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Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren
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Kunst und Design

Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren

Transkulturelle Kunstwissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Mona Schieren

Mona Schieren studied art history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and at the Villa Arson, École nationale supérieure d’art, Nice. She previously studied social economics at the University of Economics and Politics (diploma). Her dissertation Transcultural Translation in the Work of Agnes Martin: On the Construction of Asianist Aesthetics in American Art after 1945 (2016) was awarded the International Publication Award of the College Art Association in 2020 and has since been published in English. Since 2021, she has been Professor of Transcultural Art Studies at the University of the Arts Bremen, where she previously conceived and directed the European research project GAMA. Gateway to Archives of Media Art (until 2009). She has also taught at the Zurich University of the Arts, Università IUAV Venice, Guangxi Arts Institute in Nanning, and the University of Hamburg. In 2011, she received the Terra Foundation Travel Grant for the Getty Research Institute Los Angeles. Since 2019, she has been co-editor of FKW. Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture and since 2024 co-speaker of the Working Group on Art Production and Art Theory in the Context of Global Migration (Ulmer Verein).

She is a member of the DFG research network Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents and the SNF research project Materialized Memories (in) the Landscape at the Zurich University of the Arts.

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  • Thinking with water – Ästhetiken des Relationalen, der Verschränkung und der Intra-Aktivität

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