Dr. Carla Guimarães Hermann
Research Associate
ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020 "Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt"
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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
Subproject 3: Reframing Difficult Heritage in Brazil
Vita
Studied art history at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and geography at the Universidade de São Paulo. 2012: Master’s thesis on Hélio Oiticica’s Bólides, entitled “A materialidade e o adverso nos Bólides de Hélio Oiticica” (Materiality and Adversity in Hélio Oiticica’s Bólides; published by Mundo Contemporâneo Metanoia, 2017). 2015: CAPES travel scholarship, research visit to Great Britain. 2014-2016: PhD scholarship from FAPERJ, Rio de Janeiro. 2016: PhD dissertation on panoramas, entitled: “O Rio de Janeiro para inglês ver: O panorama de Robert Burford em Londres, 1827” (A Rio de Janeiro for the English: Robert Burford’s London Panorama, 1827). 2012-2014: travel scholarship in the framework of the project “Unfolding Art History in Latin America”, a component of the Connecting Art Histories Initiative of the Getty Foundation. 2017-2019: lecturer with the department of art theory and art history at the Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.
2010-2023: associate with the IRPH Cultural Heritage Institute Rio de Janeiro, which addresses the stewardship of cultural heritage in public space. Since February 2023: research associate (postdoc) with Margit Kern on the project “Visual Scepticism: Towards an Aesthetics of Doubt” (ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020).
