Frederike Sperling | Artistic director Kunstraum Niederoesterreich

Frederike Sperling is the artistic director at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna. In this role, she has worked on new commissions, performative exhibitions, as well as live and discursive events with artists and collectives including OMSK Social Club, Seba Calfuqueo, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, P. Staff, and Sophie Utikal. In the past, she was the head of programming at the art association das weisse haus and a curator at Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). From 2013 to 2015, she was involved curating at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Melly Institute in Rotterdam. In addition to serving on juries and teaching at institutions such as the University of Art and Design Linz, she regularly contributes to international art magazines and artistic publications. She studied art history and curating at Goldsmiths, University of London, and the University of Amsterdam.

Her curatorial practice focuses on time-based media, addressing topics like corporeality and relationality from intersectional perspectives. In the context of her independent work, she has realized projects with Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S.), Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley, Jesse Darling, Raju Rage, Debby Friday, Caspar Heinemann, Evan Ifekoya, and Himali Singh Soin, among others.