Sigler, Friederike

"My research focuses on the interactions between contemporary art and society. I believe that art always emerges and has an impact within a specific context and should therefore be examined in relation to this context. In a recently completed research and exhibition project on care work, for example, I showed how important it is to consider the globally varying meanings of work when analyzing and receiving 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 how art can actively shape societies, including authoritarian, right-wing, and fascist ones."

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

• 2005-2010 Studied art history at Philipps University of Marburg and Freie Universität Berlin
• 2012-2014 Scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group ‘Materiality and Production’ at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
• 2014-2020 Research assistant, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts
• 2020-2025 Research assistant, Art History Institute, Ruhr University Bochum
• 2021-2024 Deputy project manager in the DFG project 'Cleaning, Cooking, Caring. 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 University Bochum)
• since 2025 Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Vienna