[8] She edited the eponymous compendium published by The MIT Press, Kunsthall Trondheim and The Seed Box with new essays by Mel Y. Chen, Jack Halberstam, Astrida Neimanis, and others.
[9] The exhibition included artists Jes Fan, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Okwui Okpokwasili, Margrethe Pettersen, Alberta Whittle, and others.
[12] In 2018 she curated an exhibition on the artist Juan Downey at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm,[13] the exhibition "Prospecting Ocean" with artist Armin Linke at the Institute of Marine Sciences in Venice, Italy, which was commissioned by TBA21–Academy and in partnership with Istituto di Scienze Marine (CNR-ISMAR),[14] as well as a performance by Joan Jonas at the Tate Modern's Turbine Hall entitled "Moving Off The Land".
[18] In 2017 Hessler curated the exhibition "Sugar and Speed" at the Museum of Modern Art in Recife, Brazil[6][19] and the project "Fishing for Islands" with Chus Martínez at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, Germany.
[6][21] Hessler has worked with artists such as Christine Sun Kim, Florian Hecker,[22] Jenna Sutela, Joan Jonas, Tomás Saraceno, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Frida Orupabo, Isabel Lewis, Adrian Piper, Sissel Tolaas, Tabita Rezaire.