kira.vanlil@colorado.edu
303-492-1479
office: 412
website: http://kvlhome.wordpress.com/

I received my Ph.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich), Germany, in 1997. My main field of interest is Modern and Contemporary art.

I was a curator at the Hallen für Neue Kunst in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and an editor for ART, a German art magazine. I have also worked for the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany, as Head of Programs for the Associations of Friends.

Before coming to the US, I taught art history at Universität Hamburg, at Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and at Universität Zürich, as well as Humanities for the international Masters Program at Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg at at NIT (Northern Institute of Technology) in Hamburg-Harburg.

I have published on Contemporary Art, with an emphasis on Minimal Art and Arte Povera. Currently I am researching the neglected connections between Minimal Art and Arte Povera and the common concern of artists in Europe and the US. My dissertation was devoted to Otto Dix and the First World War, from which my main field of research has shifted towards war in contemporary art.