Katrin Nahidi studied art history, German literature and history of the Middle East at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Since 2013 she is a doctoral candidate in the Institute for Art History, University of Bern and a team member of the Sinergia project Other Modernities: Patrimony and Practices of Visual Expression outside the West (funded by SNF). In her dissertation project she focuses on Saqqakhaneh a group of Iranian artists in the 1960s and 1970s, which had a very big impact on the development of modern art in Iran. Katrin is a member of IASH. Web

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