LECTURE | Sascia Bailer “Caring Infrastructures”

Sascia Bailer 
Caring Infrastructures
Online lecture in English

Arsenal Gallery in Białystok
28 June, 2026 (Sunday), 5 pm
An event accompanying the exhibition “Our Child”

The speech will be screened at the Gallery in English, with simultaneous interpreting into Polish. The event will be streamed live (interpreting unavailable) on the Gallery’s Facebook page.

CARING INFRASTRUCTURES:
Making the Artworld Accessible for Caregivers

Whilst care work continues to be rendered largely invisible in society, its devaluation is particularly evident in the cultural sector: wider gender pay gaps, precarious working conditions, male-dominated leadership positions and structures that exclude people with caring responsibilities. While it is essential to build support structures for caregivers in the arts, it is also necessary to recognize care as a feminist ethical positioning that calls for fair pay, equality, representation and accessibility in the arts.  

In her talk, the curator, researcher and author Sascia Bailer will present the theories and collective practices from her book “Caring Infrastructures: Transforming the Arts Through Feminist Curating” (transcript, 2024). Using everyday examples, she demonstrates how care can be embedded as a political and curatorial practice within the (infra)structures of the cultural sector, thereby offering a feminist roadmap for a fairer, more inclusive and care-sensitive art world.

Dr. Sascia Bailer is a researcher, writer, and curator working at the intersection of care, gender, and socially engaged art. Sascia earned her practice-based PhD from the Zurich University of the Arts and the University of Reading, drawing on her participatory curatorial program on care during her time as Artistic Director (2019/20) of M.1 at the Arthur Boskamp-Stiftung. This research led to her book Caring Infrastructures: Transforming the Arts Through Feminist Curating (transcript, 2024). As the co-founder of CARING CULTURE LAB and member of the art collective Mothers*, Warriors, and Poets, she builds discourse and platforms to advance the structural transformations of the art sector towards more care and inclusivity. She has worked internationally within the arts, including at MoMA PS1, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics. Currently she is a Senior Researcher at HEAD Genève, where she investigates cultural participation in Switzerland.

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund