Hannah Katalin Grimmer is a PhD candidate and works as a research associate at the department of ‘Art and Society’, University of Kassel/documenta-Institut. She holds two B.A. degrees from University Leipzig in Cultural Science and Romance Studies. She received her M.A. degree in Curatorial Studies from Goethe University and Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main after completing her thesis on contemporary artistic representation of detenidos desaparecidos (detained disappeared) of the Chilean and Argentine civil-military dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s. Meanwhile she worked at various museums, galleries, and art collections. She is a freelance art mediator and curator, has published texts in artists’ books and magazines and was a curatorial fellow at the Gropius Bau (Berlin).
In addition to her interests in curatorial questions as well as decolonial theories from Latin America, she is focusing on the link between artistic practices and alternative memory narratives in social movements for her PhD thesis “Art in Resistance – Memories in Protest: Visual Arts within Social Movements and Feminisms in the Southern Cone” (working title).
Email: hannah.grimmer@uni-kassel.de