About

Noemi Y. Molitor, PhD, is a Berlin based artist, researcher, lecturer, and art writer. She studied Gender Studies and European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Cornell University, and Emory University.

Her artistic practice includes abstract painting, comics, and installations that incorporate found materials and given spaces. Her work is guided by an interest in materiality and color relations, repetition and movement, as well as shifts in scale. She is a founding member of the feminist art collective Trial and Theresa.

Exhibitions include “The Artist as Curator’s Art vol. XIV”, Schau Fenster, Berlin (2024); “Tipping the Drop”, Kunstraum m3, Berlin (2022); “Lesbisches Sehen“, Schwules Museum, Berlin (2018); Queer Arts Festival, Vancouver, Canada (2016); “Deep Trash from Outer Space” by CUNTemporary, Bethnel Green Working Men’s Club, London, UK (2016); and “Queer: Post-sexual – The Box Re-examined“, 15th FRINGE! Queer film and arts festival, London, UK (2015).

In 2015, she worked as a research and curatorial assistant for the joint exhibition Homosexualität_en / Homosexuality_ies at the German Historical Museum and the Schwules Museum*, Berlin.

Molitor holds a PhD (2020) from the department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Emory University, USA, where she wrote her dissertation “Chrononauts in Chromotopia: Toward an Erotics of Abstract Painting’s Materiality in the Works of Lynda Benglis and Katharina Grosse.“

She has worked as an editor and columnist for taz. die tageszeitung. Her essays on contemporary art and queer film have appeared in CURA, BE, Sleek, Missy magazine, and Sissy magazine. In 2025 she was recognized with the ADKV / ART COLOGNE Prize for Art Criticism.