Larissa Platz (she/her)
Larissa Platz (1997) is a curator and researcher rooted in the interdisciplinary fields of social science. She holds a Master of Arts in Art Education – Curatorial Studies from Zurich University of the Arts and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Lucerne.
Larissa‘s work spans exhibitions, artistic group projects, text contributions, and initiatives in diversity-sensitive organizational development, cultural funding, and cultural programming. Her research interests center on narrative structures and ways to renegotiate history and memory. While curatorial work inherently produces narratives, Larissa believes it can also challenge what we perceive as irrefutable or given. She views curatorial practice as a means to create spaces where prejudices are tested, symbolic orders can be disclosed and the categories of the legible and the illegible, the visible and the invisible, are continually renegotiated. Through collaborative processes and a broad research-based approach, she is committed to foster precise, theoretically and aesthetically ambitious curatorial projects.
Larissa prefers to write in English, think in German, and dream in Portuguese. She likes to think about the idea of holding space rather than taking space. Holding space as an act that requires constant care. Holding space as a decision to stand up for oneself. Holding space in order to pass along, to share a held space. Holding space as shaping spaces.