Marianne Wagner  is Curator for Contemporary Art and Head of the Skulptur Projekte Archives at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur. Together with Kasper König and Britta Peters, she curated the the Skulptur Projekte 2017. Her dissertation, titled Lecture Performance: Speech Acts as Performance Art since 1950 was awarded the Joseph Beuys Research Prize in 2014. She has developed and realized exhibition projects at the Kunstmuseum Thun, the Aargauer Kunsthaus, and the Nidwaldner Museum and has taught at the University of Bern, the Hochschule der Künste Bern, the Kunstakademie Münster as well as at the Goethe University Frankfurt. From 2017 to 2020, she and Ursula Frohne codirected the Skulptur Projekte Archives research project, which was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation and carried out in cooperation with the University of Münster (WWU).