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Editorial Team

Cila BROSIUS is a Copenhagen-based contemporary art curator and artist advisor. Her research is focused on the history of Chinese contemporary art, the role of curators in internationalizing non-Western art, the effects of creative placemaking, and the use of cross-cultural exchange to develop curatorial methods in art institutions worldwide. She is currently applying for a PhD in Denmark and Germany.

Nora WÖLFING is an art historian and sinologist who works as curator, writer, and researcher with a specialization on contemporary art from China. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis about Science Fiction in the arts from the sinophone region at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research focus lies on transcultural aspects, feminism(s), technologies in art and literature-based art. Nora’s articles are published regularly in print and online magazines, she also writes artist portraits and catalogue essays.

Franziska KOCH is Senior Lecturer of Transcultural Studies and Art History at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf since April 2023, co-founder of ReNetMoCoCA, and leading editor of its blog. Her habilitation project about Nam June Paik and transcultural collaboration in Fluxus is supported by a grant from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation. She co-edited Negotiating Difference: Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context (2012) and is the author of Die ‘chinesische Avantgarde’ und das Dispositiv der Ausstellung (2016). She serves as editorial member of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect Publishers) and board member of the book series Contemporary East Asian Visual Cultures, Societies and Politics (Palgrave Macmillan). For the Trans-Atlantic Research Project “Worlding Public Cultures: the Arts and Social Innovation” (2019–2023; BMBF), she co-led Heidelberg University’s team, where she previously taught and researched as Assistant Professor of Global Art History (2009-2023).

Xuan MA is a Ph.D. candidate at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, supervised by Prof. dr. Eva-Maria Troelenberg (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf) and Dr. Franziska Koch (Heidelberg University). Xuan obtained her MA at the Department of History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London. Her current Ph.D. project “Permeable Borders: Examining Displacement in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Art” focuses on the cross-border encounters in Chinese art since the 1980s and explores how contemporary Chinese migrant artists have reinterpreted their displaced experiences to negotiate pluralistic identities and engender transcultural dialogues in the globalized world.

The editorial team welcomes blog contributions pertaining to the rubriques publication/exhibition reviews, announcements of (scholarly) events, job opportunities, etc. related with the field of modern and contemporary art. Please contact us at: mococa@web.de