My expertise is contemporary art from and in the “Global South”. I am interested in understanding the role of art in societies as well as the production, dissemination and collection or acquisition of art. Art has always been and turned into a means of domestic and foreign politics in various fields, be they local or global. Especially since the introduction of the China-led “Belt and Road Initiative” in 2013, cultural politics emerge as a new field of negotiating power, hegemony and regional identities in the “Global South”, more precisely in Asia.

My research includes (postcolonial) art agency, cultural elites, symbolic capital and the contemporary role of cultural politics in the “Global South”.

talks & moderation

02/22 — The Politics of (Underrepresented) Arts, within the event Focus India of the exhibition Indian Storytellers, Galerie Under the Mango Tree, Berlin (November 21 - February 22)

10/21 — Dartington and Shantiniketan: entangled artworlds, Kunstmuseum Folkwang, Essen within the framework of the exhibition „Global Groove. Art, Dance, Performance and Protest“ (August 21 - November 21)

07/17 — Participant at podium discussion on recent developments in Global Art History in the framework of the exhibition Common Ground #3 - Where the Circles Intersect, (with Prof. Dr. Ehninger and Prof. Dr. Juneja) at Kleine Humboldt Galerie, Humboldt University Berlin

05/15 — Curating as Interface? Some Reflections on the Global Flows between Contemporary Art Worlds at Internationales Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria

10/14 — Framing Reality. What science can learn from art and vice versa, DWIH Horizon, Deutsches Wissenschafts- und Innovationshaus Delhi, Indira Gandhi National Center for The Arts

09/14 — Nationality Sells. India and the Global Art Market, First European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology, Olomouc

11/13 — Panel moderator Panel I: Research, Media Art and Documentary Filmmaking, in the framework of New Media Configurations - Changing Societies? Current research perspectives on South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, international conference at Humboldt University Berlin

04/12 — Medialization processes in the contemporary art world in India, Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi

07/10 — Contemporary Art Worlds in India, within the framework of the panel Identifying New Topics for South Asian Studies, ZMO Berlin

texts

2023 — audio feature: Mehr als Schienen und Straßen https://www.delink-relink.de/2023/01/30/audio-feature/

2022 — audio interview Kulturpolitik entlang Chinas Neuer Seidenstraße https://replito.de/archive/archiveDetails?Id=49

2020 — Kunst, Markt, Kommunikation: Die Zeitgenössische Kunstwelt in Indien im Wandel (2000 - 2018), Monograph, xasia eBooks, https://crossasia-books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/xasia/catalog/book/849

2016 — Ab nach Delhi...Eine Einführung in die Kunstszene, in: Monopol. Magazin für Leben und Kunst, Heft 2, S. 104-106

2012 — Über die Sensibilisierung von und durch Materie in der Kunst, in: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) et al., „Das Maribor Projekt. Rebecca Horn & Gäste“, S. 39-47 (Ausst. Kat.)

2012 — KunstStoff Syrien – Künstlerische Einführung in die Ausstellung, in: Kunststoff Syrien. Ein-und Ausblicke in ein zerrissenes Land, Galerie Forum Factory, Berlin (Ausst. Kat.)

2012 — The Present is in the Detail. Reflections on the Contemporary: The Psychoscapes of Anj Smith, in: Anj Smith, Galerie Isa, Mumbai (Ausst. Kat.)

2011 — Translocal Art Worlds in Times of Medialisation: Some observations on India’s art world in transition, Internationales Asienforum, Arnold Bergsträsser Institut, Heft 42, Nr. 3-4 (peer reviewed)

2011 — Translokale Kunstmärkte im Wandel: Das Beispiel Indien, Online-Publikation für Masala Newsletter Virtuelle Fachbibliothek Südasien, Jg. 6, Nr. 2

2010 — Herausgeberin und Autorin des Ausstellungskataloges Nadia Kaabi Linke. Tatort, Kerber Verlag, 2010

2010 — Lexika-Beiträge zu „Kunstgeschichte“ und „Kunstbetrieb“, in: Hedinger, Johannes/ Gossolt, Marcus/ CentrePasquArt Biel, Lexikon zur Zeitgenössischen Kunst von COM&COM. Zürich: Niggli