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Petra Bauer is an artist and filmmaker based in Stockholm whose practice unfolds through long-term collaborations at the intersection of feminist politics, social movements, and the moving image. She approaches filmmaking not merely as representation but as a shared method—one that listens, questions, and builds solidarities across difference. Her work engages film as a space for collective inquiry, political memory, and the rehearsal of alternative forms of life.

Bauer studied at the Malmö Art Academy and holds a PhD from Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. She is currently Professor in Film & Media and responsible for the research area Art, Technology & Materiality at Stockholm University of the Arts, and has held a professorship in moving image at the Royal Institute of Art since 2016.

Over the years, she has co-developed cinematic and pedagogical processes with grassroots networks—ranging from SCOT-PEP’s advocacy for sex workers’ rights in Scotland, to collaborations with Southall Black Sisters in London, feminist archives and women’s centres across Europe. She has also worked closely with activist Carolina Sinisalo and filmmaker Marius Dybwad Brandrud in exploring grief, resistance, and political witnessing through film. These projects are shaped by a politics of listening, where storytelling becomes both a form of resistance and a practice of care.

Her films and research have been presented at venues such as The Showroom, Collective, Fruitmarket, Tensta konsthall, the Venice Biennale, and Museo Reina Sofía, among others.