Beáta Hock
Beáta Hock, Ph.D., is currently Senior Researcher of the department Entanglements and Globalisation at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe (GWZO), Leipzig. Her areas of research and teaching include East-Central European art and art history, feminist cultural theory, and the cultural dimensions of the global Cold War. These subjects have been addressed in Hock’s monograph Gendered Creative Options and Social Voices (Stuttgart, 2013) and in Doing Culture under Socialism: Actors, Events, and Interconnections (Comparativ, no. 4), a journal issue she edited in 2014. The perspectives of global history generally influence her research output on the art and cultural history of Eastern Europe, including the co-edited volume Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present (2018). Currently she is general editor of the four-volume compendium The Cultural History of the Avant-garde in Eastern Europe, a publication project in-progress of Brill.
In the academic year 2023-24 Beata is guest professor at the Institut für Kunst- un Bildgeschichte at the Humboldt University of Berlin, chairing the programme "East European Art History". In 2015–16 Beata was visiting professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; in the winter semester 2021/22 she was Käthe Leichter Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. From 2022 she is the project lead of Linking Art Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Since, a Travelling Seminar series jointly supported by the Getty Foundation and the Terra Foundation of American Art.
Beata also occasionally works as independent curator; her last co-curated exhibition Left Performance Histories was on view in Berlin’s nGbK in 2018. (2024)
Publications[edit]
- Nemtan és pablikart. Lehetséges értelmezési szempontok az utóbbi másfél évtized két müvészeti irányzatához [Women’s Art and Public Art: Interpretive Aspects for Recently Emerging Art Practices], Budapest: Praesens, 2005. (Hungarian)
- Praesens: Central European Contemporary Art Review 3(1): "Art & Ecology—Economy", 2006.
- Gendered Creative Options and Social Voices: Politics, Cinema and the Visual Arts in State-socialist and Post-socialist Hungary, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2013, 284 pp. TOC. Introduction. Publisher. (English)
- Comparativ 7(4): "Doing Culture Under State-Socialism: Actors, Events, and Interconnections" (editor), Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2014, 132 pp. Publisher. (English),(German)
- World Literature Studies 8(4): "Transcultural Icons of East Central Europe" (editor, with Matteo Colombi, Christine Gölz, and Stephan Krause), 2016. (English),(German)
- Left Performance Histories: Recollecting Artistic Practices in Eastern Europe (co-editor), Berlin: neue Gesellschaft für bildene Kunst (nGbK), 2018, 205 pp. Texts by Kata Benedek, Judit Bodor, David Crowley, Adam Czirak, Constanze Fritzsch, Astrid Hackel, Beata Hock, Jürgen Hohmuth, Roddy Hunter, Bojana Matejić, Andrej Mirčev, Angelika Richter, Elske Rosenfeld, Heike Roms, Branka Stipančić. TOC, Introduction. Publisher. Project website. Review: Bryzgel (CAA). (German)/(English)
- Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present (editor, with Anu Allas), Routledge, 2018, 248 pp. Publisher. (English)
- A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956 (editor, with Klara Kemp-Welch and Jonathan Owen), London: Courtauld Books Online, 2019. (English)
- Universal – International – Global. Art Historiographies of Socialist Eastern Europe (editor, with Antje Kempe and Marina Dmitrieva), Vienna/Cologne: Böhlau, 2023, 317 pp. TOC, Introduction. Review: Bátorová (Sešit). (English)
