Vera Ryser is based in Zurich and works as a freelance curator, artist, researcher, mediator, and lecturer. Her interests include collaborative practices, aesthetics of transformation, and representations of knowledge cultures. She explores decolonial practices, feminist resistance, and memory politics, aiming to update these topics beyond the seemingly clear boundaries of practice and theory. Vera Ryser is a founding member of the collectives Das Wandbild muss weg! and Studio for Memory Politics. She is also an external lecturer in art and cultural theory in the Major Szenischer Raum at the Zurich University of the Arts.