Eva Kernbauer

Eva Kernbauer is a Professor of Art History at the University of Applied Arts Vienna since 2012 and currently serves as Vice President for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). She has held visiting scholar positions, including at Yale-NUS College (2023), and is a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (since 2023).

• Key roles: FWF Board of Trustees Advisor (2020–2024), Board of Trustees member at Albertina Museum (2020–2024), Jury member for Oskar Kokoschka Prize.
• Research focuses on anachrony in contemporary art, historiography, visual culture, and the intersections of art history with political and social discourse.

Her scholarly work spans art-historical analysis of eighteenth-century audience models, contemporary artistic practices interrogating temporality, and editorial leadership in series like Contact Zones (de Gruyter) and the Belvedere Research Journal. She has led third-party funded projects such as FWF Individual Project P 27877-G26 and the analysis of the Elisabethinen Convent’s portrait collection.

Notable lectures and symposia include presentations at Yale-NUS College, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, and workshops on topics like Anthropocene Temporalities and Artistic Historiography. Her 2022 book Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990 (Routledge) examines how contemporary art redefines historical consciousness through anachronism.