Current: Program Curator for arts and culture / Goethe-Institut San Francisco

Digital Productions

Die nächsten 1700 Jahre: Queer Jewish Futures / founder + curator
@queerjewishfutures (2021 - ongoing)

Prideuntold / co-produced with Renée Adele Grothkopf
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, Hamburg, Germany (2020)

Pride Untold featured by the Arolsen Archives (2021)

Panels + Talks

Kunst im Kontext: Die Bedeutung der Erinnerungskultur im Bild / Lee Miller. Fotografin zwischen Krieg und Glamour / conversation
Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg (2023)

In conversation with Abby Stein / moderation
Jüdischer Salon am Grindel, Hamburg, Germany (2023)

Queer Jewish Futures? – Deutsche Erinnerungskultur trifft jüdischen Futurismus / talk
Bücheria Feministische und queere Stadtteilbibliothek, Hamburg, Germany (2023)

A Jew is a Jew is a Jew: Femme Reflections on Queer Jewish Futures and Utopic Possibilities / conversation
fluctoplasma festival for art, discourse and diversity
Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany (2022)

Komplizen für die Zukunft | Jüdische Zukunftsvisionen: Queer Jewish Futures / talk
Gedenk- und Bildungsstätte Israelitische Töchterschule, Hamburg, Germany (2022)

Jüdischsein im Dazwischen: Gespräch zur jüdischen Gegenwart in Deutschland / panel
ein Teil des Ausstellungsprogramms MEINEJUDEN / Kunstwerk von Miriam Cahn
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany (2022)

Queer Jewish Futures: Ein Gespräch über neue Möglichkeiten jüdischer Selbstbestimmung / conversation
Jüdischer Salon am Grindel, Hamburg, Germany (2022)

Take your finger off the pause button! — Queer Jewish Futures are here / talk
University Mainz, Germany (2022)

Kein Schlussstrich: WARUM WIR KÄMPFEN / panel
Living archives – Wissen, Gedenken & Denkmäler dekolonisieren
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (2021)

Queer Jewish Futures in conversation with Cleo Kempe Towers aka Emotional Labor Queen / conversation
Queer B-Cademy
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany (2021)

Pride Untold in conversation with Dr. Anna Hájková / conversation
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, Germany (2020)

Writing

(Da)zwischen uns(ere) Juden
Essay by Debora Antmann and Tamara Loewenstein
MEINE JUDEN | solo exhibition of works by Miriam Cahn / 14. Rubenspreises der Stadt Siegen
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen + DISTANZ Verlag

Jury

fluctoplasma festival for art, discourse and diversity / curatorial jury member (2023)

Film + Lecture Programming

Berlin: In(flux) / curator
a three-part film & lecture series exploring immigrant and refugee experiences in Berlin
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California (2017)

A Fire in My Belly by David Wojnarowicz / curator
film screening
Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, California (2011)

Traces by Armel Hostiou & Mauro Herce / curator
film screening with artist’s talk
Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, California (2009)

Teaching + Educational Programs

Deconstructing Holocaust Memorials: Towards a new understanding of memory culture / course instructor
Hamburger Volkshochschule, Hamburg, Germany (Spring 2022)

Postmemory and the Holocaust: Art of the Second and Third Generations / course instructor
Hamburger Volkshochschule, Hamburg, Germany (Winter 2020, Summer 2020, Spring 2021)

Holocaust Memorials in Hamburg and Beyond / course instructor
Hamburger Volkshochschule, Hamburg, Germany (Fall 2020, Winter 2021)

Postmemory & the Holocaust: A Workshop on Postmemory / workshop leader
Lowinsky’s, Hamburg, Germany (2020)

Das Berlin Project / project lead
San Francisco Art Institute in collaboration with Bauhaus University Weimar (2017)

Select Curatorial Projects

Children’s Worlds: New Perspectives on the History of Jewish School Life in Hamburg / contributor
Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, Germany (2019)

Bohemian Rhapsodies / assistant curator
San Francisco Art Institute in collaboration with the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California (2015)

Ten Years Later, A Public Projection Commemorating 9/11 / curator
Manresa Gallery at the University of San Francisco, California (2011)

We Were There: The Lesbian Response to the Early AIDS Epidemic Among Gay Men, International Queer Arts Festival / co-curated with Melonie Green
African American Art & Culture Complex, San Francisco, California (2010)

Cynsoure / curator
The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, California (2008)

Queerity / co-curated with Zee Boudreaux
Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco, California (2008)

Community Organizing + Activities

Gala Committee Member / GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, California (2014)

Museum Committee Member / GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, California (2013-2014)

Curator + Community Arts Organizer / Urban Share Community Gardening, San Francisco and Oakland (2009-2010)

Exhibitions Committee Member / GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, California (2009)

Education + Training

Guide Training Program
KZ-Gedenkstätte Neuengamme, Hamburg, Germany

MA, Curatorial Practice
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California

BA, Interdisciplinary Studies
New College of California, San Francisco, California

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Langauges: English, German