Lena Fritsch

Lena Fritsch is a curator and art historian, currently working as the inaugural Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford). One focus of her work is Japanese art and photography of the 20th and 21st century and she is an experienced translator of the Japanese language. She has published on a wide range of modern art, including the work of A.R. Penck, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Alberto Giacometti, Ishiuchi Miyako, Morimura Yasumasa, Agnes Martin, and art in Tokyo. Before joining the Ashmolean, Fritsch worked at Tate Modern, co-curating the large-scale retrospectives ‘Giacometti’ (2017) and ‘Agnes Martin’ (2015), and curating displays of works by Ai Weiwei and Simryn Gill. She was previously employed at the Directorate General, National Museums Berlin and Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art, Berlin. Fritsch holds a PhD from Bonn University and studied Art History, Japanese studies and English studies at Bonn University and Keio University, Tokyo. She has taught at the University of Oxford and Art Academy Munster.