received her academic training in History of Art, Philosophy und Literary Studies in London, Heidelberg und Berlin. She received her PhD from Humboldt University in 1999. Currently she is head of a project in the DFG-Research Unit »Media and Mimesis« at the Bauhaus University, Weimar. Her research and publications concern phenomena of the „Real“ in contemporary art, art and questions of agency, practices and material interactions in 15th century and the emergence of the early still-life from book illumination.