law. She volunteers in the committees of various non-profit associations and foundations in the fields of culture, education, equality, and international understanding.

Friederike Hofmeister
studied communication science and has worked for many years in various major cultural institutions in Berlin, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Konzerthaus Berlin, and the Berlin State Opera. She was part of the team that founded Radialsystem, and has helped shape its development for over a decade in her role as managing director. She subsequently became managing director of the Leipzig Bach Archive Foundation. Friederike Hofmeister now works as a coach, assisting leadership figures with complex processes involving decision-making and change. 

Sabine Bangert (Chair)
"Culture is not just nice to have – culture is an essential part of Berlin’s DNA, it makes our city worth living in, diverse, and sustainable. That’s why the people creating culture in Berlin deserve our appreciation!"

Born in 1955, a trained carpenter and journalist with Swabian roots, and a Berliner since 1988. From 2011 to 2021 she served as a member of the Berlin House of Representatives (Alliance 90/The Green Party) focusing on cultural and labour market policy. Between 2016 and 2021 she was chair of the Committee on Cultural Affairs. She has been on the board for the Goldrausch Women’s Network Berlin e.V. since 2001, and co-founded the Women in the Supervisory Board initiative FidAR. She has been a senior member of the board for the Radial Foundation Berlin since October 2022.

Dr. Pascal Decker (Deputy Chair)
is a versatile German lawyer, member of the supervisory board, and cultural manager specialising in arts and cultural law. He is currently chair of the supervisory board at artnet AG, a position he has held since 2020. Furthermore, he is founder and partner of the dtb rechtsanwälte law firm, which specialises in art, foundation, media, and trademark law.

Decker has over 20 years experience as a lawyer and patron of the arts. In 2020 her founded legeARTIS Compliance, a consulting firm for artists and cultural workers. He is actively engaged in the cultural field, having been a member of the VBKI Culture Committee since 2015, and on the board of supervisors at HAU Theatre Hebbel am Ufer since 2024. 

Previously, Decker was director of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation in Berlin from 2014 to 2018. In addition, he is a visiting lecturer in copyright and art law at the University of Arts Berlin.

Decker’s expertise extends into strategic advice, including on the formation of foundations, corporate succession, and market positioning for artists. He is also a specialised arts dispute arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAfA).

Jochen Sandig
was born in Esslingen am Neckar. He moved to Berlin in 1990 to study psychology and philosophy, founding the Kunsthaus Tacheles in the same year. In 1993, he and Sasha Waltz formed Sasha Waltz & Guests. This was followed by a new free production site for dance and theatre, the Sophiensaele in Berlin Mitte, which he ran until the end of 1999. From 2000 to 2004, Jochen Sandig was an artistic director at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin. He has been director of Sasha Waltz & Guests GmbH since 2004. He founded Radialsystem on the banks of the Spree with Folkert Uhde in 2006, as a “space for arts and ideas.” He was proclaimed a “Knight of the order of Arts and Letters” in 2010.

In February 2012 Jochen Sandig celebrated his directorial debut with “human requiem,” a production of Johannes Brahms’ “Deutschen Requiem” made with the Rundfunkchor Berlin under the direction of Simon Halsey. Since its premiere in Radialsystem, the production has toured to Hamburg, Amsterdam, Paris, Granada, Rotterdam, Athens, Hong Kong, Adelaide and New York. It won the prestigious “Classical:NEXT Innovation Award 2016.”

As part of his sociopolitical engagement, Jochen Sandig is one of three founders of the World Human Forum in Delphi, Greece. He was director of the Ludwigsburg Festival from 2019 to 2024. Jochen Sandig was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2022.

Folkert Uhde
developed the concept of concert design in his artistic work, establishing it as a theory in the discourse around new concert formats in classical music. He is artistic director of the Köthen Bach Festival, and developed the Montforter Zwischentöne arts festival in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg with Hans-Joachim Gögl. He has shared the role of artistic director with Austrian dancer and choreographer Silvia Salzmann since 2026. The HUGO student competition for new concert dramaturgies also grew out of the Montforter Zwischentöne festival. His own artistic projects, ranging between concert design, directorial work and video installation, maintain an international presence. Alongside his artistic-conceptual work, the topic of regional development through culture has become increasingly important for Folkert Uhde in recent years. 

Folkert Uhde teaches at several colleges and universities, advising institutions on artistic and strategic future-oriented issues and working as a mentor. As artistic director of the international research project Experimental Concert Research, he has researched the concert experience from the audience’s perspective with an interdisciplinary team.

He founded Radialsystem alongside Jochen Sandig, and remains a partner to this day. In 2009 he was voted “Culture Manager of the Year” for his innovative approach in connection with Radialsystem in Berlin. The music show “Dasch-Salon” for 3SAT and concert film “4 Elements” for ARTE and harmonia mundi were both developed and produced by Folkert Uhde and recorded in Radialsystem. 

Folkert Uhde ran the Uhde & Harckensee Music Management agency from 1997 until 2008. He was responsible for the international management of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin during this time. He conceptualised the Biennale Zeitfenster - Festival for Baroque Music for the Konzerthaus Berlin between 2002 - 2008, and was artistic director of the ION Music Festival in Nuremberg between 2013 and 2018. He previously worked as a project manager, baroque violinist and technician. 

Folkert Uhde’s most recent initiative is the founding of the Köthen BACH Academy as a forum for contemporary concert culture. 

Sasha Waltz
is a choreographer, dancer, and director. She studied dance and choreography in Amsterdam and New York before founding the Sasha Waltz & Guests company in 1993 with Jochen Sandig. She is a co-founder of the Sophiensaele (1996) and Radialsystem (2006). She was an artistic director at the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz from 1999 until 2004.

The development of innovative, interdisciplinary forms of performance and creation is an important feature of her artistic work. Her repertoire spans from internationally recognised dance pieces like the “Travelogue” trilogy (1993/1995) or “Bodies” (2000) to choreographed operas (“Dido & Aeneas”, 2005) and explorative “Dialogue” projects (like “Dialogue 09 - New Museum”) through to recent works such as “SYM-PHONIE MMXX” (2022) or “Beethoven 7” (2023), whose central feature is the intermingling of choreography and music. To celebrate the 300th anniversary of its premiere, she staged a production of the “St. John Passion” (BMV 245) by Johann Sebastian Bach in Spring 2024 as a universal, timeless narrative on the human search for truth, justice, and hope, extending beyond its religious origins.  

At the same time, Sasha Waltz is committed to the transfer of choreographic knowledge and to dance as a medium for social and sociopolitical understanding. In 2021 she developed her work “In C,” based upon Terry Riley’s composition of the same name. Since then, it has not only been successfully performed both nationally and internationally, but has also developed into its own system with a growing global community.

Sasha Waltz received an Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2011 in recognition of her special services. She has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin since June 2013. In 2021, the choreographer was named “Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters” by the French culture minister, the highest category in the Order. Sasha Waltz was awarded the German Dance Prize in 2024. In May 2025, Sasha Waltz was presented with the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis; an award that honours international figures whose significant work stands for democracy and the common good.