Employees

Sabine Flach has been a professor of modern and contemporary art at the University Graz since 2014. She is the deputy head of the Department of Arts and Musicology and head of the section "Center of Contemporary Art". From 2011-2013 she was a professor at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and from 2000-2010 head of the research department 'WissensKünste' at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin (ZfL). Her research and teaching focuses are on art and art theories of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, visual and media theories of the 20th and 21st centuries, epistemology and methodology of contemporary art, phenomenology and art; Art and concepts of nature; Aesthetics, aesthesis and media of embodiment.

Laura Koblischek, BA works as a research assistant to the head of the Contemporary Art department and as a student assistant at the Institute of Art and Music Studies. She is currently studying for a Master's degree in Art History at the University of Graz. In her master's thesis, she deals with gender issues in relation to the development of modernism in the 19th century. The thesis is entitled "The female avant-garde. Female art production at the beginning of modernism". In it, she focuses on individual female avant-garde artists such as Rosa Bonheur and their revolutionary artistic activities in the male-dominated art world.

Julia Robin works as Research Assistant to the Chair at the section "Center of Contemporary Art". She is currently a master's student in art history at the University of Graz. In addition, she is completing the additional qualification for Art- and Culture-Management at the University of Graz. Her art historical master's thesis deals with the medium of Painting of Minimal Art in New York around the middle of the 20^th century. In doing so, she researches the Paragone of the genres of Art and the subsequent art theoretical and aesthetic discourse of that time. Thereby Art History Writing itself gets critically questioned and the new- repositioning of the medium painting gets investigated.

Katrin Nahidi is a postdoctoral researcher for modern and contemporary art at the Department of Arts and Musicology at the University of Graz and an associated researcher at the section "Center for Contemporary Art". She studied art history, history and culture of the Middle East, and German literature at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich.
In 2021, Katrin Nahidi received her Ph.D. from Free University Berlin with her dissertation Modernism Revisited - Exhibitions, Cultural Politics, and Modernist Art Production in Iran. Research for her dissertation was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of the Sinergia project Other Modernities - Practices and Patrimony of Visual Expression Outside the West at the University of Bern and the Free University of Berlin (2013 - 2017).
In 2023, her monograph, The Cultural Politics of Art in Iran: Modernism, Exhibitions, and Art Production will be published by Cambridge University Press.
Katrin Nahidi's research interests include global art, historiography of modern art, non-Western modern and contemporary art production, art theories from the global South, and postcolonial art history.

Prof. Kristopher Holland, PhD:

• Associate professor of Art and Design Education and Fine arts at the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning at the University of Cincinnati
• Co-Director of the Strange Tools Research Lab at the Digital Futures research collaborative, University of Cincinnati
• Director of the Graduate program in Art & Design Education and the Director of the Visual Arts & Design Education State Licensure for the College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning
• visiting professor at the University of Graz, Department of Arts and Musicology

University of Cincinnati
College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning
StrangeTools Lab