Marion von Osten (1963–2020) was an artist, curator, researcher, and teacher who developed a profound critique of subjectivity under neoliberal capitalism shaped by the afterlives of colonial modernity. Her works include the international exhibition series bauhaus imaginista (2017–2019), In the Desert of Modernity (2008–2009, Berlin/Casablanca), and Sex & Space (1996, Zürich). Her collaborators included Labor k3000, kleines postfordistisches Drama, and the Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture.