about

i am a writer and critic whose work revolves around the relation between aesthetic forms and global capitalism. my academic work focuses on art from or connected to post-1989 germany. before joining harvard’s department of art, film, and visual studies as a phd student, i studied art and visual history at humboldt-universität zu berlin, uc berkeley, école normale supérieure, and école des hautes études en sciences sociales. berlin feels like one version of home, but i am also partial to places on the baltic, the pacific, and at lake constance.

my essays, interviews, and criticism have appeared in e-flux, texte zur kunst, the baffler, x-tra, mubi notebook, taz, the brooklyn rail, BOMB, and senses of cinema, among others. i also write fiction, and am currently at work on a collection of stories about claustrophobia. i am an alumni of the young critics workshop at film fest gent (2021), berlinale talents (2023), and the critics circle at viennale (2023); a co-editor of re:visions, an open-access online journal for recent art and visual culture, based at freie universität, berlin; and an associate of harvard’s davis center for russian and eurasian studies. in 2025/26, i will be the graduate curatorial intern in the division of modern and contemporary art at the harvard art museums.

contact: luisemoerke [at] gmail [dot] com
photo by maximilien luc proctor