Friederike Schäfer is an art historian and curator working as a postdoc researcher in the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Freie Universität Berlin since 2021. From 2017 to 2021, she was an academic associate in the Media Arts department at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG). As part of the Cluster of Excellence “Bild Wissen Gestaltung. Ein interdisziplinäres Labor” (Image Knowledge Gestaltung. An Interdisciplinary Laboratory”) at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she pursued her doctoral thesis “An Anarchitectural Body of Work. Suzanne Harris and the Downtown New York Artists’ Community in the 1970s” (forthcoming with De Gruyter). She received several fellowships for conducting research, such as at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montréal, the Bard Graduate Center, NYC, the CAA annual conference in LA, and the Terra Summer Residency, Giverny, France. In 2021, she was awarded a Terra Publication Grant to publish her doctoral thesis with De Gruyter. Schäfer has worked on international exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13), the KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, and the archive project “re.act.feminism 2—a performing archive.” She has also carried out collaborative research and exhibition projects, for instance at the nGbK Berlin; Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg; Badischer Kunstverein; and Kunsthalle Mannheim.