Caspar Krisch is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He is specializing in German art post-1945, with a particular interest in politics of memory and the visualization of historical narratives in relation to aspects of identity.
Caspar holds an M.A. in Art and Visual History from the Humboldt University of Berlin and a B.A. from the University of South Wales. His master's thesis, "Alternative Spaces: Isa Genzken's Sculptures as Models of Architectural Imagination," investigated how urban spaces have informed Isa Genzken's artistic practice, arguing that the paradoxes that manifest in the reception of the artist's work constitute a critique of postwar modernity and develop the potential for architectural models of queer spaces.
Before joining Princeton, Caspar served as a Research Assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) and as a Curatorial Assistant at the Folker Skulima Art Foundation. In 2022, he was a visiting graduate student at the Department of Art History at Rice University. He has secured external funding, namely from the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD).
