Friederike Sigler, Professorship for Contemporary Art

Contact Friederike Sigler

"In my research, I deal with interactions between contemporary art and society. My perspective is that art is always created and works in a specific context and should therefore also be examined in this context. In a recently completed research and exhibition project on care work, for example, I showed how important it is to include the globally differing meaning of work in the analysis and reception of art about care work. In my current projects on the reception of fascism and the (New) Right, on the other hand, the focus is on the question of how art can actively shape societies, including authoritarian, right-wing and fascist ones." (Friederike Sigler)

Research areas:

* (Care) work in contemporary art
* Materiality and production
* Reception of fascism in art, art history and exhibitions since 1970
* Art and (New) Rights (together with Dr. Kathrin Rottmann, Ruhr University Bochum)

Curriculum Vitae:

2005-2010 Studies with a focus on art history, Philipps University Marburg, FU Berlin
2012-2014 Scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group 'Materiality and Production', Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
2014-2020 Research assistant, Dresden University of Fine Arts
2020-2025 Research assistant, Institute of Art History, Ruhr University Bochum
2021-2024 Deputy project manager in the DFG project 'Putz, Kochen, Sorgen. Care Work in Art in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA and Latin America since 1960' (together with Prof. Dr. Änne Söll and Tonia Andresen M.A., Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
since 2025 Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Vienna