• Studied art history, psychology, education and cultural gender studies

• 2004 - 2006 PhD scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group "Identity and Difference. Gender constructions and interculturality" at the University of Trier

• 2009 - 2019 Research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg

• 2012 PhD at the University of Oldenburg with a thesis on artistic negotiations of cultural difference in the art of the Federal Republic of Germany (1960 - 1990)

• Visiting professorships for art studies and gender studies (summer semester 2018 University of Konstanz, winter semester 2019/20 University of Vienna)

• Since August 2021 Teaching staff for special tasks at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg (permanent)

• Art and visual culture of the 19th - 21st century
• Post/decolonial studies and transculturality
• Gender studies and queerfeminist art studies
• Artistic myth research
• Cultures of remembrance, artistic approaches to history

Monograph:

After Primitivism? Artistic Negotiations of Cultural Difference in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960–1990. A Postcolonial Reinterpretation. Bielefeld: transcript 2015.

Edited works:

With Joachim Zeller: Colonial Visual Worlds and Decolonial Arts. German Colonial Rule in Visual Culture. Contributions to a Postcolonial Art History. Berlin: Metropol Verlag (forthcoming).

With Liesbeth Minnaard: Positionings. Critical Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Art and Literature // Positionierungen. Critical Responses to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ in Art and Literature. Issue 66 of FKW // Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. September 2019, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/78

With Anja Herrmann: Visual Fat Studies. Issue 62 of FKW // Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. August 2017, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/74

Co-authored with Kerstin Brandes: Germany (post)colonial? Visual Cultures of Memory and Interwoven Stories. Issue 59 of FKW // Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. January 2016, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/69

With Angelika Bartl, Josch Hoenes and Patricia Mühr: Seeing – Power – Knowledge. ReSaVoir. Images at the Intersection of Culture, Politics and Memory. Bielefeld: transcript 2011.

Collective editorship of the Research Training Group ‘Identity and Difference: Ethnicity and Gender. (Post-)Colonial Negotiations in History, Art and Media’. Cologne: Böhlau 2005.

Contributions to journals, anthologies and catalogues:

‘Unlearning Imperialism.’ German colonialism in contemporary art. In: Ibid. and Joachim Zeller (eds.): Colonial Visual Worlds and Decolonial Arts. German Colonial Rule in Visual Culture. Contributions to a Postcolonial Art History. Berlin: Metropol Verlag 2026 (forthcoming).

With Alexander Henschel: ‘Britsch and Africa – On the Primitivism of a Foundational Theory in Art Education’ (EN/DE). In: Carmen Mörsch, Nora Landkammer and Cat Martins (eds.): Art/Educational Primitivisms: Studies on a Transnational Dispositif. Munich: kopaed 2026 (forthcoming)

Inheriting an ‘Africa Room’, decolonising lived history – the photobook *Das Erbe* (2020) by Anne Schönharting. In: Silke Förschler and Astrid Schönhagen (eds.): Trophäen. Stagings of the Hunt in Living and Exhibition Spaces. Bielefeld: transcript 2025, pp. 328–349.

Artistic Memories of History(ies) – Reflections on historical knowledge production and transcultural connections. In: Museumsquartier der Stadt Osnabrück (eds.): #nichtmuedewerden – Felix Nussbaum and artistic resistance today. Cologne: Wienand Verlag, 2025, pp. 45–51.

Spaces of Imagination of the Other in German Expressionism. In: Julia Carrasco and Frieder Hepp (eds.): The Invention of the Other in Art. Exhibition catalogue of the Kurpfälzisches Museum, Heidelberg. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2024, pp. 122–129.

Artistically Juxtaposed (Hi)stories: Hiwa K’s View from Above as a Multidirectional Memory Practice. In: Catherine Bublatzky, Burcu Dogramaci, Kerstin Pinther and Mona Schieren (eds.): Entangled Histories of Art and Migration. Theories , Sites and Research Methods. Bristol: INTELLECT 2024, pp. 15–26.

Taking Up Space. In: Ngozi Schommers. Tracings of Time and Space. Edited by Bukola Oyebode. Amsterdam Lagos: TSA Ideas Lab 2023, pp. 31–33.

Tracing the story of an impostor. In: Catalogue Alex Wissel, Rheingold (forthcoming 2023).

