Since 02/2024              Universität Zürich,                                                                                                                                         PhD in Empirical Cultural Studies,                                                                                                               Project for dissertation: Interventionskonflikte: Aushandlungsprozesse                                                       zwischen Wissenschaften, Künsten und Öffentlichkeiten (working title)

    10/2015 – 09/2018       Goethe-Universität/Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main                                                                                   Curatorial Studies – Theory-History-Criticism, M. A.,                                                                                   Thesis: New Museology und „Source Communities“. Diskurse von                                                             Chancen und Herausforderungen bei kollaborativen Museumsprojekten

     08/2014 – 01/2015      Universität Stockholm, Schweden                                                                                                               Social Anthropology   

     10/2012 – 09/2015      Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen                                                                                                           Empirical Cultural Studies, English and American Studies, B. A.,                                                               Thesis: The Museum Selfie as the Emergence                                                                                           of a Cultural Practice – Opportunity or Threat?

     Since 01/2023              Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin                                                                                                                    Doctoral Researcher at Collaborative Research Centre 1512                                                                    “Intervening Arts”

     11/2020 – 12/2022        Linden-Museum Stuttgart                                                                                                                             Research Assistant and Project Manager „LindenLAB“                               

     11/2018 – 11/2020        Landesmuseum Württemberg/Museum der Alltagskultur, Stuttgart                                                             Position as a Research Trainee                               

     09/2016 – 05/2017        Frobenius-Institut, Frankfurt am Main                                                                                                           Freelance Work in Ethnographic Collection                                                   

     11/2015 – 11/2016        Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main                                                                                                             Student Assistant                                                                                             

      02/2015 – 07/2015       Stadtmuseum, Stuttgart                                                                                                                               Freelance Work in Cultural Mediation („Stadtlabor“)

      2021                             Founder of „Museums For Future Germany“

      2019 – 2020                 Spokesperson for the Research Trainees at                                                                                               Museumsverband Baden-Württemberg e.V.

      2019                             Scholarship holder of Henry Arnhold Dresden Summer School,                                                                 Topic: „Kulturinstitutionen im Fokus gesellschaftlicher Polarisierungen“

    Winter Semester 2023/2024            Radical Futures? Museums, collectives and public(s) as                                                                            places of intervention, together with Hana Ćurak and Sarah Etz

Project for dissertation "Conflicts of Intervention: Negotiation Processes between Academia, Arts and Public Spheres"

The Collaborative Research Centre 1512 "Intervening Arts" is characterized by an (inter-) disciplinary and material-rich examination of intervening art practices and art forms. In the individual projects, the researchers work together with artists and cultural institutions or try out aesthetic-experimental formats themselves as part of their research.

In my dissertation, I analyze the connections between academia, arts and public spheres as a multi-layered network of relationships that is constituted by the Collaborative Research Centre and its research partners. This network of relationships is characterized by various conditions, such as inter- or trans-institutional cooperations with partners, (state) funding opportunities for artistic projects, but also by the growing imperative of effect of the sciences in public areas.

I examine the collaborative formats and research of the Collaborative Research Centre, which unfold in sensory and media practices with their meaning in relational material-symbolic arrangements and economies. In this context, various artistic and research practices of the Collaborative Research Centre and the associated networks of relationships interact multidirectionally. They are part of larger socio-political contexts that are power-laden and asymmetrical. For example, the economic conditions and institutional requirements of artistic and academic work are conflictual. The resulting tensions between academia, arts and the public sphere are evident in various places and are also reflected in the laboratory formats and collaborations of the research network itself.

At the same time, artistic and research practices are to be understood as part of an aesthetic practice in which actors can create differences, affiliations and meanings, but also undermine them. By intervening in social contexts within the Collaborative Research Centre, the arts and artistic methods themselves (inter)act in social, political and cultural public spheres or create them. In my dissertation, I examine the resulting relationships between academia, arts and public spheres and their effects as specific logics of intervention. I understand them as practices of making oneself understood between different actors, which are sometimes influenced by certain policies.

    2024             Review: Büchel, Julia: „Repräsentation – Partizipation – Zugänglichkeit. Theorie und                               Praxis gesellschaftlicher Einbindung in Museen und Ausstellungen.“ in: Zeitschrift für                               Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (1/24). 

    2023             „Das Linden-Museum befragt die Stuttgarter Stadtgesellschaft. Vorstellungen und                                   Zukunftsperspektiven für ein ethnologisches Museum.“, in: Standbein Spielbein – Vom                           kritischen Vermitteln und Verlernen im Museum (1/23), pp. 93-101.

                         „LindenLAB 8 − Was bleibt?! Erkenntnisse für die Zukunft des Linden-Museums.“, in:                               LindenLAB. Partizipation, Provenienz, Präsentation. Projektdokumentation 2019-2023,                           pp. 154-159.

                         „Was bleibt. Eine Auswahl an Ergebnissen aus unserer Befragung zum                                                     Linden-Museum 2021.“ URL: https://www.lindenmuseum-befragung2021.de/                                           (last access on 28/02/2024).

     2022            „Kennen Sie das Linden-Museum?“, in: neues museum. Die österreichische                                             Museumszeitschrift 1(22), pp. 20-25.

     2021             Review: Sarr, Felwine und Bénédicte Savoy: „Zurückgeben. Über die Restitution                                      afrikanischer Kulturgüter,“ in: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde (1/21), pp. 123-125.           

     2020             „Mülltrennung ist Einstellungssache. Müllwerker*innen als Akteur*innen im                                                Klimawandel“, in: Kuckuck. Notizen zur Alltagskultur (2/20),pp. 44-47.

     2019              „Q wie Qualität und Quantität“, in: Jubiläumspublikation Das Museum der Alltagskultur                            von A bis Z.

     2017              „Chocolate and a Fake Cherry Tree“, in: Jubiläumspublikation 200 Jahre                                                  Städelschule, pp. 55-132.

      08/10/2020       Lecture at the conference An ethnology lab on the workings of Covid-19                                                   on museums by the SIEF working group Museums & Material Culture,                                                     by COMCOL and the Reinwardt Academy,                                                                                                 titel: „Back to normality? Everyday life defies Corona”