Anna Schäffler
Anna Schäffler is an art historian and curator. She studied art history as well as modern and contemporary history in Berlin and Madrid. She researches contemporary art preservation at the interface between art history, conservation and curating. Based on her practical experience with Anna Oppermann's estate, in her dissertation she examined the posthumous preservation of process-based installation works and the consequences for the concept of work and authorship. In her curatorial projects she develops f.e. exhibition formats to convey the practices and processes of art production.
Anna Schäffler also focusses on the "networks of care" of art preservation between public memory institutions and private and civil society actors. To this end, in 2019 she co-founded the Capri.Care. She was a junior fellow of the research group BildEvidenz at the Freie Universität Berlin (2018-2019) and a coordinator of the interdisciplinary PhD and postdoc network CoCARe (Conservation of Contemporary Art Research, 2015-2018). She is a member of INCCA (International Network of Conservation of Contemporary Art) and the Federal Association of Artists' Legacies.
- Publications
- Die Kunst der Erhaltung. Zeitgenössische Restaurierung und Nachlasspraxis im Wandel anhand von Anna Oppermanns prozesshaften Installationen, Munich: Metzel, 2020, 320 pp. [1] (German)
- editor, with Friederike Schäfer and Nanne Buurman, Networks of Care: Politiken des (Er)haltens und (Ent)sorgens, Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), 2022, 178 pp. (German)/(English)
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