JULIANE MARIE DEBEUSSCHER
PERSONAL DOCENTE, INVESTIGADOR O TCO.
HISTORIA DEL ARTE
FACULTAD DE GEOGRAFÍA E HISTORIA
(+34) 91398-
Academic Information
She hols a PhD in Art History from the University of Barcelona and the University of Grenoble Alpes (France) (international joint supervision) with the doctoral thesis ‘The Circulation of Unofficial Art from Central Europe across the Iron Curtain: Exhibitions and Transnational Networks between 1971 and 1981’ (2021). Her doctoral studies were funded by an FPI grant. She holds a Master 2 degree in Art History and Criticism (DEA) (2006) and a Master in Exhibition and Cultural Mediation Professions, specialized in contemporary art (2004) both from the University Rennes 2, France. She has taken part in the Independent Studies Program offered by the MACBA-Barcelona (2008-2009).
Academic positions held
In 2026, she has joined the Department of Art History at UNED as a Ramón y Cajal researcher. Previously, she was a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Art History at the UAM (2022-2024) and an FPI predoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona (2016-2020). She has lectured as a professor and an invited researcher at these universities, as well as at Duke University in Madrid and the University of Grenoble Alpes.
Research activity
Her research interests cover the contemporary period (20th and 21st centuries), with a special focus on the history of exhibitions and transnational circulations in Europe during the Cold War. She explores artistic and exhibition practices in socialist and post-socialist contexts in central and eastern Europe (particularly Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary), and their reception and intersections with practices developed in Southern Europe and, occasionally, America. More recently, she has opened lines of research on artists' magazines and publications, and on cultural policies and experiences of decentralization in art and exhibition curating in the 1970s and 1980s.
Participation in research projects:
Since 2015, she has participated in several nationally and internationally funded research projects. In addition, she has received funding for individual research projects, including Ramón y Cajal (UNED, since 2026) and Juan de la Cierva grants (UAM, 2022-2024), a Paris x Rome Fellowship (Max Planck Stiftung/Max Weber Stiftung, 2021), and an FPI grant (University of Barcelona, 2016-2020). -2024), a Paris x Rome Fellowship (Max Planck Stiftung/Max Weber Stiftung, 2021), and an FPI grant (University of Barcelona, 2016-2020). He has conducted research stays at the Centre for Modern Art & Theory at Masaryk University in Brno, the Bibliotheca Hertizana (Rome), the Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art (Paris), the MACBA Study and Documentation Center (Barcelona), and the Open Society Archive (Budapest).
Teaching
Asignaturas de Grado:
- 6702404- - TRABAJO FIN DE GRADO (Hª DEL ARTE)
Asignaturas de Máster:
- 27030259 - MUSEOS, INVESTIGACIÓN E HISTORIA DEL ARTE