Dr. Cornelia Lund

Dr Cornelia Lund is a Berlin-based art and media scholar and curator. She has worked for years in research and teaching, mainly on documentary and audiovisualartistic practices, design theory, and de- and postcolonial theories (including at HU Berlin, University of the Arts Bremen, University of Hamburg, HTW Berlin). Since 2004, she has been co-director of fluctuating images, an independent and non-commercial platform for media art, music and design (www.fluctuating-images.de), and the base for long-term research into Turkish pop music published on vinyl and cassettes in Germany and Turkey (1960s–1980s) and its hidden archives. This research is accompanied by academic publications, international invitations and vinyl re-releases in collaboration with Seismographic Records (Stuttgart). 

Her academic career includes a position as researcher in a DFG project on German documentary cinema (University of Hamburg, 2012–2018), in 2022 she was a research fellow at the University of Windsor in Canada, and she has been repeatedly invited as a guest researcher and professor to Universidade de São Paulo and PUC São Paulo. She has curated and collaborated on numerous screenings and exhibitions, latest examples are the exhibition and research project Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, 2019), LaboratoireKontempo Kinshasa–Berlin (2021/2022) and Conversation Room for John Akomfrah: The Unfinished Conversation (Kunstmuseum Ravensburg, 2025).
Among her most important publications are Audio.Visual—Visual Music and Related Media (2009), Design der Zukunft (2014), The Audiovisual Breakthrough (2015), Connecting Afro Futures. Fashion x Hair x Design (2019), as well as the online platforms Post-digital Culture (2016–), Lund Audiovisual Wiritings (2017), and decolonial.etc.br as the result of a workshop at PUC SP (2021–).

Since 2021, Cornelia Lund is Research Fellow at the University of the Arts Bremenwith a project on audiovisual documentary performances.

For a complete list of publications see ORCID-ID 0000-0003-4162-5712