Univ.-Prof. Dr. Magdalena Nieslony
Professorship for Global Contemporary Art at the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies
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Curriculum Vitae:
1996-2002 Studied art history and philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt/M. and Université de Paris X-Nanterre, Paris; scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
2003-2004 Gallery assistant at Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt/M. and freelance curator
2004-2007 Doctoral scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation
2009-2012 Research assistant at the Institute of Art History, Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.
2013 Doctorate at the Institute of Art History, Goethe University, Frankfurt/M.; Dissertation: Ivan Puni and the Conditionality of Painting. A topos of Russian avant-garde aesthetics
2012-2014 Academic assistant at the Institute for European Art History, University of Heidelberg
2015-2016 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Art History in Florence/Max Planck Institute
2016-2020 Academic assistant at the Institute for Art History, University of Stuttgart
2018-2019 DAAD postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
2019-20 Visiting Professor at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna
2020 Substitute Professor of Eastern European Art History, Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
since October 2020 Professor of Global Contemporary Art at the Department of Art History, University of Vienna
Research areas:
* Modern and contemporary art, especially Eastern European art
* New media and media upheavals in modernism and the present day
* Art and ethics / art and politics in contemporary aesthetic discourse
* Art in the consumer society* Artistic reflection on visual perception
* Relationship between theoretical and artistic practice in artistic work