Mona Schieren

Mona Schieren is Art Historian and Professor of Transcultural Art Histories at the University of the Arts, Bremen. Topics of her research include transcultural studies in modern and contemporary art, fiber art, theory and history of body practices and performance studies, collectivity and forms of activism. Her book Transcultural Translation in the Oeuvre of Agnes Martin. The Construction of Asianistic Aesthetics in American Art after 1945, Munich 2016 (German) was recently awarded with the International Publication Prize of the Terra Foundation to be translated in English. She is the editor of RE: BUNKER. Erinnerungskulturen – Analogien – Technoide Mentalitäten, with Katrin v. Maltzahn, (2019); Look at me! Celebrity Culture at The Venice Art Biennale, with Andrea Sick (2011); She is a member of the editorial board of FKW journal for visual culture and gender studies and of the Research Group Art Production and Art Theory in the Age of Global Migration in Ulmer Verein für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften e.V.