Babette Werner

Babette Werner is an art historian with a focus on interdisciplinary approaches dealing with time, space and transformation.

Werner is based at the Institute of Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, holding a full scholarship by Gerda Henkel Stiftung. She works as a curator and writer and has developed and implemented interdisciplinary exhibitions and publication projects in the field of visual and performing arts for international art institutions including Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Munich's Pinakothek der Moderne, and Nationalgalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Museum Berggruen, Alte Nationalgalerie).

In her thesis (supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Blümle, Institute of Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Prof. Dr. Stefan Neuner, University of the Arts Berlin) she researches on the analog and digital (re-)stagings of process-based and inter-media art from the late 1950s until today and their potential for sustainable archival and curatorial practices. At the intersection of art, ecology and technology, the focus is put on artist Otto Piene who experimented with natural phenomena, light and slide installations. Furthermore, she researches on aesthetic links between visual interpretations of natural phenomena and social dicourses in art and design and seeks to contribute to a genealogy of an ecological aesthetic.