Sophie Schasiepen

Sophie Schasiepen studied Fine Arts, Cultural Studies and Historical Studies at the Braunschweig University of Art, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. Her research focusses on critical museology, the history of science, and colonial history. She has worked for various research projects, including Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom at Secession Vienna (2014–2015, funded by the Austrian Science Fund) and Remaking Society, Remaking Persons Supranational Forum (2019–2021, funded by the Andrew Mellon-Foundation), Action for Restitution to Africa (2021–2024, funded by Open Society Foundations) and Reconnecting „Objects“: Epistemic plurality and transformative practices in and beyond museums (2022–2025, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation) at the University of the Western Cape. Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation (OeAD) awarded her the Marietta Blau-Grant (2015–2016) and she held a Junior Fellowship at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) in Vienna (2016–2018). Since 2019 she has been a member of the editorial board of Bildpunkt, magazine of the Austrian Artists Union (IG Bildende Kunst Österreich).

+43 153410 – 924

sophie.schasiepen@hdgoe.at

Peer-reviewed

2023 “Austria’s post-colonial present: Missing memorialization of colonial violence,” History and Anthropology (2023): 1–21.

2019 „Die ‚Lehrmittelsammlung’ von Dr. Rudolf Pöch an der Universität Wien.

Anthropologie, Forensik und Provenienz“, Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften, 1/2019, 15–27. 

Book chapters

2015 „Out of the Salon: Female counterspaces, anticolonial struggles and transversal

politics“, in: Ines Doujak und Oliver Ressler (Hrsg.): Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom, London: Pluto Press, 44–51.

Lexicon entries

2021 ‚Rudolf Pöch’, in Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon, second revised edition online, edited by the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Other media

Podcast Mourning the Dead: Connecting histories of people, places, and remains / Porter le deuil des morts. Relier les histoires des lieux, des personnes et de leurs vestiges (concept, editor, executive production and author of the introduction of the multilingual podcast, produced in the framework of Reconnecting „Objects“: Epistemic plurality and transformative practices in and beyond museums ). 

Essays, reviews and journalistic texts for MALMOE, Bildpunkt, Wespennest, an.schläge, INDABA, Kronos, progress online, Mute, H-Soz-Kult, boasblogs.

Branching Streams – Sketches of Kinship, collaborative research exhibition, Musée Théodore Monod d'art africain, Dakar, Senegal, 18 May – 15 September 2024.

2023

Seminar „Museumsarbeit in einer mehr als menschlichen Welt“ at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (BA). 

Invited lectures for seminars at the University of Vienna (History of Science, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Heritage Studies), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, University of Art and Design Linz, University of the Western Cape, University of Namibia, Sol Plaatje University.