Lenke Rothman, Mot onda ögon, fetischer 1984.
REBECKA KATZ THOR is a writer. researcher, and associate professor at REMESO, Linköping University. She holds PhD (2018) in Aesthetics from Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research interests are cultural memory studies, processes of commemorations in monuments and museums and political, historical, and ethical claims in contemporary art.
She heads and partakes in research projects and teaches at the university, but she is also active in a broader cultural context where she works as editor, writer, and curator. She was commissioned to develop an initial vision for a permanent building for the Swedish Holocaust Museum and continues to work with the strategic vision and knowledge development of the museum. Together with Runo Lagomarisino she curates an exhibition with works by Lenke Rothman at Malmö Konsthall and she has previously been employed as Editor for the in-depth material - Research and Reflection at Public Art Agency Sweden.
She is co-chair of Memory Studies Association Nordic. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University during spring 2022 and has been a researcher in Art History at Stockholm University, in Aesthetics at Södertörn University and at Engaging Vulnerability, Uppsala University.
She has an MA from the New School for Social Research, New York and was a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht.
