Sarah Lewis-Cappellari

Dr. Sarah Lewis-Cappellari (PhD, UCLA) is a researcher, curator, and teacher whose work engages the interface of performance, contemporary art, colonial visual economies and Black and Caribbean Studies. Previously based in Berlin, she worked with the art & science collective Mobile Academy as one of its primary curators and researchers. Sarah has also researched and worked with collaborative art practices as a member of the performance collective LEWIS FOREVER (which presented work at Performance Space 122 and the New Museum in NYC, among other venues) independently with SOIT in Brussels, Agora and Sophiensaele in Berlin, and Tanzhaus NRW in Düsseldorf. Most recently she has been invited to guest lecture at Maumaus and the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, as well as in the curatorial master’s program at Zurich University of the Arts. Sarah currently also teaches critical theory to master film students in co-creation and innovation for social change at the IFS in Cologne.

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2025-2026 Unsettling Representation: On the Limits of Critique, Towards a Deciphering Practice