Head of project

Jordan Troeller is Junior Professor of Contemporary Art History and Aesthetic Practices at the Institute for Fine Arts, Music and Education (IKMV) at Leuphana. Her research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary art in the United States, Europe, and Latin America, including topics such as: sculpture and sexuality, craft, textiles, fiber art, photography and archival practices, intersectional feminism and Queer Studies, as well as exile and diasporic visual culture. Jordan Troeller completed her academic training at the University of California, Berkeley (BA), and at Harvard University (MA, PhD).

Doctoral researcher

Antonia Rohwetter is a research associate in The M/Other Project and works as a dramaturge, cultural studies scholar, and theater scholar. She develops and organizes discourse formats at the interface of art and science, as well as the Festival Campus Lower Saxony, which she has directed together with Philipp Schulte since 2018. She has taught as a lecturer at the University of Witten/Herdecke and the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, among others. From 2021 to 2023, she directed the residency programs of the HAU Hebbel am Ufer theater in Berlin. She was a research fellow at the European think tank Creative Impact Research Center Europe (2023) and studied philosophy in the Ruhr region, applied theater studies in Giessen, and gender studies in Berlin.

Doctoral researcher

Yang Li is a research associate in The M/Other Project. She obtained an MA in Curatorship from the University of Melbourne. From 2022 to 2023, she was a visiting curator and researcher at Alpha Nova & Galerie Futura in Berlin, funded by the German Chancellor Fellowship (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation). During the Berlin Art Week in 2023, she curated the exhibition “I Made You to Find Me,” in which three artists from China and Germany explore motherhood, multiple identities, and matrilineal threads from an intergenerational perspective. In 2021, she served as a remote intern and guest curator at the Museum of Motherhood in the U.S. Her research and curatorial interests include feminist curating, motherhood in art, and Chinese feminist art.