Hannah Jacobi is a freelance art historian, author, and curator specializing in global art. In 2017, she published a collection of interviews entitled Stimmen aus Teheran. Interviews zur zeitgenössischen Kunst im Iran (Voices from Tehran. Interviews on Contemporary Art in Iran, Edition Faust 2017), which includes conversations with Tehran-based artists, theorists and gallery owners, interrogating modes of producing art in relation to the sociopolitical environment in Iran. Between 2011 and 2021, she has developed and organised projects at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, connecting theory and art. She is co-founder and co-director of mohit.art, a transcultural network of cooperation and platform for art and dialog between European and West Asian art contexts. Her texts about contemporary art in Iran were published in Canvas, Il Sole 24 Ore, Herfeh: Honarmand, springerin, Tagesspiegel, and taz.

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