Christian Reinach-Baumgartner holds a master’s degree in art history. He works as a researcher in museum and cultural studies in Colombia, Latin America, from the affective turn. His main focus is on exploring the narratives of affective experiences associated with death, suffering and loneliness in aesthetic-cultural production. Through their contexts of production and reception, he glimpses their agency as vehicles to disrupt or assimilate hegemonic norms in foundational discourses, especially those given in the fin-de-siècle.
Christian is a mathematician with a minor in philosophy: this has allowed him to maintain interdisciplinary approaches in his work. He currently works with regional governments leading research with Afro-Colombian communities associated with their cultural practices as tools for collective grief.
At the same time, he has accompanied emerging regional museum networks in their curatorial, museological and educational practices. The latter has allowed him to deepen his interests associated with the conception of curatorship as a pedagogical practice that integrates sociocultural studies around affect and emotions to subvert gender and race norms, as well as sociocultural elitism.
