Marie Sophie Beckmann / Goethe-Institut Fellowship 2017
- Setting up, La Permanence, Villa Vassilieff, 2017. Image: Villa Vassilieff.
The Goethe-Institut and Villa Vassilieff created together in 2016 a research residency program for German curators. Every year, a curator is invited to develop a research project at Villa Vassilieff, in partnership with a German institution and has the possibility to dialogue with several international institutions (museums, archives, schools, civilians). This grant is attributed in parallel to the Focus programs, organized each year by the Goethe-Institut in a German city or a Land.
For its second edition, the grant is attributed to Marie Sophie Beckmann, curator who recently graduated from MA Curatorial Studies, Goethe University/ Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste – Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main.
BIOGRAPHY OF MARIE SOPHIE BECKMANN
Marie Sophie Beckmann (born in 1989 in Bremen, Germany) lives and works as a writer and curator in Berlin. She received her MA in Curatorial Studies at the Goethe-Universität and Staatliche Hochschule für bildende Künste – Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main in 2016 with a thesis on the Cinema of Transgression. In 2015, she co-founded the curatorial initiative EVBG which focuses on contemporary film, video art and feminist art practices. Marie Sophie Beckman is a PhD candidate in the post graduate program Konfigurationen des Films (Configurations of Film) at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt/Main.
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