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) was released on May 6 and is available for purchase. A recent review was published on Hyperallergic.

Upcoming talks include a participatory workshop on March 20 with my collaborator, the artist Antje Engelmann on her project The Last Mother Earth Catalogue, as part of Frauenmärz in Berlin; and a lecture on May 21 at 6pm at the Universität Stuttgart, followed by a workshop the following day.

Forthcoming publications deal with strategies of “rematriation” in the context of the applied arts, focusing on a contemporary collective of Kuba female textile artists (organized by the research group Intervenierende Künste at the Freie Universität Berlin) and an article on Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s pedagogical texts.

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.