Beáta Hock, Ph.D. is currently Senior Researcher of the “Entanglements and Globalisation” department 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 are 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 inform Ms. Hock’s 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).
In the academic year 2015–16 she was a visiting professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London; in the current semester she is a Käthe Leichter Visiting Professor in Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. Her courses introduce research methods in interdisciplinary Gender Studies, investigate gendered artistic practices in Central and South-Eastern Europe, as well as explore women as a special target group in the ideological battlefields of the global Cold War.
Beata also occasionally works as independent curator; her latest exhibition Left Performance Histories was held at Berlin’s nGbK in 2018.