Andrea Fraser will examine her work and position as an artist within the framework she elaborates in her essay The Field of Contemporary Art: A Diagram (2024). Fraser's Diagram represents the art world fragmenting into increasingly autonomous subfields—including the art market, the field of exhibitions, the academic field, a multitude of community-based subfields, and the field of cultural activism. Each of these subfields holds distinct criteria by which art is evaluated and constitutes distinct economies of value, resources, and power. In her lecture, Fraser will reflect on how she locates herself and her work within these dynamics and the challenges artists face in navigating them.

Andrea Fraser is an artist and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work investigates the social, financial, and affective economies of cultural institutions, fields, and groups. Identified with feminism, performance, and institutional critique, she combines the site-specific and research-based practices of conceptualism with feminist investigations of subjectivity and desire to explore the power and domination produced and reproduced in the art field. Retrospectives of her work have been presented by the Museum Ludwig Cologne (2013), Museum der Moderne Salzburg (2015), Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona/MUAC UNAM Mexico City (2016), and Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (2025). Her books include Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (2005), 2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics (2018), and Andrea Fraser: Collected Interviews 1990–2018 (2019). She is currently a Visual Arts Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Her exhibition Untitled (Objects) is on view at Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin, through November 2025.