The Concept of the Contact Zone. In: Exhibition catalogue *Beyond Homogeneity*. Edited by Nicole Griese-Kroner and Alejandro Perdomo Daniels. Syker Vorwerk. Centre for Contemporary Art 2022, pp. 104–110.

Art. In: Anja Herrmann et al. (eds.): Fat Studies. A Glossary. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 185–188. (Open Access)

With Liesbeth Minnaard: Introduction. Positionings. Critical Responses to the ‘Refugee Crisis’ // Introduction. Positionings. Critical Responses to the “Refugee Crisis” in Art and Literature. In: ibid. (eds.): FKW//Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Issue 66, September 2019, pp. 5–16.

Text on the artistic edition: Hannimari Jokinen, Greener Pastures (2015–2019). In: FKW//Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Issue 66, September 2019.

‘German’ colonial history as a theme in postcolonial art. In: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and Joachim Zeller (eds.): Postcolonial Germany. The End and Aftermath of Germany’s Quest for World Power. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2018, pp. 432–453.

Nothing Happening? (Catalogue text) In: Exhibition catalogue: Norbert Bauer. Nothing Happening. Bremen: OpenSpace Edition, Bremen 2018, unpaginated, and online: www.norbert-bauer.com/texte/nichts-passiert/

Feminism, Postcolonialism and Contemporary Art. In: Exhibition catalogue: Ayse Erkmen and Mona Hatoum. Displacements / Entortungen. Museum of Fine Art, Leipzig. Edited by Frédèric Bussmann. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2017, pp. 141–157.

Fat Dancing – What’s There to Lose? A Personal Experiment. Text accompanying the artistic edition by Doris Uhlig. In: FKW // Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. Issue 62, August 2017, pp. 88–94.

First Invited, Then Photographed: Images of Refugees in Museums and Other Educational Institutions. In: Maren Ziese and Caroline Gritschke (eds.): Refugees and Cultural Education. Formats and Concepts for a New Field of Practice. Bielefeld: transcript 2016, pp. 217–224.

Postcolonial Reinterpretations of Artistic Works. In: Bildpunkt. Journal of the IG Bildende Kunst. Summer 2016, No. 39, pp. 4–7. Available online at www.igbildendekunst.at/bildpunkt/2016/andere-in-der-ferne/wienand.htm

With Kerstin Brandes: Germany (post)colonial? Visual cultures of remembrance and interwoven histories. An introduction. In: FKW//Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Issue 59, 2016, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw

I like America and America likes me: Joseph Beuys’ self-staging as a shaman and Native American in the context of German memory culture. In: FKW//Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture, Issue 59, 2016.

White self-stylisation as the ‘Other’ and/or an attempt at solidarity? A postcolonial re-reading of Wolf Vostell’s collage ‘Die Fluxisten sind…’ (1980). In: Anna Greve (ed.): Whiteness and Art. Yearbook of the Guernica Society, Vol. 17. Göttingen: V+R Uni Press 2015, pp. 87–100.

What Must Be Preserved. Ferdinand Pettrich’s Native Americans – Images of Masculinity and Femininity in the 19th Century. In: Tecumseh, Keokuk, Black Hawk. Portraits of Native Americans in an Era of Treaties and Displacement. Exhibition catalogue of the Dresden State Art Collection. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche 2013, pp. 158–164.

New Guinea – A Projection Critical of Civilisation. In: Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel (eds.): Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois. Comrades and Contemporaries. The 1970s. Cologne: Walther König 2011, pp. 162–169.

Together with Angelika Bartl, Kerstin Brandes, Josch Hoenes and Patricia Mühr: Introduction. In: Ibid. (eds.): Seeing – Power – Knowledge. ReSaVoir. Images at the Intersection of Culture, Politics and Memory. Bielefeld: transcript 2011, pp. 11–27.

What am I actually allowed to say anymore? Reflections on a non-normative and non-racist art education practice. In: Carmen Mörsch (ed.): Art Education. Between Critical Practice and Service Provision. Berlin, Zurich: diaphanes 2009, pp. 125–144.

New Guinea. In: Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel (eds.): Sigmar Polke: We, the Petit Bourgeois! Contemporaries. The 1970s. Cologne: Walther König 2009, pp. 146–153.

