Claudia studied Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and earned her PhD from the Technische Universität Berlin. She has worked as a lecturer of art history, and as an independent researcher and curator in Bogotá and has held fellowships, among others, at the documenta archiv in Kassel and, at the Leibniz Universität in Hannover. Her research interests and publications focus on garden history, modern art, and the intersection of migration, exile and art from the late 19th to the middle of the 20th century.

Detours on the road/historiographic detours: Bogotá in the first half of the 20th century

At global dis:connect, Claudia is developing a project which focuses on case studies of some European, mostly German-speaking, artists and intellectuals who arrived in the first half of the 20^th century in Bogotá, a city that, unlike other South American destinations, was not a recipient of large migratory flows and was not very open or attractive to immigration. The project addresses their work and experiences, and analyses, with a decolonial approach, the relations between places conceived or considered as a ‘detour’ and hegemonic historiographical narratives.