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Maria-Katharina Lang is a senior researcher and curator at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializing in Mongolian Studies and artistic-scientific research. She leads the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) sponsored art-based research project Dispersed & Connected. Artistic Fragments along the Steppe and Silk Roads and the Art & Anthropology. Scientific-Artistic Research between Mongolia and Austria (EPU) project.
- Research Focus: Steppe and Silk Roads (historic and present BRI), infrastructures, mobility, artefact transfers, museum and collection histories (Mongolian/Soviet), anthropology of art/objects/memory.
- Projects: Dispersed & Connected, Art & Anthropology, Independence and Research Networks, Mongolian Ethnographica in European Museums.
She curated major exhibitions including Dust & Silk (Weltmuseum Wien, 2021/22), Steppe & Silk Roads (MARKK Hamburg, 2021), and Nomadic Artefacts (2016–2018). Since 2018, she serves as the Cultural Envoy of Mongolia in Austria. Her recent publications analyze railway projects, artefact transfers, and sacred landscapes in Mongolia, often in collaboration with Tsetsentsolmon Baatarnaran. She co-edits books and exhibition catalogues, blending curatorial and anthropological approaches.
