Sascia Bailer

Dr Sascia Bailer (she/her) is a feminist researcher, writer, and curator working at the intersection of care, gender, and socially engaged art. In her doctoral dissertation, she investigated the ambivalent relationship between curating and care, and formulated propositions towards caring infrastructures within the arts. In 2019/2020 she initiated a participatory curatorial programme dealing with care as the Artistic Director of M.1 Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung in rural Northern Germany. Together with Didem Yazici, she curated the exhibition “Mothers*, Warriors, and Poets: Care as Resistance” (2023) at StadtPalais Stuttgart. She is the author of the article “Care for Caregivers: Curating against the Care Crisis” (inCurating with Care, Routledge, 2023) and of the booklet Curating, Care, and Corona (Verlag der Arthur Boskamp Stiftung, 2020). She co-edited the anthology Letters to Joan (2020, HKW) and the artist’s monograph.