BURCU DOGRAMACI

Burcu Dogramaci is a professor at the Institute for Art History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and co-director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre Dis:connectivity in processes of globalization (global dis:connect). 

 

Her research focuses on the areas of modern and contemporary global art, photography and architecture; design history and textile modernism; live art and performance. Her research on exile, migration and flight in past and present is dedicated to forms of migration / migration of forms, the concepts and aesthetics of an art production of exile, non-linear and anachronistic historiographies, transcultural networks, as well as the theories and methods of an art history in motion. 

 

She has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for her project METROMOD (2017-2023, https://metromod.net), which focused on six metropolises, including Bombay, Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Shanghai, as workplaces for émigré artists from Europe in the first half of the 20th century. 

 

Recent publications include Exil London: Metropolen, Moderne und künstlerische Emigration (Wallstein, 2024, Open Access; English translation Leuven University Press, 2025); Urban Exile: Theories, Methods, Research Practices (Intellect, 2023, edited with Ekaterina Aygün et al., Open Access); Handbook of Art and Global Migration Theories, Practices, and Challenges (Berlin, 2019, co-edited with Birgit Mersmann) and Fotografie der Performance: Live Art im Zeitalter ihrer Reproduzierbarkeit (Fink, 2018).

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