2025-04-09: Presentation - Dr Simone Wille

Mobility, artistic exchange, cultural policies and diplomacy between south asia and the socialist world if east/central europe, 1947–1989

 

In this presentation Dr Simone Wille will talk about her experience of carrying out long-term research in Central Europe and South Asia, which she will visualise through a case study about a single artists’ journey from South Asia to Central Europe.

Simone Wille is Elise Richter Fellow at the Institute of Art History, University of Innsbruck. She currently directs the research project South Asia in Central Europe: The Mobility of Artists and Art Works between 1947 and 1989, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (V880-G). Dr Wille is an art historian of 20th-century modernist and contemporary art, working at the interfaces of transnational modernism, mobility studies, and historical transition. Her research focuses in particular on historic and artistic entanglements and cultural mobility between South and West Asia and Europe in the 20th century. She thereby looks at decolonisation and the way this has co-produced the larger art world. 

Institute of Art History, University of Warsaw
Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28
9.04.2025 (Wednesday)
11:30–13:00
BUW (Old Library), room 105
Contact: Dr hab. prof. ucz. Gabriela Świtek,
g.switek@uw.edu.pl