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]
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, February 12, 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]
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