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Hannah K. Grimmer
Hannah K. Grimmer is a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. She holds two BA degrees from University of Leipzig in cultural studies and romance studies. She received her MA degree in curatorial studies from Goethe University and Städelschule, Frankfurt/Main after completing her thesis on contemporary artistic representation of the detenidos desaparecidos (‘disappeared detainees’) in Chile and Argentina. She has worked as a curatorial fellow at Gropius Bau Berlin and as a research associate and lecturer at the University of Kassel/documenta-Institute. She is co-editor (with Cynthia Shuffer) and translator of the book Operación Silence (2023). Her research explores the relationship between contemporary art, social movements, memory studies and curatorial studies, with a particular focus on artistic practices and memory narratives in social movements in Chile.