.:Short Biography (in English)

Veronica Peselmann holds a position as research fellow and lecturer at the Department of Art History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany where she teaches Art History of modern and contemporary Art. 2019-2021 she was a Fellow at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, Art History Department (Fellowship funded by the Volkswagen Foundation). Her research focuses on the connection of art and the practices of material cultures. She inquires theories of artefacts, the history of Art History and its analytical concepts. She has published on the history of painting concepts (19th Century) and is currently working on a book on the relation of format, scale and handling. She studied Art History, Literature, History and Media Studies in Konstanz (Germany) and Warsaw (Poland) and received her PhD (Dr. Phil.) in Art History at the Freie Universität, Berlin (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer, Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen). In 2015/16 she was a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute/Los Angeles (funded by the GRI), annual theme: Art and Materialty.
Link to her recently published book Der Grund der Malerei, Materialität im Prozess bei Corot und Courbet, 2020; Reading sample (in German)