Dr. Nora Heidorn
Dr. Nora Heidorn works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for British and American Studies at the University of Vienna and as an Assistant Curator for the exhibition Horizontal: The Politics and Poetics of the Sickbed at the Berlin Museum of Medical History. She makes exhibitions, public programmes, and collaborative creative projects, as well as publishing in academic and arts contexts. Her practice is led by transdisciplinary research investigating the complex politics of sexual reproduction, health, and care. She does this through an intersectional feminist lens and using curatorial and artistic methods.
Nora completed her AHRC-funded PhD, Reckoning with the necropolitics of reproduction: On the concomitance of care and violence in two artefacts of reproductive healthcare, in the Health and Care Research Cluster at the Royal College of Art, London in 2025.
From 2022-2025 she collaborated with the artist Lynne Kouassi to create and exhibit the body of work Naturkulturpolitik, which was shortlisted for the Feminist Art Prize at IKOB Museum, Belgium, in 2025. Her curated exhibitions include Being Horizontal, Project Arts Centre, Dublin (2023), Onyeka Igwe: Dancing with the Archive, Uferstudios, Berlin (2022); and Sick & Desiring, Bergen Assembly, Bergen (2019). Nora co-edited the books I care by…, Royal College of Art, London (2021) and Coming Soon, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Nero editions, Turin/Rome (2018).
She has previously worked as an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins College, as Curator and Project Coordinator in the Department of Art at Goldsmiths College and as Director at the gallery The Approach (all in London). She lives and works in Berlin.
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