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Doreen Mende

Doreen Mende is a curator, writer, and public scholar. Since 2021, she is director of the Research Department at Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden where she initiated the Stannaki Forum. Art and Research in Conversation. She is currently also a non-residential affiliated researcher with the Research Center of Digital Humanities and Multilateralism at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Between 2015 and 2025, she has been professor of curatorial politics at the Department of Fine Arts at HEAD Genève in Switzerland, responsible for the CCC Master and PhD-Forum till 2021. She is a founding member of the Harun Farocki Institut.

Her most recent exhibitions include Candida Höfer: Contexts. A Dresden Reflection (Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, 2024); The Missed Seminar with Steven McQueen, Eslanda Robesonand Aarti Sunder (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and the Albertinum, Dresden, 2022-23). In 2019, the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded her with a grant to realise Decolonizing Socialism Entangled Internationalism in collaboration with blaxTARLINES Kumasi, Oralities Research Lab in Jaipur, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, the Van Abbemuseum, and Spector Books. Publications, numerous scholarly and essayistic articles published by e-flux Journal, Sternberg Press, MIT Press, Mousse Publications, The Oxford Handbook for Communist Visual Cultures, Jerusalem Quarterly, a.o. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London.

During her residency with Temporary Susch, Mende will work on her monograph In Transit. Geopolitics of Exhibiting.