Marie Egger
Marie Egger (M.A.) is a PhD-candidate in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests revolve around the interplay between visual art and culture, politics, and the public sphere since the Cold War, as well as institutional and artistic archiving practices. Currently, her focus is on mail art in the GDR.
Marie Egger earned a combined B.A. in Cultural History and Theory, and Art and Visual History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, completing her thesis on the motives of modern flânerie. Subsequently, she earned an M.A. in Arts and Media Administration at Freie Universität Berlin with a spatial-theoretical analysis of the rise of contemporary art biennials since the 1990s. Additionally, she completed an M.A. in Art History in a Global Context with a work monograph on a photographic mail art object from the GDR.
Between 2019 to 2022, she worked as a student assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” and at the Research Centre “The Technical Image”. From 2023 to 2024, Marie Egger has held the position of Research Associate at University Potsdam. Her academic pursuits have been supported by grants from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Erhard Höpfner Foundation, Humboldt University in Berlin, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Furthermore Marie Egger has held various curatorial positions, for example on the teams of the Marrakech Biennale in Morocco (2012), the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, Colorado (2013), the Moscow Biennial in Russia (2015); and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2014–2015). In 2016, she received a Curatorial Fellowship at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly) where she realized a curatorial research project on the institution's archive. From 2022 to 2023, she served as the Artistic Director of Galerie Bernau.
Supervisors: Prof. Peter Geimer
Address: Berlin, Germany
Marie Egger earned a combined B.A. in Cultural History and Theory, and Art and Visual History from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, completing her thesis on the motives of modern flânerie. Subsequently, she earned an M.A. in Arts and Media Administration at Freie Universität Berlin with a spatial-theoretical analysis of the rise of contemporary art biennials since the 1990s. Additionally, she completed an M.A. in Art History in a Global Context with a work monograph on a photographic mail art object from the GDR.
Between 2019 to 2022, she worked as a student assistant at the Cluster of Excellence “Matters of Activity” and at the Research Centre “The Technical Image”. From 2023 to 2024, Marie Egger has held the position of Research Associate at University Potsdam. Her academic pursuits have been supported by grants from the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, Erhard Höpfner Foundation, Humboldt University in Berlin, and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Furthermore Marie Egger has held various curatorial positions, for example on the teams of the Marrakech Biennale in Morocco (2012), the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, Colorado (2013), the Moscow Biennial in Russia (2015); and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna (2014–2015). In 2016, she received a Curatorial Fellowship at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly) where she realized a curatorial research project on the institution's archive. From 2022 to 2023, she served as the Artistic Director of Galerie Bernau.
Supervisors: Prof. Peter Geimer
Address: Berlin, Germany
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