Loudreaders Session 13


Franziska Stöhr


August 9, 2020
12:00pm EST




LOUDREADERS Session 13: Franziska Stöhr
August 9, 2020
12:00pm EST

Franziska Stöhr Loudreads Utopia as Method by Ruth Levitas and asks What if...? on the Utopian.

After completing her studies in Art History, Philosophy, and Curatorial Practicein Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, and Bern, Franziska Stöhr authored her PhD thesis endlos, the first comprehensive publication on the history of film and video loops in the interplay of technology, art, and exhibition history. She has been working as a curator and lecturer since. Franziska Stöhr has taught at the University of Television and Film Munich, the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, and the University of Freiburg. Exhibitions co-curated by her include Creating Realities. Encounters Between Art and Cinema at the Pinakothek der Moderne, Archaeology of the Future. Art and Games at the State Museum of Egyptian Art (both 2015 as part of Kino der Kunstin Munich), Pop Pictures People at the Museum Brandhorst (2017), Thrill of Deception. From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality at Kunsthalle München (2018), and Hermann Glöckner—A Master of Modernism at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München (2019). Franziska Stöhr furthermore curated the video art presentations Im Blick (2017), Inversed World (2019), Dance Images (2019), and this year’s interdisciplinary exhibition What If ...? On the Utopian in Art, Architecture, and Design (2020) at the Neues Museum Nürnberg. In July 2020 she took up her position as a curator at the Kunsthalle München.