Burcu Dogramaci is a professor of art history and Director of the Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Her research areas are modern and contemporary art with a focus on exile, migration, and flight; photography; architecture; textile; fashion; and live art. She was the principal investigator (PI) of the ERC Consolidator Project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and Exile (METROMOD) (2017– 2023, https://metromod.net). She is currently working on a book with the working title Island Exile, which is dedicated to the concept of “exîle,” researching artists and intellectuals who sought refuge on islands in and on the threshold of Europe since 1933. Together with Fabienne Liptay and Seraina Winzeler, she is preparing an issue of the journal Repérages dedicated to the work of Isa Hesse-Rabinovitch. Selected recent publications include London Exile: Metropolis, Modernity, and Artistic Migration (Leuven University Press, 2025; first published in German with Wallstein Press, 2024) and Grenze|Granica: Art on the German- Polish Border after 1990, with Marta Smolińska (Böhlau, 2024). She is co-editor of the Yearbook of Exile Studies and the Journal of Art History.