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 and 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 and the 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.

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 Professor 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 coeditor of the peer-reviewed Belvedere Research Journal.

Luisa Ziaja is an art historian and serves as chief curator and head of collections at the Belvedere Museum Vienna. She is codirector of the postgraduate study program /ecm—educating, curating, making at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; a member of the University Council of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna; and part of expert juries and advisory boards. In her curatorial and discursive practice, she deals with the relationship between art, society, and politics (of history), as well as with the history and theory of museums and exhibitions. She is coeditor of the peer-reviewed Belvedere Research Journal and of numerous exhibition catalogs and anthologies, including the series curating: ausstellungstheorie & praxis published by Edition Angewandte.

Katarina Lozo has been assistant curator for contemporary art and assistant to the chief curator at the Belvedere since 2024. She completed her studies in art history at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig and, from 2013 onward, worked as an assistant curator and research associate at the Albertinum of the Dresden State Art Collections, where she realized numerous exhibitions in the field of modern and contemporary art. From 2019 to 2022, as curator of the Schenkung Sammlung Hoffmann at the Dresden State Art Collections, she conceived and coordinated exhibitions and a program.