Sarah Johanna Theurer is a curator focusing on time-based art practices and techno-social entanglements. Her work at Haus der Kunst München ranges from new commissions of emerging artists, live events and symposia to historical surveys and retrospectives. She has collaborated with and addressed artists from various geographical and cultural backgrounds.

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Ongoing and recent projects

Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München
Echoes. Plot Twist, a live exhibition at Haus der Kunst München on human and non-human languages with Anansi’s Web (Curtly Thomas & Nelta Kasparian), Hanne Lippard & Laurel Halo, Invernomuto, Layton Lachman, Lucy Liyou, Pavel Milyakov & Martyna Basta, Pussy Riot, Rully Shabara, Sarah Friend
Pan Daijing: Mute, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München, with performers: Kelvin Kilonzo, Leah Katz, Camilla Brogaard, Chihiro Araki, Amie Jammeh, Wai Lok Chan, Cary Shiu

Publications

Shu Lea Cheang. KI$$ KI$$, monograph, published by Mousse. Design: Guillaume Chuard
Pan Daijing, monograph with contributions by Emma Enderby, Donatien Grau, Mark Harwood, Andrea Lissoni, Raimundas Malašauskas, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese, Xue Tan, published by Spector Books. Design: Florian Lamm
Fujiko Nakaya, monograph with contributions by Bernard Blistene, Anne Carson, Anne-Marie Duguet, Frances Dyson, Andrea Lissoni, Isabella Maidment, Julie Martin, Fujiko Nakaya, Stephen OMalley, Philippe Rahm, Sarah Johanna Theurer, Catherine Wood, published by Hatje Cantz. Design: Katharina Köhler

Recent Writing

Pan Daijing, short essay in Cura Magazine
Double Fire, essay in “what looks good today may not look good tomorrow. The Legacy of Michel Majerus,” edited by Bettina Steinbrügge
Androgin, essay in “Katalin Ladik: Ooooooooo-pus,” exhibition catalog edited by Hendrik Folkerts

Recent Talks, Interviews, Conversations

Artist Talk with Guan Xiao, Kunsthalle Wien
Artist Talk with Tomoko Sauvage, Reethaus Berlin
Mentor at OHT Nomadic School 2025
Echoes. Curating Beyond the Exhibition, talk at Musikinstallationen Nürnberg / Universität der Künste Nürnberg
Echoes. Curating Beyond the Exhibition, talk at Universidad de Tela Buenos Aires
Artist talk with Jim C. Nedd, Stage Bregenz
A Little Bit Sacred, interview with Tuanzhou Chen
Body Loss, interview with Angela Goh, in: “I 愛 AI”

Archive

2024

Modes of Mind, interview with Nile Koetting
The air is thick with anticipation, conversation with Alice Bucknell, Cura Magazine

2023

Unchained, KI, Krypto & Kunst, panel
WangShui: Window of Tolerance, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München
Echoes, a live exhibition on embodied intelligences, with: DEBIT, Sarah Friend, Luis Garay & Slim Soledad, Angela Goh, Lyra Pramuk, Tiara Roxanne, Kíani del Valle & Hamill Industries. Haus der Kunst München
Whistlers, Special Project at Liste Art Fair Basel, with: Geocinema (Solveig Qu Suess & Asia Bazdyrieva), Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst, Invernomuto, Davi Pontes & Wallace Ferreira, Tomoko Sauvage
Katalin Ladik: Ooooooooo-pus, exhibition co-curated with Hendrik Folkerts at Haus der Kunst München
Regular reviews of exhibitions at Tagesspiegel Newspaper
On Radical Hope by Sven van Looveren, short essay for Volksbühne München
On Alexander Iezzi, contribution for KubaParis
The Electric Guitar between New Music and Pop, panel with Ann Cleare, Catherine Lorent, Kirsten Reese, Maya Shenfeld, Tine Surel Lange, at Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin
Interview with Marie-Therese Bruglacher, Positionen Magazin
Interview with Carsten Seiffarth, Positionen Magazin
When it's Time to Sing, Interview with Liina Magnea, PW Magazine

2022

What looks good today may not look good tomorrow, lecture at MUDAM Luxemburg
Jenna Sutela: HMO Nutrix, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München
Carsten Nicolai: Transmitter / Receiver, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München
Fujiko Nakaya: Nebel Leben, exhibition at Haus der Kunst München
Echoes, a live exhibition on embodied memories at Haus der Kunst München, with Abdullah Miniawy, Ain Bailey, caner teker, Christelle Oyiri, Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), Lafawndah & Friends, Lamin Fofana, Onyeka Igwe, Tarek Lakhrissi
Radical Friends: Online DAO Summit for Decentralisation of Power and Resources in the Artworld, Haus der Kunst München
Nurturæl, performance and exhibition in collaboration with The Agency
Daphne Oram: Magnetism + Optimism, short essay, Terraforma Journal
Between Words and Worlds, on Himali Singh Soin, Cura Magazine
Healing Mechanics: On Joseph Beuys, short essay, Terraforma Journal
Michel Majerus: Stimulus Vortex, essay, Kaleidoscope Magazine
Deep Within and Deep Without, conversation with Jenna Sutela and Sissel Tolaas, Schering Stiftung Berlin
Big Talk is Talking about the Weather, A conversation on the work of Fujiko Nakaya with Stuart Comer, Michelle Kuo, Astrida Neimanis
DIY Technopolitics, with Jan Berger, Felix Kraus and Penny Rafferty
Fujiko Nakaya. Multiverse, a symposium including an artist talk with Jenna Sutela and the panel Media Ecologies with Prof. Dr. Dieter Daniels, Prof. Dr. Mi You, Ariana Dongus, Dr. Anne-Marie Duguet

2021

Portals, on Cashmere Radio, Berlin
Passages, with Astrit Isamaili, Candice Nembhard, OMSK Social Club & Alexander Iezzi, Lensbased Class, Isabel Lewis. Radio exhibition on Cashmere Radio, Berlin
Tricksters: Robert Breer, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Rhea Fowler, Micaela Tobin, exhibition for “Curated By” at Gianni Manhattan, Vienna
School of Swans: Isabel Lewis with Dirk Bell, live at Haus der Kunst München
Otherkin: A Social Software, performance and radio broadcast in collaboration with OMSK Social Club and Alexander Iezzi, CTM Radio Lab 2021, Berlin

2020

Impact20, a conversation with Lars Blank, Rosi Braidotti, Johannes Paul Raether, PACT Zollverein
Transformella (JP Raether): Cinis’ Forking [4.4.6.10.1], exhibition at K-TZ, Berlin
Klára Hosnedlová: Nest, exhibition at K-TZ, Berlin
Conversation with Christelle Oyiri, Contemporary&
Confronting our Gaze, interview with Tarek Lakhrissi, PW Magazine
Decentralized Strategies for Art and Activism, panel with Olexii Kuchanskyi, Penny Rafferty, Mario Schruff, Dzina Zhuk and Nicolay Spesivtsev (eeefff)
The weather is dry, and so are things, conversation with Guan Xiao, Cura Magazine

© Sarah Johanna Theurer 2025