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Nina Möntmann

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Nina Möntmann is Professor of Art Theory at the University of Cologne, curator and writer as well as Principal Investigator at the Global South Study Center (GSSC) at the University of Cologne. Before she has been Professor of Art Theory and the History of Ideas at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and curator at NIFCA, the Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art in Helsinki.

Curated projects include Naeem Mohaiemen: Langer Tag, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, 2023; Måns Wrange: Magic Bureaucracy, Tensta konsthall in Stockholm 2017; Fluidity, Kunstverein in Hamburg 2016; Harun Farocki A New Product (Deichtorhallen Hamburg, 2012); If we can't get it together. Artists rethinking the (mal)functions of community (The Power Plant, Toronto, 2008); The Jerusalem Show: Jerusalem Syndrome (together with Jack Persekian), 2009, Parallel Economies in India, (Frankfurter Kunstverein, 2006) and the Armenian Pavillion for the 52nd Venice Biennial.

She participated in the long-term Israeli/Palestinian art and research project Liminal Spaces, and in 2010 was a research fellow at the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid. She organized a number of symposia, such as Beyond Cynicism: Political Forms of Opposition, Protest and Provocation in Art, 2012, and New Communities, 2008 (both at Moderna Museet in Stockholm), We, Ourselves, and Us at the Power Plant in Toronto, 2009, and ReForming India - Artistic Collectives Bend International Art Practices at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School in New York, 2007. 

Recent publications include: Decenterin the Museum. Contemporary Art Institutions and Colonial Legacies, London/Lund Humphries, 2023 (CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Title Award 2024); Kunst als Sozialer Raum, Cologne/ König Books, 2002/2017; and the edited volumes: Brave New Work. A Reader on Harun Farocki’s film ‚A New Product’, (Cologne/Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2014; forthcoming: Nina Möntmann and Carolin Höfler (eds,)‘The Entire Story Starts Where’. Connections and Exclusions of Translocal Positions, Berlin/Archive books, 2025; Nina Möntmann and Sabine Dahl Nielsen (eds.), Decentring the Museum in a Postmigrant Society, London/Routledge 2026.