Editorial

Christian Huemer has been director of the Belvedere Research Center since 2017. He studied art history in Vienna, Paris, and New York, where he gained his doctorate with a thesis titled “Paris–Vienna: Modern Art Markets and the Transmission of Culture (1873–1937).” From 2008 to 2017, he headed the Collecting & Provenance department at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. His research focuses on the history of the international art market, French and Austrian Modernism, and digital art history. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the Brill series Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets.

Anna-Marie Kroupová is a PhD candidate in cultural heritage studies at the University of Vienna and a research associate at the Belvedere, Vienna. Her PhD project, supervised by Prof. Noémie Étienne, examines the lived experiences and artistic production of art students from the Global South in Czechoslovakia during the latter stages of the Cold War. She received her MA from the University of Vienna in 2021, winning the Sir Ernst Gombrich Talent Award for her thesis. She is also a cofounder and coeditor of the peer-reviewed Belvedere Research Journal.

Johanna Aufreiter has been a research associate and scientific project coordinator at the Belvedere Research Center since 2018. She is a committee member for The Art Museum in the Digital Age, the annual Belvedere conference, as well as coeditor of the Belvedere Research Journal. She studied art history and German philology at the University of Graz. She was a university assistant in Graz and Vienna, heading the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History at the University of Vienna from 2013 to 2017. Her research focuses on optical theories in the Middle Ages, empirical reception research, and digital art history.

Luisa Ziaja is an art historian, curator, university lecturer, and writer. She has been chief curator at the Belvedere since 2022, having previously been a curator of contemporary art since 2013. From 2006, she has been codirector of /ecm—educating/ curating/making, a postgraduate study program focused on exhibition theory and practice at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and, from 2023, has been a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. In her curatorial and discursive practice, she deals with the relationship between contemporary art, society, and politics (of history), as well as with the history and theory of exhibitions. Ziaja is the author and coeditor of numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies on contemporary art, curatorial practice, and art and exhibition theory, including the series curating: ausstellungstheorie & praxis published by Edition Angewandte.