If looks could kill. Kea Wienand and Shahram Entekhabi. In: Shahram Entekhabi (ed.): One Person’s Trash is another Person’s Treasure. In the ‘the book by’ series published by Fine Arts Unternehmen Books AG. Lugano 2008.

‘It’s all about modern art; we don’t fit in there.’ Report on a documenta 12 art education project with a group of Russian-German women. In: The Thing Hamburg. www.thing-hamburg.de. 2008.

Primitivist Fantasies: ‘The East’ – ‘the Indian’ – ‘the Healing’. Joseph Beuys meets a coyote. In: do not exist. europe, woman, digital medium. Volume 4 of the series ‘labor: theorie’, edited by thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen: thealit 2008.

‘If looks could kill …’ Stagings of migrant masculinity. Shahram Entekhabi in conversation with Kea Wienand. In: Kritische Berichte. Journal of Art and Cultural Studies. Issue 4/2007, pp. 61–64.

Gender – Memory. A summary. In: Gender Memory. Representations of Memory, Remembrance and Gender. FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 39. 1/2005, pp. 133–140.

Functions of Visual Representations of Otherness – Reflections from a Gender-Theoretical and Postcolonial Perspective. In: Timo Luks et al. (eds.): Negotiations with the Present. Social Science Debates on Power, Domination and Violence. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2005, pp. 203–214.

Together with Denise Daum, Andrea Geier and Iulia Patrut: Introduction. In: Research Training Group on Identity and Difference (eds.): Ethnicity and Gender. (Post-)Colonial Negotiations in History, Art and the Media. Cologne: böhlau 2005, pp. 3–20.

With Jose Presmanes: A Pleasant Flight. In: Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition ‘German Open. Contemporary Art in Germany’ at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz 2000.

Reviews:

Review of: Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius: Images of the Murder of the Jews. An Annotated Survey of Painting and Drawing in Germany from 1945 to the Auschwitz Trials. Marburg: Jonas Verlag 2014. In: Feministische Studien, vol. 33, no. 2, November 2015, pp. 332–334.

Review of: Stefan Horlacher (ed.): ‘When is a woman a woman?’ ‘When is a man a man?’. Constructions of gender from antiquity to the 21st century. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010. In: Katharina Hottmann (ed.): Lied Singing: Studies on the Performance History of the Lied. Hildesheim: Olms 2013 (Yearbook of Music and Gender 6), pp. 180–182.

Co-authored with Melanie Ulz: Review of Evelyn Annuß (ed.): Stagings Made in Namibia. Postcolonial Photography. Berlin 2009. In: Journal of Media Studies, March 2010, zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/buchbesprechung/annuss-stagings-made-namibia

With Melanie Ulz: Review of Klaus von Beyme: The Fascination of the Exotic. Exoticism, Racism and Sexism in Art. Munich 2007. In: FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 47, December 2009, pp. 86–89.

Co-authored with Patricia Mühr: On Bracketing. A report on the 7th Conference of Women Art Historians, 26–29 September 2002 in Berlin. In: FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 35, June 2003, pp. 75–77.

Miscellaneous:

Introduction to Section III: Visual Politics. In: Bauer, Robin; de Silva, Adrian and Utan Schirmer (eds.): On Frogs, Unicorns and Butterflies. Trans*_queer Realities and Visual Politics. Writings by Josch Hoenes (1972–2019). Esch-sur-Alzette: Melusina Press 2023, pp. 129–134. PDF document available here.

Does Joseph Beuys Still Promise Healing? In: diskus. Frankfurt Student Journal, 27 August 2021. (Open Access)

Together with Silke Förschler, Kerstin Schankweiler and Melanie Ulz: Obituary for Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff. In: FKW//Journal of Gender Studies and Visual Culture. Issue 54, June 2013, http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/article/view/14/11

Knowledge from National Interstices. A project involving Russian-German women living in Kassel and the art education programme at documenta 12. One-off brochure published as part of documenta 12. Kassel 2007 and available as a PDF document.

• Since 2013 Editor of the online journal FKW// Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, www.fkw-journal.de

• Member of the Gender Studies Association (Gender e.V.)

• Since 2015 Member of the working group "Art production and art theory in the context of global migration" of the Ulmer Verein

• Member of the DFG network since 2018: "Intertwined Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Actors"