Ursula Ströbele

Portrait of Ursula Ströbele in a black top
Biography

Ursula Ströbele has been Professor of Art History with a focus on contemporary art at the HBK, Braunschweig, since October 2023. Previously, she had been a research associate at the Central Institute for Art History in Munich since 2019, where she headed the Study Center for Modern and Contemporary Art. In 2019 she was curatorial director of the Kunstverein Arnsberg. In 2021/22, together with Tina Sauerländer, she curated the AR exhibition »Augmented Species. Invasive Sculptures in Hybrid Ecologies, 2019/20 Hans Haacke. Art Nature Politics« (ZI Munich, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach). 2012-2018 she was a research assistant at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she co-founded the academic network »Theory of Sculpture«. In 2010, she completed her doctorate at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf on the sculpture recordings of the Royal Academy in Paris (1700-1730). In 2020, she was awarded her doctorate with the thesis »Erweiterung des Skulpturalen. Analysen und Theorien aktueller Grenzphänomene: Non-Human Living Sculptures seit den 1960er-Jahren. Hans Haacke und Pierre Huyghe«. Her current research interests include digital, time-based phenomena of the sculptural, art and (queer) ecologies, cross-sectional history of 20th century sculpture, infrastructures of modernity.