Charlotte Matter (she/her) is Laurenz Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art. She studied visual communication in Lucerne and Vienna, then art history and film studies in Zurich. In 2021, she received her doctorate in art history from the University of Zurich with a dissertation on plastics in art of the 1960s and 1970s from a feminist perspective. She is co-director of the research group “Rethinking Art History through Disability” and a founding member of CARAH – Collective for Anti-Racist Art History. Since 2023 she is also co-editor of Sculpture Journal at Liverpool University Press. Previously, she was a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, where she coordinated the master’s program “Art History in a Global Context” from 2015 to 2024. In 2019/2020, she was a member of the research initiative “Rome Contemporary” at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome and a fellow at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma.

Research interests

Artistic practices from the 1960s to the present
Feminist art and theory
Materiality
Class, labor, and non-productivity
Intersectional perspectives and disability studies

Office hours
Fridays 12–2 pm. Please register by email to Charlotte Matter.