Marie Egger

Currently, Marie Egger (1987, DE) is a graduate student of Art History in a Global Context at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include transnational art history since the Cold War; humorous strategies in contemporary art; as well as institutional and artistic practices of archiving. She earned a combined B.A. degree in Cultural History and Theory, and Art and Visual History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; and subsequently completed an M.A. degree in Arts and Media Administration at Freie Universität Berlin with a spatial-theoretical analysis of contemporary art biennials. Egger was a research associate at Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main (2017) and a member of the curatorial teams of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2014–2016), Moscow Biennial in Russia (2015), Biennial of the Americas in Denver, Colorado (2013), and Marrakech Biennale in Morocco (2012). Prior to this, she worked as a docent and student assistant at Humboldt-University, and oversaw the archive of the exhibition history of Gropius Bau, Berlin (2008–2014). In 2016, she was the Curatorial Fellow of formerly known as Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she conducted an artistic research project on the archive of the institution.