Stephanie von Spreter
Job description
Stephanie von Spreter, Ph.d. i kunsthistorie, er forsker tilknyttet Institutt for språk og kultur (ISK), UiT Norges Arktiske Universitet i Tromsø hvor hun disputerte i desember 2024 (lenke til avhandlingen). Hun er medlem i forskningsgruppen Worlding Northern Art (WONA). For mer informasjon se: WONA.
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Publikasjoner utenom Cristin
Stephanie von Spreter & Ulla Schildt, ‘Flowers from Svalbard,’ i Arctic Art Newspaper,#1 (Tromsø: Troms og Finnmark fylkeskommune, 2022)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Who is BBB?,’ in Tonje Bøe Birkeland, Character #V Bertha Bolette Boyd, (Bergen: Bergen Kjøtt Publishing, 2021)
Stephanie von Spreter, 'Breathing Documenta11 In and Out,' Documenta11_platform6, (Kassel: documenta archiv | documenta und Museum Fridericianum GmbH, 2021), https://www.documenta-platform6.de/breathing-documenta11-in-and-out/
Stephanie von Spreter, 'The 'Artist Genius' Doesn't Have to Go Out and Buy Spaghetti. Shirana Shahbazi in Conversation with Stephanie von Spreter,' Conversations on Photography, (Oslo: Fotogalleriet / Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2021)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘For a gentle song would not shake us if we had never heard a loud one,’ in FOR A GENTLE SONG WOULD NOT SHAKE US IF WE HAD NEVER HEARD A LOUD ONE, ex.cat. (Copenhagen: Fotografisk Center, 2018)
Katinka Maraz, Espen Røyseland, Stephanie von Spreter, Ruben Steinum (eds.), Mulighetsrom. Kunsten og kunstnernes plass i byen (Oslo: 0047/Forbundet Frie Fotografer/Fotogalleriet/UKS, 2017). ISBN 9788292960073
Katarina Skjønsberg, and Stephanie von Spreter (eds.), Katarina Skjønsberg. Be Good to Yourself (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2017). ISBN 978-3-86828-775-2
Karina-Sirkku Kurz and Stephanie von Spreter (eds.), Karina-Sirkku Kurz. Ungleichgewicht (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2016). ISBN 978-3-86828-681-6
Anja Casser, and Stephanie von Spreter (eds.), Susanne M. Winterling, Through the Looking Glass (Milan: Mousse Publishing, 2015). ISBN-10 : 8867491172/ISBN-13 : 978-8867491179
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Verena Winkelmann. Father and Child,’ in Point in Time, ex.cat. (Berlin: The Nordic Embassies, 2015)
Stephanie von Spreter (ed.), Iikka Tolonen. Härkälä, (Heidelberg: Kehrer Verlag, 2015). ISBN 978-3-86828-550-5
Katinka Maraz, Espen Røyseland, Stephanie von Spreter, Ruben Steinum (eds.), Kreativt Naboskap. En mulighetsstudie, (Oslo: 0047/Forbundet Frie Fotografer/Fotogalleriet/UKS, 2014).
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘On Dayanita Singh’s Living “Museum Structures”,’ Débris Fanzine, No.1, 2014 (www.debrisfanzine.com/fotogalleriet)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Status fotografi’, in Contemporary by Blomqvist, auction catalogue, (Oslo: Blomqvist Kunsthandel, 2013)
Stephanie von Spreter and Nina Strand, ‘Two-Timers,’ in Objektiv. Magazine for lens-based art, #5, 2012
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Enquête: Petrine Lillevold Vinje,’ in Norsk Kunstårbok, (Oslo: Pax Forlag, 2012)
Stephanie von Spreter (ed.), Verksted #5/#6: A Travelogue: Gap Hanoi / A Travelogue: Transbord-Rájis Rádjái, (Oslo: Office for Contemporary Art Norway, 2006)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Means and Ends – Selected Video Work by Inghild Karlsen and Kristin Bergaust,’ in Farhad Kalantary and Linn Lervik (eds.), Retrospective: Film & Video Art Norway, (Oslo: Atopia film & videokunst, 2011). ISBN: 9788299838504
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Mette Tronvoll – At Eye Level,’ in Mette Tronvoll – Photographs Fotografien, (Munich: Schirmer/Mosel Verlag, 2009). ISBN 10: 382960436X / ISBN 13: 9783829604369
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Marc Camille Chaimowicz,’ in Short Guide - Day (Berlin: 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2008)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Ania Molska,’ in Short Guide - Day (Berlin: 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2008)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Giulia Piscitelli,’ in Short Guide - Day (Berlin: 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2008)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Pushwagner,’ in Short Guide - Day (Berlin: 5th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2008)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Mona Hatoum,’ in Into Me / Out of Me, ex.cat. (Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2007)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Carolee Schneemann,’ in Into Me / Out of Me, ex.cat. (Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2007)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Kris Martin,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2006)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Andro Wekua,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2006)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Sebastian Hammwöhner, Dani Jakob, Gabriel Vormstein,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2006)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’atelier d’architecture autogerée,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2004)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Banu Cennetoglu,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2004)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Liisa Roberts,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2004)
