She is the co-founder and co-director of peer to space,[1] a platform and exhibition hub for curatorial projects founded in Munich, Germany in 2010.
Sauerlaender's professional career started at the international exhibition space Haus der Kunst in Munich in 2007.
She is the founder and co-director of the SALOON,[4] a network for women in Berlin's the art scene with branches in Hamburg, Paris and Vienna.
[5] Consequently it focuses on contemporary art which reflects and visualizes current affairs and interests of our time, mainly the digital and the internet.
Founded by Sauerlaender in 2012, the SALOON is an international network for women working in the art scene as curators, artists, journalists, or in galleries, museums or universities.
Sauerlaender and has been running the SALOON Berlin together with Alina Heinze, director of The Kennedys (museum), and the artist Ornella Fieres.