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DFG-Research project “Demodernisms. Art and Coloniality in France 1945-1966”, Arts of Africa Department FU Berlin

2019-2021 Guest researcher Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Paris

2018-2019 Art Histories Fellow, Forum Transregionale Studien Berlin

2017-2019 Assistant Curator, Museum Rietberg, Zürich

PhD in Art Theory, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. (Dissertation: The Boon of Barbarism. Returns on an Idea in Contemporary Art and Politics. Advisors: Diedrich Diederichsen, TJ Demos)

Master in Art and Critical Studies, University of California Los Angeles

Wintersemester 2024/25

Paris Anti-/Colonial. Zeitgenössische Kunst und Kolonialität in Paris 1946-1966

Wintersemester 2023/24

Künste der Entfremdung

Wintersemester 2022/23

‘Négritudes' und die Künste der 1930er-1960er Jahre. Konzepte, Kritiken, Nachwirkungen

Demodernisms. Art and Coloniality in France 1945-1966

Research areas

Art and Coloniality in a Global Context

Decolonial approaches to transatlantic art histories after 1945

Art and Politics of Afrique-Occidentale française and Afrique-Equatoriale française

Art and Politics of Independent Senegal

Interwar avant-gardes and fringe movements in Germany and France 1910s-1930s

Contemporary Art Criticism

(Aktuell)

"Dakar’s Salon Confrontation of 1966”, Nka-Journal of Contemporary African Art, Issue 54, May 2024, pp. 80-101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/10757163-11205474

"Eye For I", 12th Berlin Biennale 2022, Texte zur Kunst, No. 128, December 2022

"El Hadji Sy. Dakar”, Artforum, October 2022

“The Black Artist who said “No”. Colonial Paris and the Art of Wilson Tiberio”, 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur, Bd.2, Heft 3, 2021, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/xxi.2021.3.83378

"Interview: Yael Bartana", Artforum, June 2021

“Isa Genzken. Kunstmuseum Basel”, Artforum, April 2021

“Mo(nu)ments” in Mischa Kuball. ReferenzRäume, eds. Andreas Beitin/Holger Broeker/Fritz Emslander, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König 2021, pp. 19-25

“Spiegel—Bild. Reflexion und Position in der Kunst der Moderne”, in Spiegel. Der Mensch im Widerschein, ed. Albert Lutz, Museum Rietberg Zürich 2019, Köln: Wienand 2019, pp. 182-189

“Ads for Air”, in Georgia Sagri, Georgia Sagri and I, eds. Christina Lehnert and Philippe Pirotte. Kunstverein Braunschweig/Portikus Frankfurt a.M., Berlin: Sternberg Press 2018, pp. 92-95

“Monika Baer. NBK Berlin”, Artforum, October 2020

“Particle Accelerator”, Texte zur Kunst, No. 113, March 2019