Biography
Siri Peyer is an art scholar. Since 2015, she has been a research associate in the research group Art, Design & Public Spheres at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. She works at the intersection of art history, cultural studies and artistic research and researches and publishes on socially and politically engaged art, performance art, artistic research and the art field. In 2023, she completed her dissertation «Mehrdeutigkeiten: Repräsentation, Ökonomien, Partizipation. Renzo Martens’ Institute of Human Activities in der DR Kongo» at the HafenCity University in Hamburg. In it, she sets out what an art critique looks like that determines its coordinates from «the art» and what potential lies therein for the interpretation of controversial artistic positions. The book will be published in 2024.
Previously, she completed the specialised Master's programme in Art Research at the University of Bern (2015), a Master of Advanced Studies in Curating (2008) and a photography degree at the Zurich University of the Arts (2004). Shed has worked as a curator at various institutions and curated and co-curated several exhibitions and projects as a freelance curator, including the exhibition series «ReCoCo - Life Under Representational Regimes» at White Space Zurich (2011), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (2011) and MoBY Museums of Bat Yam, Israel (2013) together with Joshua Simon. From 2008 to 2011 she was an assistant at the Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts (ICS) at the Zurich University of the Arts in the MAS Curating programme, where she was also jointly responsible for the exhibition space White Space and the online magazine www.on-curating.org.
