Public Events, Exhibitions, Workshops (selected)
International conference: “(Un)mapping Infrastructures of Modern Art, IV: Infrastructures of supporting travels and exhibiting modernism transnationally (1940s–1990s),” together with Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster (University of Zurich) and Prof. Dr. Marta Smolińska (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań), Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań / National Museum of Art, Poznań / University of Zurich, October 8–10, 2025, https://khist.uzh.ch/de/institut/registration
KiöR program: Brunnen zu Denkmälern, University of Zurich, July 11, 2025.
Podcast: Collective Ear – Four Radio Plays for Deep Listeners. Episode I – Can you listen like a beginner?, by Barbara Preisig & Ronja Svaneborg, University of Zurich, June 26, 2025.
Guest lecture: Matisse and the Hungarian Fauves by Dr. Gergely Barki (Budapest), organized by Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster (University of Zurich), University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 73, Room RAK-E-8, April 29, 2025.
Workshop: Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Gesetz und Praxis: Kunsttransfer in der Schweiz, organized by Sina Knopf and Simone-Tamara Nold with the support of Viviane Maeder, University of Zurich, November 28–29, 2024.
Lecture: ‘Primitivism’ and its Discontents, Dr. Joshua Cohen (CUNY University, New York), organized by Bärbel Küster and Rosa Sancarlo, University of Zurich, May 14, 2024.
Conference: Methods and Media of the Absent/Present – Visual Approaches to Vodun and Vodou, organized by the SNSF research project “Conflict and Cooperation. Episteme and Methods Between Art History, Art, and Ethnology in the Performative Pictorial Practices of Vodun’ (Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster, Dr. Dora Imhof, Niklas Wolf, Stefanie Rubner, Berit Seidel), University of Zurich, September 14–15, 2023.
Workshop: Aktuelle Forschung aus dem Archiv des Kunsthauses Zürich, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, KOL-E-13 (Senate Room), March 24, 2023.
Symposium: Kunsthandel in der Schweiz: Aktuelle Forschungen, SIK-ISEA, Zollikerstrasse 32, 8032 Zurich, September 8–9, 2022.
Symposium: Looking Forward Looking Back. Artistic Itineraries across African and German-Speaking Countries, 1950–1980, organized by the International Research Group MAM – Multiple Artistic Mobilities, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich, December 16–17, 2021.
Workshop: Verzeichnetes Wissen. Herausforderungen, Grenzen und Zukunft des Catalogue raisonné (Recorded Knowledge: Challenges, Limits, and Future of the Catalogue Raisonné), organized by Victoria Fleury, Cornelia Müller, and Geraldine Wullschleger, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich, November 25–26, 2021.
Book presentation: Gestundete Zeit. 100 Jahre Hans Josephsohn, with Claudia Keller, Bärbel Küster, Karin Holzfeind, Jules Spinatsch, and Scheidegger & Spiess, Never Stop Reading, Zurich, May 20, 2021.
International conference: “Gestundete Zeit. 100 Jahre Hans Josephsohn”, jointly with Dr. Claudia Keller, Institute for Art History/Deutsches Seminar, Zurich University, 21-23 November 2019
International conference “Joint Ventures. Der künstlerische Zugriff auf Kunstsammlungen und Ausstellungsgeschichte”, jointly with Dr. Stefanie Stallschus and Dr. Iris Wien, Institute for Art History, Zurich University, 3-5 September 2019
Opening of the exhibition, “Inter.VIEW – Perspektiven auf aktuelle Fotografie in Senegal und Mali”, Galerie der Schule des Sehens, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, project with students, 10 May 2017
Lecture series: "Geschichten aus der Produktion. Künstler*innen im Gespräch" (Direkt Schmidt, Ricarda Roggen, Eva Grubinger, Via Lewandowsky, Mischa Kuball), jointly with Dr. Stefanie Stallschus, Technical UniversityBerlin, Institute for Art History and Historical Urban Studies, summer semester 2016 (LINK: https://www.kunstwissenschaft.tu-berlin.de/fileadmin/i2/Veranstaltungen/RVL/RVL_SoSe16/Plakat_RVL_SoSe2016.pdf)
Exhibition "Bamako - Dakar. Westafrikanische Fotografie heute", Stadthaus Ulm
18 September -23 November 2014
Review on Deutschlandfunk (LINK: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/westafrikanische-fotografie-der-gesellschaft.691.de.html?dram:article_id=298050)
Further stages of the exhibition: “Photographie contemporaine au Mali et au Sénégal: phénomènes urbains”, Village des Arts, Dakar, 3-22 January 2015
(Review, LINK: https://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201501061229.html)
“Portraits photographiques. Mythes et les traditions”, Institut Français Saint-Louis, Senegal, Galerie du Fleuve, 10. January - 7 February 2015
"Fotografie und Umwelt. Fotografen aus Bamako und Dakar"/”Photographie et l’environnement. Photographes contemporains de Dakar et de Bamako”, 3-22 January 2015
Workshop: "FOTOGRAFIE HEUTE – EINE ERFRAGTE GESCHICHTE. Bamako, Dakar, Stuttgart", International workshop, jointly with Dr. Marie-Hélène Gutberlet, State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, 18-21 November 2014 (LINK: http://www.abk-stuttgart.de/forschung/forschungs-projekte/kunstwissenschaften.html)