Katrin Bauer (*1992) is a curator and writer, based in Munich. She currently serves as curator for Astrophysics and Art – an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Haus der Kunst München and the Technical University of Munich. She also works as co-curator and project coordinator for FOTODOKS, a Munich-based festival dedicated to contemporary documentary photography. Prior to this, she has been working as research associate for Photography and Time-based Media at the Pinakotheken and as assistant curator at Fotomuseum Winterthur. She is the recipient of the C/O Berlin Talent Award 2024 in the category 'Theorist' and worked as a visiting lecturer in the field of photography theory in Freiburg (DE).
Her curatorial research is driven by an interest in photography’s representational politics and decolonial strategies in contemporary art production. She holds degrees from the Zurich University of the Arts and the University for Fine Arts, Design and Music, Freiburg. Her writings have been featured in Camera Austria, Christoph Merian Verlag, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, DISTANZ, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Museum Folkwang, Pinakothek der Moderne, Rundbrief Fotografie, Spector Books and transcript Verlag, among others.