is Professor of Contemporary Aesthetics at the State University of Music and Performing Arts, Stuttgart. There she is, together with others, creating the “Campus Gegenwart.” She comes from the fields of philosophy and the visual arts and was Assistant Professor for Theory of Design/ Aesthetic Theory and Gender Theory at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2011 to 2018, where she instigated the research project “Autonomy and Functionalization.” Among her books are Die Evidenz der Kunst (2007), Zweck und Zweckfreiheit. Zum Funktionswandel der Künste im 21. Jahrhundert (2019). She is co-editor of the series Ästhetiken X.O—Zeitgenössiche Konturen ästhetischen Denkens.