Other Activities

Exhibitions Curated:

“The Heritage of the Russian Avant-Garde: Vladimir Sterligov and his School,” Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, April 2007 – May 2008

“Organic Abstraction: The Visual Power of Nature,” International University Bremen, May 2002

Permanent Exhibition of 20th-Century American Art at the Scott Gallery, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, 2000-2001

“Colors and Words: Chromolithography in Late Imperial and Early Soviet Russia,” Los Angeles: Institute of Modern Russian Culture, 1994

Organization of Conferences and Conference Sessions of Professional Organizations:

Digital Abstraction at the Interface between Electronic Media Arts and Data Visualization, International Conference, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, May 2015 (together with Birgit Mersmann)

Grenzüberschreitungen: Marianne Werefkin und die kosmopolitischen Künstlerinnen in ihrem Umfeld / Crossing Borders: Marianne Werefkin and the Cosmopolitan Women Artists in her Circle, International Conference, Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, September 2014 (together with Tanja Malycheva)

Session “Utopias of Abstract Art,” Fourth Bi-Annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland, August 2014

Avant-Garde Networks and Cultural Exchange between Germany and its Eastern Neighbors, 1910-1930, International Workshop, Jacobs University, Bremen, October 2013

100 Years of Abstract Art: Theory and Practice, International Conference, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, May 2013

Session “Interrelations between Theory, Technology, and New Media in Avant-Garde Practices,” Third Bi-Annual Conference of the European Network for Avant-garde and Modernism Studies, University of Kent, Canterbury, September 2012

The Lives of Form: Abstract Art and Nature, International Symposium, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Jacobs University, Bremen, August 2009 (together with Paul Crowther)

Session “Forging California Modernism: Central European Emigrés on the West Coast between 1920 and 1945,” Historians of German and Central European Art and Architecture, 97th Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Los Angeles, February 2009

Art before and after Ideology, Symposium, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, April 2008 (together with Nina Gourianova, Chicago)

Session “The Idea of Evolution in Literature and Art: How Darwin Shaped Literary Theory and Modernist Art History Writing,” 20th Annual Conference of the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Dactyl Foundation for the Arts and Humanities, New York, November 2006

Nähe & Ferne: Der Beitrag der russischen Kunst zur europäischen Moderne (Near and Far: The Contribution of Russian Art to European Modernism), Symposium, International University Bremen, Germany, August 2006 (together with Ada Raev, Berlin)

Art and Metaphysics in the Twentieth Century and Beyond, International Conference, International University Bremen, Germany, May 2006 (together with Paul Crowther and Ursula Frohne)

Session “Modern Insights: Artistic Strategies to Explore the Visible and Invisible around 1900”, 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Literature and Science, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, November 2005

Session “Other Narratives of Modernist Art”, 6th Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, October 2004

Session: “Medicine and Biology in Art and Literature”, 3rd European Conference of the Society of Literature and Science, Conversation: Enacting New Synergies in Arts and Sciences, University Paris 8 und Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, June 2004

Session “Biocentrism and Modernism,” 91st Annual Conference of the College Art Association, New York, February 2003 (together with Oliver A. I. Botar)

Session “Biological Metaphors, Smooth Flow, Icon Restoration: Scientific Ideals in Art and Design,” 16th Annual Conference of the Society of Literature and Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, October 2002

Discussion Forum “terra digitale – Neue Medien in Forschung und Lehre” (New Media in Research and Teaching), 7. KunsthistorikerInnen-Tagung, Berlin, September 2002 (together with Ingeborg Reichle)

Workshop on Biomorphic Modernism, International University Bremen, May – June 2002