Anna-Sophie Springer

Anna-Sophie Springer is a freelance exhibition organizer and author. Since 2011 she runs the artistic publishing project K. in Berlin. Through a fluid approach to images, artifacts, and texts, she is dedicated to the emergence of new geographical, physical, and cognitive contexts - where archives and the book-as-exhibition play a central role and curatorial, publishing, and ethnographic practices are often interwoven. With philosopher and design theorist Dr. Etienne Turpin, she develops post-disciplinary perspectives on natural history collections as part of their joint project Reassembling the Natural, including the 2015 exhibition 125,660 Specimens of Natural History at the Komunitas Salihara Art Association, Jakarta, in collaboration with the Indonesian Institute of Science. Her more recent three-part exhibition series Vanishing Legacies: The World as Forest (2017/18) is funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Ernst Schering Foundation and realized in cooperation with the LIB. In cooperation with the House of World Cultures, Springer has been co-editor and publisher of the publication series intercalations: paginated exhibition since 2014. She is likewise co-editor of Fantasies of the Library (The MIT Press, 2016) and editor of a number of other publications published by K. Springer studied cultural, literary, and political studies in Berlin, Eichstätt, and Buenos Aires, and holds an M.A. in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London, and an M.A. in Cultures of the Curatorial, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. In 2014, she was Scholar-in-Residence at Rutgers University, New Jersey. In 2013 and 2016, she received a research fellowship from the Goethe-Institut to travel to Southeast Asia and Brazil, respectively. She is currently a visiting lecturer at the Institut Kunst, Basel, and is completing her PhD at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths.