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Christian Weikop is a Professor specializing in Modern Contemporary German Art at the Edinburgh College of Art, where he has published extensively in his field. He held the position of Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh from 2012 to 2017 and studied Art History and Theory at the University of Essex, completing his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2005. His experience includes working at the University of Sussex as a Visiting Lecturer and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, as well as co-editing a volume in the Oxford Critical Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Weikop founded the ECA Research Forum on German Visual Culture in 2011 and has focused his research on pre-1945 German art, notably Expressionism and Dada. His projects include organizing exhibitions and symposia, maintaining ongoing research partnerships with Tate and National Galleries Scotland, and preparing texts for forthcoming publications on major artists like Anselm Kiefer and Joseph Beuys. Christian has also supervised PhD students and contributed lectures and catalogues for prominent exhibitions, making a significant impact in the study of German Expressionist artists.
Edinburgh College of Art • Edinburgh, Scotland
Teaching and researching Modern Contemporary German Art.
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