Stefanie Hessler (b. 1987) is a German-born contemporary art curator, art writer and the current director of Swiss Institute in New York. Her work centers artists and ideas through new commissions, transdisciplinary collaborations, and experimental formats. At SI, Hessler co-curated Spora, which invites artists to transform the institution through “environmental institutional critique,” solo shows by Raven Chacon, Ali Cherri, and Lap-See Lam, as well as the East Village-wide exhibition Energies. Other recent exhibitions include Parcours, Art Basel; Sex Ecologies, Kunsthall Trondheim; the 17th Momenta Biennale, Montreal; Rising Tides, Gropius Bau, Berlin; Joan Jonas, Ocean Space, Venice; and the 6th Athens Biennale. Hessler is the author of Prospecting Ocean (MIT Press) and has edited over a dozen volumes. She was named among Apollo’s 40 under 40 and ArtReview’s Power 100.
