Tatjana Schaefer is a curator, writer and researcher on 20th-century postwar and
contemporary art, with an expertise in US-American feminist art. She’s currently at
The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, working towards a PhD on New York based
feminist painters in and around the Heresies Collective (1976-1993). Her project is
fully funded by The Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England
(CHASE). Prior to her doctoral research, Tatjana has held the position of assistant
curator at Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich for five years, where she co-curated
exhibitions and collection displays on John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys
and Astrid Klein, amongst others. In that role, she authored the publication Mary
Miss: Knots, that accompanied her acquisition of a conceptual work by Miss, which
expands and simultaneously counters the museum’s Minimal Art holdings, heavily
dominated by male artists. Tatjana is the recipient of various grants and fellowships
for her research, including the Getty Library Research Grant, the travelling Linking Art
Worlds Fellowship, co-funded by The Getty and the Terra Foundation for American
Art, and the UNIDEE residency: ‘Embedded Arts in a Post-pandemic Future’ at
Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella.
Her writing appears in exhibition catalogues, academic journals and edited volumes,
with her next article, exploring the transatlantic collaboration between Heresies and
the post-Soviet Russian collective IdiomA, scheduled for publication in 2027 by Brill.
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