Klara Kemp-Welch

Klara Kemp-Welch is a British art historian and academic, specialising in modern and contemporary Eastern European art and the intersections of art and politics. Her work focuses on themes including modern and contemporary art, migration and mobility, international relations, the Cold War, Eastern European art and politics, post-socialism, and European Union dynamics

She served as Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and was appointed Head of Research Degrees at the Courtauld Institute of Art for the 2025–2028 term.[1]

In 2014, her publication Antipolitics in Central European Art is noted as a valued contribution to art history and praised for innovative theoretical approach.[2][3][4] Her further publication in 2018, Networking the Bloc, was also well received [5]

Her ongoing research investigates themes of migration, mobility, and border politics in Eastern European contemporary art, under the provisional title Free Movement?[6]

Early life and education

Kemp-Welch earned her PhD in History of Art in 2008, supervised by Professor Briony Fer, following earlier studies at University College London and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies.[7]

Before rising to her current position at the Courtauld, she previously taught at University College London, Camberwell (University of the Arts London), and the University of York.[8][9]

Publications

  • Special issue of ArtMargins: Artists' Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe (2012)[10]
  • Antipolitics in Central European Art: Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956–1989 (Bloomsbury Publishing, IB Tauris, 2014)[11]
  • Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981, (MIT Press, 12 February 2019; ISBN 9780262038300)[12]
  • Co-editor (with Beáta Hock and Jonathan Owen) of A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918–1956 (Courtauld Books Online, 2019)[13]

References

  1. ↑ "Professor Klara Kemp-Welch". The Courtauld. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Admin, Blog (20 August 2014). "Book Review: Antipolitics in Central European Art by Klara Kemp-Welch - LSE Review of Books". LSE Review of Books - the latest social science books reviewed by academics and experts. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  3. ↑ Cseh-Varga, Katalin (1 August 2018). "Non-Obedient Art in Socialism and Post-Socialism". Oxford Art Journal. 41 (2): 297–300. doi:10.1093/oxartj/kcy005. ISSN 0142-6540.
  4. ↑ Gurshtein, Ksenya (1 February 2016). "Dissecting Dissent and its Discontents". ARTMargins. 5 (1): 96–107. doi:10.1162/ARTM_r_00142. ISSN 2162-2574.
  5. ↑ Gatto, Stella (16 September 2020). "Book Review: Networking the Bloc: Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965–1981". InVisible Culture. doi:10.47761/494a02f6.dc6feeeb.
  6. ↑ "Public lecture - Klara Kemp-Welch". Estonian Academy of Arts. 30 September 2024. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "Klara Kemp-Welch". The Courtauld Institute of Art's Research Portal. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  8. ↑ "Resonances". resonances.artpool.hu. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  9. ↑ "Klara Kemp-Welch". Center for the Humanities. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  10. ↑ "Volume 1 Issue 2–3 | ARTMargins | MIT Press". direct.mit.edu. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  11. ↑ Kemp-Welch, Klara. Antipolitics in Central European Art. Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989.
  12. ↑ "Networking the Bloc". MIT Press. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
  13. ↑ "A Reader in East-Central-European Modernism 1918–1956". The Courtauld. Retrieved 8 September 2025.
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