Ulrike Kuchner

Ulrike Kuchner is an astronomer, artist, curator, and researcher of ArtScience collaborations. Trained in astrophysics (PhD) and fine arts painting (MFA), she integrates scientific inquiry with creative practice while investigating how knowledge is collaboratively produced across disciplines. She is a Senior Research Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Nottingham, where she researches the large-scale structure of the Universe and co-leads the ARTlab for artists-in-residence. Alongside this, she co-coordinates SEADS, an international collective of over 200 transdisciplinary practitioners, and maintains an artistic practice exploring error, uncertainty, and glitches as creative resources. She has curated exhibitions that have reached more than two million people worldwide.