Beáta Hock, Ph.D.

Käthe-Leichter Guest Professor

Beáta Hock, Ph.D. is currently Senior Researcher of the department "Entanglements and Globalisation" at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig. Her areas of research and teaching include East-Central European art and art history, feminist cultural theory, and the cultural dimensions of the global Cold War. These subjects have been addressed in Hock's monograph Gendered Creative Options and Social Voices (Stuttgart, 2013) and in Doing Culture under Socialism: Actors, Events, and Interconnections (Comparativ, no. 4), a journal issue she edited in 2014. The perspectives of global history generally inform Ms. Hock's research output on the art and cultural history of Eastern Europe, including the co-edited volume Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present, 2018).

In the academic year 2015-16 she was visiting professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. From 2022 she is project lead of Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Since, a joint "Connecting Art Histories" Travelling Seminar Series of the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Beata also occasionally works as independent curator; her latest exhibition Left Performance Histories was on view in Berlin's nGbK in 2018; a chapter of the show focused on artists who, in their performances, endeavored to bypass socially approved forms of gendered identity, sexuality, and standards of beauty.