© Lucas MelzerDefne Kizilöz studied art history, economics, and archaeology in Halle (Saale) and in Leipzig. She was a curatorial volunteer at the Kunsthochschule Kassel’s Exhibition Hall for two years. From 2019 to 2021 she was research staff for numerous lecturers in art history at the University of Leipzig. There, together with Prof. Frank Zöllner, she curated the exhibition “Antipodes? The Newest Leipzig School” at the Mädler Art Forum in Leipzig, and was a member of various projects such as “Dig it? Digital Prototypes for the Museum: What remains?” at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst in Leipzig and in the “next;raum” at the Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts. In her master’s thesis she wrote about women artists in the twenty-first century who have worked to dissolve the boundaries of ascribed identity characteristics and the mechanisms of discriminating through language in the field of art.
Since October 2024 she has been a research associate and coordinator at the Exhibition Hall. She is currently researching in the area of “Diversity and Anti-discrimination” at the Kunsthochschule and working on her dissertation plans about the propaganda mechanisms in exhibitions during the Cold War. In addition she is part of the selection committee for Monitoring at the Kasseler Dokfest.
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