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Editorial Team



Lucy Braemer
Lucy Braemer is currently studying Art and Visual History and European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focus lies in contemporary art, particularly in performance art, and posthuman perspectives in art and culture. Having previously completed a bachelor’s degree in pharmaceutical sciences she also has a keen interest in the intersections between art and science.

Annalisa Giacinti
Annalisa Giacinti is a writer and editor. She currently completes her MA in English Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, with a thesis that explores the intersection between contemporary adaptation studies and queer theory. She has interned at Berlin Art Link and trained at frieze magazine. She now writes texts on contemporary art and culture for artists and publications and is part of the voluntary editorial team of Berlin street journal Arts of the Working Class.

Josefin Granetoft
Josefin Granetoft is an art historian specializing in contemporary and time-based art. She earned her M.A. from the Free University of Berlin with a thesis on the 1970s and '80s experimental film works of Margaret Raspé. In 2022, she launched the curatorial project paratext, which focuses on process-based and collaborative practices. She currently works as a research and curatorial assistant and is one of the co-founders of re:visions.



Frederieke Henk
Frederieke Henk is currently studying Art History, minoring in History and Greek Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. She is particularly interested in film and photography of the 20th and 21st century, as well as the Impressionist period. Her focus lies in exploring the intersections of visual storytelling and queer-feminist perspectives in film and art historical analysis across different periods.

Noemy Yvonne Macari
Noemy Yvonne Macari is currently studying Art History and Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. Her current research focuses on afterlife imagery from the early modern period, but she also has a keen interest in contemporary art, particularly in how memory and identity are explored through various media. Alongside her studies, Noemy works as a student assistant at the Department of Early Modern Art at FU Berlin.

Luise Mörke
Luise Mörke is a writer and researcher whose work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms and global capitalism. She frequently writes art and cultural criticism for German and Anglophone publications and completed an MA in art and visual history at Humboldt-Universität before joining  Harvard’s Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies as a PhD student.


Mariia Ostapkevich
Mariia Ostapkevich received a BA in Film, Television, and Digital Production from Royal Holloway, University of London. In the following years, she worked as an art gallery assistant in Japan and Russia. Currently, she is a communications manager at an international design agency and is completing her master's degree in Art History in a Global Context at Freie Universität Berlin.

Kat Ripea
Kat Ripea is an art historian and writer specializing in contemporary art and
culture. Grounded in Neo-Marxist tradition and queer sensibilities, their work is particularly interested in radical potentialities. Previous curation for Kleine Humboldt Galerie, writing and editing for K. Verlag, PASSE-AVANT, FLORETS Magazine. Kat is currently completing a Bachelor's degree in Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin after previous studies in linguistics, literature, and anthropology.

Johanna Siegler
Johanna Siegler is completing her BA in Art and Visual History with a double minor in Cultural Theory and Philosophy at HU Berlin and Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. She has previously interned at TEXTE ZUR KUNST and currently works as poetry editor for kennich magazine and as an editorial assistant at the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, ZfL Berlin. Her academic interests include conceptual history, theories of the index, and the stylistic strategies of art criticism.




Pauline Barnhusen
Pauline Barnhusen works as a freelance writer and sometimes as a stylist. Her work has been published in taz and BLAU International. Currently she is completing her bachelors degree in art history at Humboldt University. In the past she has interned at KINDL – Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst and Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin. Her interests are surrealist art and literature, as well as feminist art history, specifically focused on the themes of labor and reproductive work.

Janna Erdmann
Janna Erdmann is an art educator currently finishing her master’s degree at Freie Universität Berlin. After a BA in art history and pedagogics, she worked at the museum FLUXUS+ in Potsdam, as an art educator and student assistant. At the moment she is part of the research project ‘dimensions of techne in the arts’ at the Technische Universität Berlin. Her interests apart from the mediation of arthistory and museum education are German Avantgarde, applied arts and DDR photography.

Devin Gökdemir
Devin Gökdemir received a BA in Art History and Comparative Literature at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn and is currently finishing his MA in Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Interested in literature, art, history and languages from the early modern period to this day, he is still looking for a way to link his different interests. He is working as a student assistant at the 4A_Lab: Art Histories,
Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics.

Carolin Greifenstein
Carolin Greifenstein studied Art and Visual History as well as Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. She is currently completing her master's degree in Art History in a Global Context at Freie Universität Berlin. Her interests center around feminist art history, posthumanism, and the importance of art for community and identity formation. She works as a freelance copywriter for artists and exhibition projects and was an assistant curator at SOMA Art Space Berlin.

Malin Krahn
Malin Krahn is currently completing her bachelor’s degree in art history and social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin. She has also studied at Trinity College Dublin. Her main interests lie within modern and contemporary art as well as queer feminist perspectives on art history and theory. She has worked at Berlinische Galerie and previously interned at Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt as well as the Berlin auction house Leo Spiek.

Justine Ney
Justine Ney studies Art History and Political Science at Freie Universität Berlin. Alongside her studies, she is the student assistant in the research project „Climate Summit Art. Art and Political Event, 1972 – 2022“. She is interested in theoretical discourses and different artistic media, with a special focus on photography as well as critical and feminist approaches to art and art history.

Swantje Pieper

Swantje Pieper is currently completing a master's degree in art history at Freie Universität Berlin, following a bachelor's degree in art history and social and cultural anthropology. Her focus is on the interferences of literature, especially philosophy and poetry, with modern and contemporary art. In addition to her studies, she works for the Berlin auction house Bassenge and the gallery space Council+.


 
Tobias Rosen
Tobias Rosen is an art historian and critic focusing on international artistic exchanges and networks between Germany and Africa in the second half of the 20th century. After receiving a BA and an MA in art history from UC Berkeley and Freie Universität respectively, he is now a PhD student at Princeton’s Department of Art and Archaeology.


Stefanie Unternährer Stefanie Unternährer is an art historian specializing in photography. She completes her MA at Freie Universität Berlin and is a managing editor of re:visions. She curated Wüstenrot Foundation’s Dokumentarfotografie Förderpreise 11, held the position of assistant curator at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, and was a cultural assistant at the French Embassy in Berlin. She published her work in the arts magazine BLAU International, Die WELT, as well as in exhibition catalogues for Museum Folkwang, the Wüstenrot Stiftung, and the Pinault Collection.



Former Members
Laila Borlak

Imke Gerhardt

Franciska JC Schmitt
Ananda Siml
Sabrina Blembel
Corey Ratch
Frederik Luszeit
Johanna Engemann
Victoria Hilsberg
Julia Grüßing
Yuanwen Zhong
Laura Seidel
Pauline Schirmer
Congle Fu
Hattie Graham 



Journal der Freien Universität Berlin

Berlin, 2024