Marie Egger
Marie Egger is a graduate student of Art History in a Global Context with a focus on Europe and America at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research interests include global 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 with a thesis on motives of modern flânerie.
Subsequently, she completed an M.A. degree in Arts and Media Administration at Freie Universität Berlin with a spatial-theoretical analysis of contemporary art biennials.
Marie Egger was a member of the curatorial teams of Marrakech Biennale in Morocco, Biennial of the Americas in Denver, Colorado and Moscow Biennial in Russia; and of Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna. In 2016, she received a fellowship at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam, where she conducted an artistic research project of the institutional archive.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Marie Egger: Camp Solong. On the Relation of Game Theory and Performance Art, in: Senza Cornice. Rivista online di arte contemporanea e critica, Firenze 2018.
Defne Ayas/Bart de Baere/Marie Egger/Nicolaus Schafhausen (Eds.): How to Gather? Acting Relations, Mapping Positions, Witte de With Publishers, Rotterdam 2017.
Marie Egger: Connecting (Metaphorical) Spaces. A Thought Experiment on Spatial Theory and the Role of Biennials as Power-Political Relays, in: Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics, Oslo 2013.
Marie Egger: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe und Imi Knoebel. Raum in der Neuen Nationalgalerie, in: Anwesenheitsnotiz. Studentische Zeitschrift für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, Nr. 0, Berlin 2010.