Sophie Eisenried

Sophie Eisenried (she/her) is an art historian, curator and author. She is interested in intersectional art theories and institutional critique/s, feminist movements, global protest and strike history/s and related artistic-activist practices as well as theories of spatial appropriation. She is currently writing a doctoral thesis on Queering the Post-Industrial Space. Artistic counter-publics (in) the periphery.

As a freelance curator, she has realized numerous institutional and independent projects. For example, she was involved as curatorial assistant in the exhibition Rebecca Horn at Haus der Kunst in Munich. Since January 2025, she has been responsible for the program of the Habibi Kiosk at the Münchner Kammerspiele as curator/dramaturge together with Gina Penzkofer.

As an art scholar, she currently works as a research assistant for Art Cooperation and Communication at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect at LMU Munich. She has worked at the Institute of Art History at the LMU Munich, at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Université de Strasbourg, at the Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies at the University of Heidelberg, and at the Bauhaus University Weimar. In addition to academic texts, she publishes in journals and exhibition catalogs.