Beáta Hock
Beáta Hock, Ph.D. is 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. The perspectives of global history generally inform her research output on the art and cultural history of Eastern Europe.
In the academic year 2015–2016 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, funded by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art. She also occasionally works as independent curator; her latest exhibition Left Performance Histories was on view in Berlin’s NGbK in 2018. (2022)
Publications[edit]
- Books
- Nemtan és pablikart. Lehetséges értelmezési szempontok az utóbbi másfél évtized két müvészeti irányzatához [Women’s Art and Public Art: Interpretive Aspects for Recently Emerging Art Practices], Budapest: Praesens, 2005. (Hungarian)
- Gendered Creative Options and Social Voices: Politics, Cinema and the Visual Arts in State-socialist and Post-socialist Hungary, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013, 284 pp. TOC. Introduction. Publisher. (English)
- co-editor, Left Performance Histories: Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe, Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildene Kunst (nGbK), 2018, 205 pp. Text by Kata Benedek, Judit Bodor, David Crowley, Adam Czirak, Constanze Fritzsch, Astrid Hackel, Beata Hock, Jürgen Hohmuth, Roddy Hunter, Bojana Matejić, Andrej Mirčev, Angelika Richter, Elske Rosenfeld, Heike Roms, Branka Stipančić. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. Project website. Review: Bryzgel (CAA). (German)/(English)
- co-editor (with Klara Kemp-Welch and Jonathan Owen), A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956, London: Courtauld Books Online, 2019. (English)
- co-editor, Universal – International – Global. Art Historiographies of Socialist Eastern Europe, Vienna/Cologne: Böhlau, 2023, 317 pp. TOC, Introduction. Review: Bátorová (Sešit). (English)
