Biography
Phila Bergmann works as a curator, researcher, lecturer, and social justice trainer. From 2020 to 2025 she was Co-Director of Shedhalle Zürich, where she developed the process-oriented curatorial concept “ProtoZones 2020–2025.”
At the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Phila teaches in the BA program Art & Art Education as well as in the Master of Fine Arts. She is a Diversity Officer at DFK, and is responsible for the compact course “Diversity-Sensitive Teaching” at the ZLLF. From 2019 to 2023, Phila contributed to the SNSF research project “Collecting the Ephemeral. studies the requirements for, and potential of, including performance art in collections.”
International teaching assignments, guest professorships, workshops, and lectures have taken Phila to institutions including the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies at the University of Giessen, the Summer Academy of Fine Arts Salzburg, HGB Leipzig, ZHdK, the Sandberg Academy Amsterdam, OnCurating Academy in Berlin, as well as documenta fifteen. Phila has presented artistic projects at numerous international institutions and festivals, including Berliner Festspiele – MaerzMusik, 3hd Festival Berlin, Sophiensaele Berlin, Hellerau – European Centre for the Arts, Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin, Nowy Teatr Warsaw and Zürcher Theater Spektakel.
Phila is currently pursuing a doctorate within the PhD in Practice in Curating at the University of Reading (UK) with the project ‘PROTOZONES’ as transferable concept for producing process-based exhibitions: A reflection on curatorial work at Shedhalle Zurich (2020–2025).
