Sascia Bailer is Senior Researcher at the SNF-funded research project “The Co-Production Of  Forms And Discourses  In  Cultural Participation  Projects in  Swiss Visual  Arts Institutions” (2026–2029). The research project is hosted at the art and design school HEAD Genève, within the Master TRANSforme programme with the artistic collective microsillons. Her practice-based PhD at the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Reading examined the ambigous relationships between curating and care. Her dissertation has been published as a book with the transcript in 2024: “Caring Infrastructures. Transforming the Arts Through Feminist Curating” (available in print and open access). She is regularly invited to develop artistic/curatorial concepts for public programming, to give workshops and lectures, and to form part of panel discussions, podcasts, and moderated conversations (see Upcoming). She used to teach at ZDHK.

Sascia Bailer is the author of the monography “Caring Infrastructures. Transforming the Arts Through Feminist Curating” (transcript, 2024), the article “Care for Caregivers: Curating against the Care Crisis” (in: “Curating with Care“, ed. Elke Krasny and Lara Perry, Routledge, 2023) and of the publication “Curating, Care, and Corona” (Arthur Boskamp Press, 2020). She is the co-editor of the anthology „Letters to Joan“, in which critical thinkers and artists exchanged thoughts on care during the pandemic with care ethics scholar Joan Tronto (co-edited with Rosario Talevi and Gilly Karjevsky). She co-edited the artist publication WHAT WE COULD HAVE BECOME. Reflections on Queer-Feminist Filmmaking by Malu Blume (Onomatopee, 2021) and Re-Assembling Motherhood(s). On Radical Care and Collective Art as Feminist Practices by Maternal Fantasies (Onomatopee, 2021). For more details see texts.

She holds a PhD in “Practice in Curating” from the University of Reading and the Zurich University of the Arts, an MA in “Theories of Urban Practice” from Parsons School of Design and a BA in “Communication and Cultural Management” from Zeppelin University. Her scholarly and curatorial work has been supported by several grants and fellowships, including the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (SWW DTP), the German National Merit Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), the Provosts Scholarship from Parsons, the “Graduate Student Fellowship for Art and Social Justice” by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics in New York, and many more.