Stéphanie Noach

Stephanie Noach is an independent curator and Assistant Professor of Art History at Leiden University, working on global contemporary art and theory, particularly from the Caribbean and Latin America. Her research examines the vitality of the darkness in contemporary art, challenging anti-dark and anti-Black perspectives embedded in modernity. Her dissertation, Dark Matters. Recasting Darkness with Contemporary Latin American Art, was awarded the Erasmus Dissertation Prize, recognizing it as one of the five best dissertations written at Dutch universities.
As a curator, Noach has worked on exhibitions, discursive events, and performance series at institutions including the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museo de Bellas Artes de La Habana, the University Museum of MUAC (Mexico City), Lugar a dudas (Cali), Flora. Ars+Natura (Bogotá), Traspatio (Mérida), Fábrica de Arte Cubano (Havana), the Havana Biennial, Museo de Antioquia (Medellín), and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam.

Her research has been supported by fellowships at the Afro-Latin American Research Institute at Harvard University and the Jan van Eyck Academie. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Medellín (2018) and the University of Arts of Cuba, Havana (2014-2017).

Currently, Noach is exploring the transformative role of children in art-science collaborations, focusing on their capacity to nurture fragile yet persistent instances of hope and resistance.