Maxie Fischer is a cultural manager based in Berlin, Germany. She works at the intersection of curatorial practice and communication, with a focus on contemporary art, documentary strategies and social history. She is particularly interested in the relationship between artistic discourse and social transformation, as well as in holistic approaches to institutional programming that connect exhibitions, mediation, research, and public engagement. Her work engages with questions of what constitutes public institutions, public space and the public, examining how access, visibility and participation are structured and contested.
As a curator she has conceived exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, and Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie in Winterthur, collaborating closely with artists including Alicja Rogalska, Laura Bielau, and Jens Klein. These projects often emerge from close dialogue with the artists and explore issues such as labour, collective memory, and image politics. From 2023 to 2024 she was a curator in residence at Kunsthalle Münster.
As a communications manager she has held positions like German Press and Media Officer for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and Deputy Head of Communications at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Her freelance projects have included work for DAAD – Berliner Künstler*programm, Bergen Assembly – An Initiative for Art and Research, and Berlin Documentary Forum 3 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Maxie Fischer studied cultural management, cultural history and theory, and digital humanities in Leipzig, Bergen, and Berlin. She completed her Master of Arts at Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2016, following scholarship-supported stays in New York and Norway. From 2019 to 2025, she conducted doctoral research on the photographic work of Michael Schmidt, examining how his practice articulates social transformations in post-1945 Germany. This research reflects her broader interest in how the past and historiography shape the present, and how artists engage with this relationship critically. Her work has been supported by Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, and the German Academic Exchange Service.
As a curator she has conceived exhibitions at institutions such as Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen, and Coalmine – Raum für Fotografie in Winterthur, collaborating closely with artists including Alicja Rogalska, Laura Bielau, and Jens Klein. These projects often emerge from close dialogue with the artists and explore issues such as labour, collective memory, and image politics. From 2023 to 2024 she was a curator in residence at Kunsthalle Münster.
As a communications manager she has held positions like German Press and Media Officer for documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel, and Deputy Head of Communications at Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. Her freelance projects have included work for DAAD – Berliner Künstler*programm, Bergen Assembly – An Initiative for Art and Research, and Berlin Documentary Forum 3 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt.
Maxie Fischer studied cultural management, cultural history and theory, and digital humanities in Leipzig, Bergen, and Berlin. She completed her Master of Arts at Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2016, following scholarship-supported stays in New York and Norway. From 2019 to 2025, she conducted doctoral research on the photographic work of Michael Schmidt, examining how his practice articulates social transformations in post-1945 Germany. This research reflects her broader interest in how the past and historiography shape the present, and how artists engage with this relationship critically. Her work has been supported by Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg, and the German Academic Exchange Service.