About - Luise Reitstätter

Luise Reitstätter is a cultural scientist with a background in communication studies (MA), sociology and cultural studies (PhD) and art science (ongoing habilitation). After working in the international art scene ­– i.e., for documenta 12 and the Austrian Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 2008 and 2009 – she shifted her work focus to academia. Her transdisciplinary research and teaching deals with practices of modern and contemporary art, museum and exhibition studies as well as empirical methods in social research. Currently, she works as the Head of the Laboratory for Cognitive Research (CReA) at the Department of Art History at the University of Vienna.

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Luise Reitstätter
Photo: (c) Eva Würdinger