Charlotte Bank is an art historian and independent curator, living and working between Berlin and Geneva. She is currently preparing her PhD thesis titled “The emerging contemporary art scene in Syria: Between the tradition of social critique and a contemporary artistic movement in the Arab World” at the University of Geneva. From February 2013 – February 2016 she was a member of the Swiss National Fund research project “Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression Outside the West”.