Viola Vahrson

Viola Vahrson is a Professor of Art and Visual Studies at Hochschule Düsseldorf's Peter Behrens School of Arts since 2016. Her academic career spans multiple institutions including the University of Hildesheim and Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck.

• Education: Studied Art History, Philosophy, and Slavic Literatures at Freie Universität Berlin
• PhD: 2004 on the Radicalism of Repetition in Contemporary Art

Her research focuses on 20th and 21st-century art, exhibition theory, and museum historiography. She has led numerous international interdisciplinary projects like Gegenwelten and ESCAPE, collaborating across institutions in Germany, Austria, and beyond.

Recent publications emphasize spatial-temporal art analysis, cross-disciplinary museum practices, and philosophical intersections in visual culture. She currently teaches at Hochschule Düsseldorf in Düsseldorf, Germany, with editorial contributions to significant art theoretical works.