Nora Sternfeld

is a founding member of trafo.K, and an art educator, curator and theorist. She is professor for the Curating and Mediating Art Program at the Aalto University in Helsinki and publishes on contemporary art, exhibition theory, education, politics of history and anti-racism.

She has been a visiting lecturer at the Wiener Kunstschule and the Art University, Kassel, Art University Zurich, Academy of Fine Arts as well as at the University of Teacher Education?both in Vienna?and is part of the management team of ecm – educating/curating/managing. postgraduate master program in exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is also part of the core team of schnittpunkt. exhibition theory & praxis. She is also on the editorial board of Bildpunkt — magazine of the Viennese artist association IG Bildende Kunst.

Her curatorial projects have included Taking Time (2013, Gallery Augusta, Suomenlinna, Helsinki w/ Teemu Mäki); Widersprüche! Critical Agency and the Difference Within (2011, Open Space Wien); Nothing for us, everything for everyone. Strategic universalism and political drawings, IG Bildende Kunst 2007 (w/ Toledo i Dertschei); Let it be known! Counterhistories of the African diapora in Austria, Hauptbücherei am Gürtel, 2007 (w/ Araba Evelyn Johnston-Arthur); Summit Non Aligned Initiatives in Education Culture, Berlin 2007(w/ Kodwo Eshun, Susanne Lang, Nicolas Siepen, Irit Rogoff, Florian Schneider) and Hidden Histories - remapping Mozart, a project of the Vienna Mozart Year 2006 (w/ Ljubomir Bratic, Araba Johnston-Arthur, Lisl Ponger, Luisa Ziaja).