Althea Thauberger

Prof. Althea Thauberger wearing a black top, blue jeans, and glasses, smiling


Academic Director, Public Humanities Hub
Associate Professor, Art History, Visual Art & Theory
Email: althea.thauberger@ubc.ca

Professor Althea Thauberger is an artist, filmmaker and educator known for place-based experimental documentary projects that emerge from collaborative research and production processes. Her work—spanning photography, film, video, and performance—explores relationships between community stories and geopolitical histories. She was born in Saskatoon, and is of settler Scandinavian and Black Sea German descent.

Prof. Thauberger’s recent exhibitions include the Kaunas Biennial (2021); Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (2020); The Toronto Biennial of Art (2019), The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (2019); The National Gallery of Canada (2019); La musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2017), and the inaugural Karachi Biennale 2017.

Prof. Thauberger’s work has been the subject of numerous articles and reviews published by journals including Art ForumCanadian ArtTema CelesteFlash ArtEuropean Photography, Artnet MagazineFrieze, the GuardianC Magazine International4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, The Mainlander, and Flash Art. Her work has been the subject of monographs published by The Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; The Liverpool Biennale; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Artspeak, Vancouver; and Musagetes, Guelph.

Photo credit: Zinnia Naqvi

Research Area: Photographic history and theory; documentary studies; collaborative/collective community research and production; place-based contemporary art, settler colonial studies, and archival studies.