Autor: Angela Stercken

Gabriele Genge is chairholder for Modern and Contemporary Art History and Art Theory at the Universität Duisburg-Essen. Her current research interests cover trans-cultural and postcolonial areas of the discipline with a specific focus on French Colonialism as well as African and African-American image theory, knowledge systems and epistemology. From 2017 to 2020 she supervised the DFG-research project »The Anachronic and the Present: Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Concepts of Temporality in the Black Atlantic«. Angela Stercken (Ph D), is senior researcher, curator and author. Her research fields lie in transcultural and postcolonial art history, the theory of image, time and space, in phenomena of transmediality and temporality in (maritime) spaces of transfer and migration, and modern and contemporary art in the transatlantic world. Lecture and granted research projects led her to the Universities of Düsseldorf, Munich and Duisburg-Essen, where she completed the research project »The Anachronic and the Present: Aesthetic Perception and Artistic Concepts of Temporality in the ›Black Atlantic‹«.