Eva-Maria Troelenberg

Eva-Maria Troelenberg is Professor of Transcultural Studies at the Institute of Art History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. Her research examines cross-cultural interactions through art, visual culture, and material objects.

• Cultural exchange in the modern Mediterranean
• Visual and material practices of migration
• Colonial/postcolonial historiography of Islamic art
• Museum theory and collection histories
• Object biographies and transcultural heritage

She leads the ERC-funded project MEDMACH (2023–2028), which rethinks Mediterranean history through infrastructures of movement and visual archives. Key awards include the ERC Consolidator Grant for this research.