Maria Bremer is an art historian specializing in contemporary art and exhibition history. She earned her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in 2017 with a dissertation on the documenta editions of the 1970s, which was published in 2019 under the title Individuelle Mythologien. Kunst jenseits der Kritik. She worked as a research associate in the ERC-funded project "OwnReality" at the German Center for Art History in Paris (2011–2015) and as a postdoctoral researcher and Minerva Fast Track Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome (2017–2021). In 2021, she joined the Art History Institute of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Since October 2024, she has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Art History at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Currently, she is developing a book project on the historiographical implications of all-women exhibitions in 1970s Italy and their contemporary restaging.