Tina Plokarz, M.A.
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin 4A_Lab
Tina Plokarz is Project Collaborator in the research and fellowship program 4A Lab: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz).
She is curator of contemporary art, public art consultant and art historian, interested in creating interactive art experiences that challenge the understanding of identity and participation and that explore the relationship between humans and their environments. Previously, she was curator at the Schuylkill Center (Philadelphia), Philadelphia Contemporary (Philadelphia) and Villa Merkel (Esslingen). She held positions at the KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Berlin), and recently supervised the tri-state art initiative Lenapehoking~Watershed. She has presented new projects by artists Maria Dumlao, Jean Shin, Aaron Terry, Sarah Kavage, JAK, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Ana Vizcarra Rankin, Emma Sulkowicz, Jordan Griska, and Hamish Fulton, and contributed essays to publications, such as Al Mudhif – A Confluence (forthcoming) and Hamish Fulton – Walking Transformation (2015). She graduated in Art History and Theater Studies from Freie Universität Berlin.