Stephanie von Spreter, ’Nada Sebestyen,’ in Exhibition Guide (Berlin: 3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2004)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Tania Bruguera,’ in Documenta11_Platform 5, Short Guide, (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, 2002)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Giuseppe Gabellone,’ in Documenta11_Platform 5, Short Guide, (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, 2002)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Julie Bergmann & Stacy Pierie Levy’, in Documenta11_Platform 5, Short Guide, (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, 2002)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Chohreh Feyzdjou, in Documenta11_Platform 5, Short Guide, (Kassel: documenta und Museum Fridericianum Veranstaltungs-GmbH, 2002)
Stephanie von Spreter, ‘Jacqueline Humphries,’ in I Love New York – Crossover der aktuellen Kunst, ex.cat., (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1999)
Research interests
Samtidskunst, fotografi, kvinnelige kunstnere, nordisk samtidskunst, Arktis, det sirkumpolare nord, storytelling, forskningsbasert kunst, antroposen, feministisk kunsthistorie, dekolonial kunsthistorie, monumenter, proveniensforskning
Teaching
KVI-3211 Arctic Images in Art, Visual Culture and the Museum, c. 1600-2020 (Artists’ agencies in the Arctic; Art, Politics and the Anthropocene)
KVI-1014 Visuell analyse (Fotografi, film, video og digitale medier)
KVI-1113 Fra Campus til Capitol: kunsthistorisk feltarbeid (Proveniensforskning; Periodisering)
KVI-3900 MA-Seminar (veiledning)
Member of research group
CV
Stephanie von Spreter er kunsthistoriker, kurator og kunstkonsulent. I desember 2024 forsvarte hun avhandlingen sin med tittelen Destructed Environments, Gendered Spaces and Colonial Legacies.
Contemporary Artistic Practices Sensing the Arctic and the Circumpolar North. Von Spreter er medlem av forskningsgruppen Worlding Northern Art, WONA (uit.no/research/wona) og det interdisiplinære forskningsprosjektet Urban Ecologies: City Sensing Beyond the Human initiert av Bull.Miletic (urbanecologies.no). Hun jobber med et pågående samarbeids- og forskningsprosjekt under tittelen Flowers from Svalbard med fotokunstneren Ulla Schildt.
Nylige seminar- og konferansedeltakelser inkluderer Alternative Cartographies, HDK-Valand, Göteborgs Universitet (2024); Vigelandseminaret 2023: Boundaries or no Boundaries – Sculpture in the Intersection between Nationalism and Internationalism, Oslo (2023); Relations and Beyond: Biennial Conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi (2023); Mediating the Arctic and the North. Contexts, Agents, Distribution (UiT / Humboldt Universitet, Berlin) og Ice (St)Ages. Icy Imaginaries in Science, Arts and Spectacles (Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald / Collaborative Research Centre, Universitet Freiburg / Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of the Australian National University, Canberra), begge i 2021. Publikasjoner inkluderer 'Sensing Polar Ice Bodies,’ i Communicating Ice through Popular Art and Aesthetics, Palgrave Studies in Media and Environmental Communication (Cham: Springer International, 2024); ‘Pia Arke and ‘Arctic Hysteria’: Visual Repatriation and the Problematics of a ‘Lost’ Artwork,’ Kunst og Kultur, 2022; Volume 2/3, 105 (publiseres september 2022); ‘Flowers from Svalbard,’ (i samarbeid med Ulla Schildt), i Arctic Art Newspaper,#1 (Tromsø: Troms og Finnmark fylkeskommune, 2022); ‘Feminist strategies for changing the story: re-imagining Arctic exploration narratives through (the staging of) photographs, travel writing and found objects,’ Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, 2021; Volume 13 (1). DOI: 10.1080/20004214.2021.1997462; ‘Who is BBB?,’ i Tonje Bøe Birkeland, Character #V Bertha Bolette Boyd, (Bergen: Bergen Kjøtt Publishing, 2021)
I perioden 2011-18 fungerte von Spreter som kunstnerisk leder på Fotogalleriet hvor hun har bl.a. vært ansvarlig for kuratering av en rekke utstillinger og seminarer med fokus på kamerabasert samtidskunst. I sin posisjon som kunstnerisk leder har hun også vært initiativtaker til en rekke nasjonale, Nordiske og internasjonale samarbeidsprosjekter og var ansvarlig for å etablere et fotobasert formidlingsprogram på Fotogalleriet. Hun er medgründer av Oslos første utstillingsguide for samtidskunst, Oslo Art Guide. Hun fungerte som prosjektleder for ulike store utstillinger og prosjekter, inkludert 3., 4. og 5. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. Hun organiserte det kulturelle programmet for et norsk statsbesøk i Vietnam i 2004 under ledelse av Ute Meta Bauer/Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). Hun var assisterende kurator på 50. Biennale di Venezia og kuratorassistent på Documenta11 i Kassel.