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Laura Bohnenblust is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna's Chair of Cultural Heritage Studies, within the Faculty of History and Cultural Studies. Her work focuses on modern/contemporary art, exhibition history (especially Latin America), intangible cultural heritage, migration in art, and postcolonial historiography. She holds a doctorate from the University of Bern and has held fellowships at the Transregional Academy in Buenos Aires (2017) and Mexico City (2019). Currently, she explores protest songs as intangible heritage, analyzing their role in knowledge transmission beyond material archives.
Education:
- Studies in Art History (University of Bern and University of Buenos Aires)
- German Literature (University of Bern)
- Doctorate from University of Bern (Swiss National Science Foundation-funded project on 20th-century exhibition mobility)
Research Interests: Her scholarship bridges art history with transregional mobility studies, postcolonial critique, and performance/installation art. Key themes include:
- Art's relationship with migration and geopolitical boundaries
- Non-material cultural heritage (e.g., protest songs, embodied memory)
- Postwar Latin American art networks and exhibition practices
- Microhistorical approaches to art historiography.
Publications Trends: Recent works emphasize Latin America's role in global modernism, exhibition as a medium of cultural transfer, and the intersection of art with migratory politics. Her 2025 monograph Arte Flotante establishes her as a leading voice in postwar Argentinian art analysis.
Awards/Grants:
- Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship (doctoral project)
- Transregional Academy Fellowships (2017, 2019)
Teaching/Advising: Taught at University of Zurich. Currently mentors students via her Vienna postdoctoral role (no listed advisees).
Labs/Projects: Leads current research on protest songs' cultural heritage significance. Previously curated off-space exhibitions in Bern and contributed to art-in-architecture projects in Switzerland.
