Jordan Troeller is an art historian, curator, and art writer focusing on modern and contemporary art. She has published widely on European and American art and photography from the early twentieth-century to the present. Her books include Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury, published with MIT Press in 2025, and Lucia Moholy: Exposures, which accompanied the exhibition that originated at the Kunsthalle Praha and traveled to the Fotostiftung Winterthur (Hatje Cantz, 2024). She holds the Volkswagen Foundation Junior Professorship of Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practice at Leuphana Universität in Lüneburg, Germany.

NEWS AND EVENTS

Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother (MIT Press, 2025) will be released on May 6 and is available for pre-order. Advanced copies will be on sale, starting in early April, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of Ruth Asawa: Retrospective.

Talks in 2024-2025 include: a contribution to the workshop Queer Avant-Garde at the Ruhr University in Bochum on December 4-5; a talk on figurations of Gaia with The Feminist Art Project at the College Art Association’s annual conference on February 14; a conversation at the Fotostiftung Schweiz in Winterthur with curator Teresa Gruber on March 22; a presentation of my research initiative The M/Other Project at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf on April 15; a lecture on Sophie Taeuber at the Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art (DFK) in Paris on June 26-27, as part of the conference “The Art of Organizing Work: Structures, Procedures, and Economies of Craft Workshops in the Early 20th Century”

On February 2, I spoke at the ARTE film premiere in Berlin of Sigrid Faltin’s new documentary Lucia Moholy: Die Bauhaus-Fotografin. The film, which features the exhibition I co-curated, will be broadcast on ARTE on April 6 at 4:20pm (CET) can be seen online at Arte’s Mediathek until July 4. It premiered in London at The Courtauld on March 7.

I received the 2023 Gender and Diversity Award from Leuphana University.