Karin Schlageter

Karin Schlageter is an independent curator and a board member at Association Française des Commissaires d’Exposition (C-E-A). She obtained a Master’s in Arts and Languages from École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in 2011, following which she completed a residency at Palais de Tokyo as part of the Le Pavillon Neuflize OBC programme. Until 2018, Schlageter sat on the editorial committee of the POLI – Politique de l’Image cultural studies review, while working as a curator with galleries and art centres in Paris and Berlin, including Centre d’Art Contemporain Chanot. She has collaborated with architect Sébastien Martinez Barat (resident at Villa Kujoyama in 2016) on various exhibition projects. In 2020 Schlageter was awarded the first curator residency at Cité Internationale des Arts and Cnap – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, prior to which she was interim director of Centre d’Art Contemporain Les Capucins, in Embrun.

Karin Schlageter’s curatorial research focused on how contemporary artists reinterpret characters from folklore and popular culture. Building on convergences of eastern and western perceptions, coupled with a more flexible understanding of the notion of “subject” in eastern philosophy, which is not limited to human beings, Schlageter considers how narratives and characters are transformed when they are revived and updated, especially through the prism of gender and sexuality. Leaving aside matters of authenticity and heritage, her research paid particular attention to artistic practices that are open about their reinterpretation of inherited or borrowed stories.