Ágnes Sebestyén is a research assistant since 2012 and a PhD student since 2013 at the Institute of Art History of the University of Bern. She is also a member of Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bern (GS@IASH) since 2014. Previously she worked as a museum’s educator at the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest. As scholarship holder of the Robert Bosch Foundation, she was curator and cultural manager at the Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden between 2009 and 2010. Hitherto she was a guest lecturer of history and theory of 20th century art at Partium University in Oradea (Romania). She graduated with MA degrees in art history and pedagogy from the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 2006. Her research interests include: theory and history of art and architecture at the turn of the 19th century, art and architecture as means of nation building in Eastern- and Central Europe, ephemeral architecture, exhibition design, art mediation, built environment education, participatory design.