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Mona Schieren

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Mona Schieren is co-director of the Institut Kunst- und Musikwissenschaften at University of the Arts Bremen and currently a guest lecturer at ZHdK Zürich.

 

She started researching on Lenore Tawney for her book on Agnes Martin:

Transkulturelle Übersetzung im Werk von Agnes Martin. Zur Konstruktion asianistischer Ästhetiken in der amerikanischen Kunst nach 1945, (Transcultural Translation in the Oeuvre of Agnes Martin. The Construction of Asianistic Aesthetics in American Art after 1945) Verlag Silke Schreiber, Munich 2016. Other topics of her publications and conference papers include Western and East Asian Modern and Contemporary Art, Transcultural Studies (US, Asia, Europe), Mediaart and –theory. Collectivity and Forms of Activism, Pratices of Animism, History of Bodywork:, e.g.: Kunsttopographien globaler Migration, edited together with Burcu Dogramaci et al. In: Themenheft der kritischen berichte, Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften 43/3 Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2015; Look at me! Celebrity Culture at The Venice Art Biennale, edited by Mona Schieren and Andrea Sick, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2011; Not Berlin and Not Shanghai. Art Practice on the Periphery, edited by Mona Schieren and Kirsten Einfeldt, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2009. Forthcoming: RE: BUNKER.  Erinnerungskulturen – Analogien – Technoide Mentalitäten, edited together with Katrin von Maltzahn,  ARGO books, Berlin 2019.

 

She is a member of the research network DFG Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents (2018–21) and founding member of RNTP – Research Network for Transcultural Practices in the Arts and Humanities, and the research group „Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie im Zeichen globaler Migration“
Ulmer Verein (since 2013).

 

Mona Schieren studied art history and philosophy in Hamburg and Nice, PhD at University Bremen. She was head of the research project iMediathek and since 2008 part of the EU-project GAMA. Gateway to Archives of Media Art, (2002-2009); lecturer at the Department of Cultural History, University of Hamburg and teaching at IUAV Venice. For Tecnobyblos, Servizi e Tecnologie per I Berni Culturali in Rome she developed the conception of the digitalisation of the art libraries in Italy meridional. She has curated numerous exhibitions on contemporary art such as Regarding Bunkers, Bunker „Valentin“ Bremen 2017; Traces D’Histoires, Galerie de l’Université de Bretagne, Brest 2017; “Look Between the Rain” Künstlerbücher zu Agnes Martin, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf 2016; DAZWISCHENTRETEN, Künstlerhaus Bremen, 2015; Not Berlin and not Shanghai, Guangxi Arts Institute, Nanning/China 2008; Josephine Meckseper, Gesellschaft für aktuelle Kunst GAK Bremen; 16/32. Computerkunst, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen 2007; Stadt – Rand – Fluss, Künstlerhaus Lothringer 13, Munich 2006; Videoparadiso. 2005 screenings at Württembergische Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Het Domein, Sittard; Neuer Aachener Kunstverein.