Team
The team consists of the principle investigator, five research associates, two associated scholars and two student assistants. In addition, guest researchers are invited to join our team as international fellows.

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Student Assistant
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119b, Hauptgebäude
Research interests
- Difficult Heritage
- Colonial Imagery and Advertising
- Postcolonial Studies
- Critical Whiteness Studies

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119b, Hauptgebäude
Telephone: +49 40 42838 4331
Research interests
- Colonial monuments of the German Empire
- Difficult Heritage
- German colonialism in satire and caricature

Research Associate
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119b, Hauptgebäude
Telephone: +49 40 42838 4331
Research interests
- The 19th century
- Modern and contemporary art with a focus on Brazilian art
- Art in public space, urbanism, spatial theory
- Cultural heritage, Difficult Heritage

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Principal Investigator
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 111, Westflügel
Telephone: +49 40 42838-6225
Fax: +49 40 42838-6279
Research interests
- Art of the early modern era and late Middle Ages
- the double coding and resemanticization of signs, transcultural processes of negotiation in visual cultures
- the history of art conceived as entangled histories
- art of the 19th and 20th centuries in Ibero-America and Spain
- the history of photography
- Difficult Heritage
- visual scepticism

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Student Assistant
Edmund-Siemers-Alee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119b, Hauptgebäude
Research interests
- Difficult Heritage
- Iconoclasm, Aesthetic Interventions and Protest Art
- Contemporary Art
- Postcolonial Studies

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119c, Hauptgebäude
Telephone: +49 40 42838 4330
Research interests
- Contemporary forms of artistic intervention
- Critical exhibition theory and practice
- Difficult Heritage
- History and theory of photography

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Associated Scholar
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 102, Westflügel
Telephone: +49 40 2395-28131
Research interests
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- History and Theory of Photography
- Exhibition History
- Gender, Queer and Postcolonial Studies

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119b, Hauptgebäude
Telephone: +49 40 42838 4331
Research interests
- Modern and contemporary art with a special focus on Mexican and US-American art of the 20th century
- Theory and history of photography
- Transcultural and intermedial entanglements
- Gender and postcolonial studies
- Difficult Heritage

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
Room: 119c, Hauptgebäude
Telephone: +49 40 42838 4330
Research interests
- The political dimensions of visual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Animal imagery around 1900
- Popular image media around 1900
- Visual culture studies
- Cultural heritage, Difficult Heritage

Photo: P. Feuerböther
Associated Scholar
Freie Universität Berlin
Koserstr. 20
14195 Berlin
Room: A 154
Email: yuning.teng"AT"fu-berlin.de
Research interests
- Political Iconography
- Urban Landscape
- Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
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