Julia Gelshorn

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Julia Gelshorn (* 1974 in Aachen ) is a German art historian .

Life

From 1994 to 1996 she studied art history, theater, film and television studies as well as Italian Romance studies at the University of Cologne and from 1996 to 2001 art history, theater studies and Italian language at the University of Bern . From 1997 to 1998 she received a one-year scholarship from the DAAD . In 2001 she obtained her licentiate in Bern . From 2001 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Chair for Modern and Modern Art at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern. From 2002 to 2003 she received a doctoral scholarship from the Hans-and-Renée-Müller-Meylan Foundation in Basel . From 2002 to 2005 she was a fellow at the DFG graduate college “Image Body Medium - An Anthropological Perspective” at the HfG Karlsruhe . After completing her doctorate in 2003 at the University of Bern (Lazarus Prize of the Philosophical-Historical Faculty for the dissertation Appropriation of Art History: Strategies of Repetition with Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke ), she received a habilitation scholarship from the Paul and Gertrud Hofer Wild Foundation in 2004 . From 2005 to 2010 she was a research assistant at the chair for modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich . From 2006 to 2008 she had a postdoctoral fellowship at the German Forum for Art History in Paris (project: "Education of the body - education of the eye. Grace as a social norm"). From 2008 to 2010 she represented the professorship for art studies and media theory at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe . From 2010 to 2014 she taught as a professor for “Contemporary Art History - Contemporary Art” at the Institute for Art History, University of Vienna . Since 2014 she has been teaching as a professor for contemporary art history at the University of Friborg . She lives in Zurich .

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