PhD Art History (since 2025)
Freie Universität Berlin 

Of Public Interest, Post-Master (2020-2022)
Department of Further Education in Architecture and Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm 

Art and Politics, Master of Arts (2019-2020)
Department of Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths University of London 

Architecture, Exchange (2017-2018)
School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, Beijing 

Kultur und Technik/Kunstwissenschaften, Bachelor of Arts (2015-2019)
Faculty I, Humanities and Educatuional Sciences, Technische Universität Berlin 

Grants and Scholarships 
2026 mobility grant Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft (Sydney)

2025/26 PhD scholarship Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung

2024/25 Berlin University Alliance: StuROPx Forschungsprojekt                                    

2021 exhibtion grant Berliner Projektfonds Urbane Praxis 

2018 scholarship DAAD (New York)

2017 scholarship Chinese Scholarship Council (Beijing) 

2017 scholarship Technische Universität Berlin (Beijing) 

WiSe 24/25 Denkmäler neu denken: Ideologie, Erzählungen und künstlerische Interventionen    

SoSe 24 Public Memory: Zukunft von Erinnerungsräumen neu denken

 

Artistic Intervention as Critical Practice: Monuments between Memory and Deconstruction (working title)

The project examines the transformative potential of artistic interventions at controversial monuments in public spaces. Monuments have traditionally served as central anchors of collective memory, convey political ideologies, and often reinforce hegemonic, Eurocentric, or authoritarian power structures. Against the backdrop of current postcolonial, feminist, and socially critical discourses, many of these monuments are increasingly coming under criticism because they silence marginalized voices and render suppressed historical chapters invisible. This project addresses this tension and views artistic interventions not merely as reactive commentaries, but as an independent, active form of memory politics that dynamizes and renegotiates fixed historical narratives in urban space. At the heart of the research is the question of how artistic strategies—ranging from temporary actions and performative reinterpretations to structural interventions—alter the perception and function of historical markers. The extent to which artistic counter-narratives can actually open up spaces for a multifaceted, pluralistic culture of remembrance and destabilize existing power structures—or whether they ultimately remain within established structures—is being critically examined.

Research Interests: 

• Contemporary Art    
• Monuments    
• Memory Culture  
• Decolonization   
• Intervention 
• Soft Powers and Cultural Policy      
• Institutional Critique    

Editor

Gegen/Öffentlichkeiten. Ästhetiken, Materialitäten und Praktiken des künstlerischen Intervenierens. Together with Birgit Eusterschulte, Henning Podulski, Andrea Schütte, Mimmi Woisnitza, Diaphanes [Nov. 2026]

Essays (selection)

Aus dem Inneren heraus. Kulturelle Produktion zwischen schimmeligen Strukturen und brüchigen Systemen. In: Drecksarbeit. Semantiken, Materialitäten und Praktiken ›entwerteter‹ Arbeit. (Ed) Mareen Heying et al., transcript [Dec. 2026]

Das Dagegen und das Daneben. Zur Ästhetik erinnerungspolitischer Interventionen im öffentlichen Raum. In: Gegen/Öffentlichkeiten. Ästhetiken, Materialitäten und Praktiken des künstlerischen Intervenierens. (Ed) Birgit Eusterschulte et at., Diaphanes [Nov. 2026]

Demokratisierung als intervenierende Praxis. Konfliktfelder in den bildenden Künsten in Westdeutschland, 1960er bis 1980er Jahre, in collaboration with Theresa Angenlahr, Norma Ladewig, Paul Nolte. In: Intervenierende Künste. Begriffe – Verfahren – Prozesse. (Ed) Karin Gludovatz, Mathias Warstat, Diaphanes 2026

Tipping the Balance. Artistic Approaches to Public Memory. In: Dynamics of the Intransitive. Undirected Interventions. (Ed) Grit Dommes et al., Diaphanes 2026

Gegenpositionen. Potenziale Künstlerischer Interventionen in denkmalpolitische Diskurse. In: Forschungsjournal Soziale Bewegungen: Kunst und Soziale Bewegungen, (Ed) Riccarda Dürre, Simon Teune, De Gruyter 2024 

Lectures/Talks/Presentations (selection)

(En)Countering Bismarck: Artistic Interventions and the Temporalities of Public Memory in Contemporary Germany. Panel: Prototyping Commemorative Art Practices for the Present. University Art Association of Canada, Concordia University, October 2026. 

Unmaking Unity: Artistic Historicization at Hamburg’s Bismarck Monument. Panel: Unstable Monuments. Nation, States, Spaces, and Conflicts in Public Sculpture, 1811-1947. Association for Art History Annual Conference, Cambridge University, April 2026.

Schieflagen der Erinnerung: Das Lueger-Denkmal als universitärer Interventionsraum. 3. Werkstattgespräch, AG Kunst am Bau, Technische Universität Dresden, May 2025. 

Monuments and Mythmaking: Rethinking the Future of Memory Spaces.  SFB Intervenierende Künste, Freie Universität Berlin, September 2024. 

After Contextualizing Controversy. Contextualisation as Curatorial Method. Collaborative World Building. Socially Engaged Art and Art Education, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, Wien. May 2023.  

Minimal Productions. Contemporary Dematerialization in Public Artworks. Vienna Research Week, Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Universität für Angewandte Kunst, October 2023.