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Astrid Schmetterling

Art Historian and author

Astrid Schmetterling

After working in the museums and gallery sector (Israel Museum, Riverside Gallery, London and Bath Festival Exhibition) and as a free-lance art critic (Art Monthly, Performance, Women’s Art Magazine and others), I was Senior Lecturer in the Visual Cultures Department of Goldsmiths, University of London until 2026. I am now a free-lance author and lecturer and am also co-chair of the Memory & Arts Working Group of the Memory Studies Association (MSA). My research focuses on the relation between history, culture and memory, between the act of bearing witness and the act of making art. In this context, I am interested in contemporary international arts practices, as well as in early twentieth-century German culture. My writing is informed by the insights of diaspora, postcolonial and transcultural studies.

 

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