Academic Practice

My academic practice combines research and teaching in art history and visual culture within university and international research contexts. It focuses on modern and contemporary art, with an emphasis on textiles, photography, and postcolonial image politics, moving between analysis, theory, and teaching formats.

  • I have held research and teaching positions at institutions including the University of Hamburg, Freie Universität Berlin, and the University of Siegen, alongside fellowships such as the Isa Lohmann-Siems Foundation. I was a research associate in the international consortium Bilderfahrzeuge – Aby Warburg’s Legacy and the Future of Iconology, and have contributed to interdisciplinary research contexts connecting art history with media theory and cultural studies.

    Selected Positions

  • I regularly teach at universities including Basel, Zurich, Siegen, Hamburg, and Weissensee School of Art.

    Selected Teaching

    • Kunsthochschule Weißensee Berlin (2025)
      Textilität / Textility

    • University of Basel (2024)
      Seminar: Do textiles matter as art as never before? Textile techniques and materials in art since 1960

    • University of Zurich (2024)
      Seminar: Textile Architectures

    • University of Siegen (2023)
      Seminar: Women Artists in Global Perspective
      Ring Lecture: How to Exhibit (Art) after 2020

    • University of Hamburg (2021–2019)
      Seminar: The Reception of Aby Warburg in Contemporary Art
      Ring Lecture: BildFahrZeug – On the Circulation of Artefacts

    • University of the Arts Berlin (2020/21)
      Seminar: Aby Warburg – Ideas, Contexts, Reception

    • University of Hamburg (selected earlier teaching)
      Seminar: Critical White Cube? Postcolonial Exhibition Practices
      Seminar: Textile Architecture since the 1960s
      Seminar: With Needle and Thread. Sewn Objects in Contemporary Art
      Seminar: History and Theory of Photography

    • Freie Universität Berlin (2009)
      Summer School: Gender and Identity beyond Fixity (Judith Butler)

  • Building on my research and teaching, my talks explore how images, materials, and artistic practices circulate between theory, exhibition, and public discourse, with a focus on textiles, photography, and postcolonial image politics. I speak at universities, museums, and research institutions in international and collaborative contexts.

    Selection of talks & lectures

    Textiles, Materiality & Contemporary Art

    • Barcelona, Design Museum (2025): Textile matters: virtual fashion in the digital era

    • Basel, eikones (2023): Veiling Space. Textile’s anti-matter

    • Warburg-Haus Hamburg (2023): Textile Räume. Hybride Formationen und neue Materialitäten

    • Stuttgart, Kunsthistorikertag (2022): After Primary Structures: Textile Formations 1966–71 (with Anne Röhl)

    Postcolonial Image Politics

    • Paris, INHA (2024): Textile interventions in processes of decolonizing monuments (with Anne Röhl)

    • Hamburg, Warburg-Haus (2024): Fashionable Promises of Bioremediation (with Anne Röhl)

    • TU Darmstadt (2021): Textile actions as postcolonial protest (with Anne Röhl)

    Image Theory / Photography

    • Warburg Institute, London (2018): Textile matters: New Materialities and Hybrid Formations

    • University of Cambridge (2008): Orders and Disorders: Photography’s Postcolonial Critique

    • Hildesheim (2022): Skin matters? On image discourses of “skin color”