Klara Kemp-Welch

Klara Kemp-Welch works on intersections between modern and contemporary art and politics. She was educated at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and University College London, where her doctorate (2008) was supervised by Professor Briony Fer. She is the author of Antipolitics in Central European Art. Reticence as Dissidence under Post-Totalitarian Rule 1956-1989 (London: IB Tauris, 2014), Networking the Bloc. Experimental Art in Eastern Europe 1965-1989 (Cambridge Massachusetts and London, England: MIT Press, 2019) and co-editor of A Reader in East-Central European Modernism 1918-1956 with Beata Hock and Jonathan Owen (London: Courtauld Books Online, 2019). She is now writing a monograph on contemporary art, migration and mobility in the European Union.

• Modern and Contempory Art
• International Relations
• Migration and Mobility
• The European Union
• The Cold War
• East European art and politics
• Post-socialism 

2012-13

• AHRC Early Career Fellowship 

2012

• Igor Zabel Association Working Grant

2009-12

• Leverhulme Easly Career Fellowship