This issue gathers contributions that emerged from the conference and workshop “Situated Knowledges – Art and Curating on the Move” and show the partiality and situatedness of one’s own position in our respective fields of expertise, within our educational frameworks and contact zones. The term “situated knowledges” coined by Donna Haraway declares that all scientific knowledge is fundamentally conditional and therefore works against the assumption of the apparently neutral and unmediated knowledge of the (male, white) Western idea of science and its representation through totalizing visualization techniques.