is professor of modern and contemporary Art at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include museum theory and history, collection and exhibition history, transcultural art history, modernist art, primitivism, reception of non-European art, copy and original, art in public spaces, and photography and contemporary art in African countries. She is member of the research network Multiple Artistic Mobilities – Travelling artists from/to African Countries and European German-Speaking Countries (MAM).

Contact: Baerbel.Kuester@khist.uzh.ch