Luisa E. Bauer studied Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Mainz and Universidad de Granada (B.A.) in Germany and Spain and Media Culture and Art Theories at the University of Art and Design Linz (M.A.) in Austria. After a research stay in Peru in 2022, she completed her studies in 2023 with a thesis on the museum history of Germany and Peru ("Museos de la Memoria: On the promotion of museums of memory culture by German institutions in Peru"). From 2016 to 2023 she received a study grant from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung. Since October 2023, she has been a research assistant in the Department of Art and Society at the University of Kassel and the documenta Institute. In the course of this, she is a member of traces - Transdisciplinary Research Center for Exhibition Studies.