Kathrin Peters

Kathrin Peters is a Professor of History and Theory of Visual Culture at the Faculty of Design, University of the Arts Berlin, since 2014/15. She served as co-spokesperson for the DFG Research Training Group 'Knowledge of the Arts' (2015-2021) and currently manages the Institute for the History and Theory of Design. Her academic background includes communication design and media/art history, culminating in her 2007 PhD on media and knowledge history from Humboldt University Berlin.

Her research synthesizes

• Gender and media intersections
• Digital visual culture analysis
• Photography theory and history
• Critical design historiography
• University institutional critique

Recent article trends explore fluid materiality in art (2024), crisis in artistic education (2021), and decolonial knowledge production (2020-2023), often through collaborative and podcast formats.

She leads institutional roles including

• German Research Foundation Review Board member (2024–2028)
• Academic Senate of UdK Berlin (2023–2025)
• Chair of Standing Commission for Equal Opportunities (2019–2023)
• Advisory board member, Journal of Media Studies

and has organized fluidity-themed seminars (2023-2025) and zine culture exhibitions (2025).