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Tamara Loewenstein (she/her) has worked at the intersection of arts, education, and social justice for nearly two decades. Her practice weaves together history, identity, and political activism, situating artistic production within broader cultural and societal contexts. She currently serves as Program Curator for Arts & Culture at the Goethe-Institut San Francisco, where she develops exhibitions, public programs, and initiatives that foreground transatlantic dialogue, foregrounding diverse perspectives.

During her six years in Germany, Loewenstein engaged deeply with Holocaust memory culture and Jewish futurism, teaching courses on memory culture from critical and future-oriented frameworks, as well as on Postmemory and the Holocaust through the lens of second- and third-generation artistic interventions.

Among her projects, she produced Die nächsten 1700 Jahre: Queer Jewish Futures, a conversation series exploring reimagined Jewish futures in Germany, convening queer and Jewish artists, activists, and writers from across the diaspora. She also collaborated on Prideuntold, an archival research initiative in partnership with the Neuengamme Concentration Camp, which illuminated underrepresented queer, trans, and non-binary histories under National Socialism.

Loewenstein has curated exhibitions and public programs at venues across San Francisco—including the African American Arts & Culture Complex, Galleria de la Raza, Manresa Gallery, Million Fishes Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, The Spare Room Project, and Queens Nails Annex. She acted as curatorial consultant for the founding of Ruth's Table gallery at Bethany Center Senior Housing honoring Ruth Asawa and served on the GLBT Historical society committees in a variety of capacities.

In Germany, she taught and presented talks and public programs at institutions including Kampnagel, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Hamburger Volkshochschule, Jüdischer Salon am Grindel, and the Israelitische Töchterschule Memorial. She served as a jury member for the Fluctoplasma Festival for Art, Discourse, and Diversity. Her co-authored essay with Debora Antmann appears in the artists’ catalogue MEINEJUDEN, published on the occasion of Miriam Cahn’s receipt of the Rubens Prize.

She holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts and a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from the New College of California.