Nora Sternfeld

Nora Sternfeld (1976, Vienna) is an educator and curator. She is a documenta Professor at the Kunsthochschule Kassel. She is a co-director of the ecm (educating/curating/managing) Master Programme in exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. With Ines Garnitschnig, Renate Höllwart, and Elke Smodics, she is part of trafo.K, Office for Art, Education and Critical Knowledge Production in Vienna. With Irit Rogoff, Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Mao Mollona, and Louis Moreno, she is part of freethought, a platform for research, education, and production in London. She was a Professor of Curating and Mediating Art at Aalto University in Helsinki (2012-2018). She publishes on contemporary art, exhibition theory, education, politics of history, and anti-racism. (2019)

Publications

• editor, with Beatrice Jaschke and Charlotte Martinz-Turek, Wer spricht? Autorität und Autorschaft in Ausstellungen, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2005, 219 pp. (German)

• with Ljubomir Bratić and Hannah Stippl, Alles möglich, Innsbruck: Tiroler Künstlerschaft, 2006. (German)

• Das Pädagogische Unverhältnis. Lehren und Lernen bei Rancière, Gramsci und Foucault, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2009. (German)

• editor, with Belinda Kazeem and Charlotte Martinz-Turek, Das Unbehagen im Museum. Postkoloniale Museologien, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2009, 236 pp. (German)

• editor, with Luisa Ziaja, Fotografie und Wahrheit. Bilddokumente in Ausstellungen, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2010. Introduction. (German)

• editor, with Beatrice Jaschke, educational turn. Handlungsräume der Kunst- und Kulturvermittlung, Vienna: Turia + Kant, 2012, 234 pp. (German)

• Kontaktzonen der Geschichtsvermittlung. Transnationales Lernen über den Holocaust in der postnazistischen Migrationsgesellschaft, Vienna: Zaglossus, 2013. (German)

• editor, with Kaija Kaitavuori and Laura Kokkonen, It's All Mediating: Outlining and Incorporating the Roles of Curating and Education in the Exhibition Context, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. Introduction. (English)

• editor, with Natalie Bayer and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Kuratieren als antirassistische Praxis, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. [1] [2] (German)
  • Curating as Anti-Racist Practice, Espoo: Aalto University, 2019, 326 pp. (English)

• Das radikaldemokratische Museum, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 288 pp. Assembles twelve essays, published between 2012 and 2018, about the radical reconceptualisation of museums as contested public spaces. TOC. Publisher. Reviews: Landau (Third Text), Walz (H-Soz-Kult), Chwatal (Springerin) [3], Schopferer (KM) [4], Asche & Döring (ZEK). Interviews: Asche & Döring (Museological Rev), Prottas (J Mus Edu). (German)

• editor, with Martina Griesser-Stermscheg and Luisa Ziaja, Sich mit Sammlungen anlegen. Gemeinsame Dinge und alternative Archive, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020, 300 pp. (German)

• editor, with Ayşe Güleç, Carina Herring, Gila Kolb and Julia Stolba, vermittlung vermitteln. Fragen, Forderungen und Versuchsanordnungen von Kunstvermittler*innen im 21. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst – nGbK, 2020. (German)

• I det postrepræsentationelle museum, Copenhagen: Billedkunstskolernes Forlag, and Kunsten som Forum, 2022. [5] (Danish)

• co-editor, Widersprüche. Kuratorisch handeln zwischen Theorie und Praxis, De Gruyter, 2022. (German)

• editor, with Grégoire Rousseau, Radio as Radical Education, Helsinki: Station of Commons, 2024, 108 pp. Project. Book launch.

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Links

• http://freethought-collective.net/
• http://www.trafo-k.at/
• http://www.ecm.ac.at/
• http://www.schnitt.org/
• http://cummastudies.wordpress.com/
• https://documenta-studies.net/
• http://art-education.hfbk.net/
• https://inglam.org/
• https://norasternfeld.tumblr.com/
• https://x.com/norasternfeld
• https://hfbk.academia.edu/NoraSternfeld
• https://hfbk-hamburg.de/en/namenregister/nora-sternfeld/