Dr. Eva Bentcheva

• 2021-24 Postdoctoral Researcher and Managing Editor (ICI Berlin Press) for the international research project 'Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation', Heidelberg University
• 2023 Visiting Lecturer, 'Transcultural Positions in Museums and Exhibitions', Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf
• 2021 Visiting Lecturer, 'Participatory Art in a Transcultural Context', Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
• 2019-20 Postdoctoral Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University
• 2018-19 Goethe-Institute Research and Curatorial Fellow, Haus der Kunst, Munich
• 2017-18 Adjunct Researcher, Tate Research Centre: Asia, London
• 2012-18 Ph.D. in Art History with the dissertation 'The Cultural Politics of British South Asian Art, 1960s to the Present', SOAS, University of London
• 2013-14 Senior Teaching Fellow, 'Diaspora Contexts and Visual Cultures', SOAS, University of London
• 2012 M.A. History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London
• 2010 B.A. History and Theory of Art and Literature, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany

Stipendien und Auszeichnungen

• 2022 Publication Grant (for The Dancing Hands: The Life and Art of Prafulla Mohanti, 2025), Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University
• 2020-21 Research Continuation Award, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Yale University
• 2017 Early Career Award, Association of Southeast Asian Studies UK
• 2015 Bursary for Art History and Archaeology (PhD), Aida Sulayman Arif Foundation
• 2014 Scholarship for Modern and Contemporary Indian Art (PhD), Saraswati Dalmia Foundation
• 2013 Doctoral Fieldwork Research Award (India), School of Oriental and African Studies
• 2008 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), Award for Cultural Engagement
• 2007-10 Merit-Based Scholarship, Jacobs University Bremen

Monografien

• 2025 Cultural Politics and Live Art in Britain: Performing Transnationalisms. London: Bloomsbury Press, forthcoming. 
• 2025 Vietnamese Immigrating Garden: Worlding Participatory Art, Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, forthcoming.

Herausgeberschaften

• 2025 Lessons Learned? Transcultural Positions in Curating and Pedagogies, co-edited with Franziska Koch, Monica Juneja and Miriam Österreich, Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, forthcoming.
• 2025 Thinking Collectives / Collective Thinking, co-edited with Annie Jael Kwan and Ming Tiampo, Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, forthcoming.
• 2025 Worlding Global Art History through Teaching, co-edited with Birgit Hopfener, Franziska Koch, Miriam Österreich and Ming Tiampo, Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, forthcoming.
• 2022 “Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art.” Special issue, Southeast of Now: Directions in Modern and Contemporary Art 5, no. 1 (March), co-edited with Annie Jael Kwan and Roger Nelson, March.

Wissenschaftliche Aufsätze in Zeitschriften

• 2022 “Revisiting Three Kings (1979) and Sound Bags (1979) as Philippine Experimental Art of the 1970s.” Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art 6, no. 2 (October), pp. 187-194.
• 2022 “Immigrating Garden: An Interview with Tuan Mami.” Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art 5, no. 1 (March), pp. 223-229.
• 2022 “Fluxus Resonances in Southeast Asia.” Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art 5, no. 1 (March), pp. 33-68.
• 2019 “From L to E: Working with Archival Contingencies.” In Ctrl+P 3, (December): 26-35.
• 2019 “From Ephemeral Experiences to Lasting Legacies: Discourses on Experimental Art in the Philippines in the 1960s and 1970s.” In Tate Papers 32, (Autumn): n.p.
• 2019 “Conceptual Slippages: Reading Between the Lines of the Roberto Chabet Archive.” In ‘Archives’, special issue of Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art 3, no. 2 (November): 13-44.
• 2018 “On the Heels of Forgotten Histories: Review of Kilapsaw: Everything Must Go (2016) by Noel Ed De Leon, Kulay Labitigan and Lawrence Carlos.” Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art, 2, no. 1 (March): 205-219.
• 2014 “Who belongs in the New Art History? Exploring Cultural Boundaries in Sutapa Biswas’ Performance ‘Kali’ (1984).” SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research 6, (June): 3-26.
• 2012 “Bamako-London: A Collaborative Exhibition of Exchanges.” Africa Journal 82, no. 2 (May): 340-341.

Buchbeiträge

• 2023 "Delirium Ambulatorium, City Walks as Conceptual Mapping: from Hélio Oiticica to Rasheed Araeen and Lee Wen." In Elize Mazadiego (ed.), Charting Space: The Cartographies of Conceptual Art, Manchester: Manchester University Press: 242-263.
• 2021 “Performative Documentation in the Archive of Veronika Radulovic.” In Annette Bhagwati, Veronika Radulovic (eds.), Don’t Call It Art: Contemporary Art in Vietnam, 1993-1999,. Bielefeld: Kerber Verlag: 31-35.
• 2020 “Distinguishing Artistic Mobility from Diaspora through Philippine Art History.” In Patrick Flores and Loredana Paracciani-Pazzini (eds.), Interlaced Journeys: Diaspora and the Contemporary in Southeast Asia, Hong Kong: Osage Art Gallery Press: 36-62.
• 2020 “Conceptualism-Scepticism and Creative Cross-Pollinations in the Work of David Medalla.” In Nick Aikens, Susan Pui San Lok, Sophie Orlando (eds.), Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings. London and Eindhoven: University of the Arts London and Van Abbemuseum Press: 310-29.
• 2019 “Parallel Contemporaries: Archiving Contemporary Art from Southeast Asia in the British Context.” In Southeast Asia Performance Collection: Archive as Resistance and Network Building, London: Something Human / Live Art Development Agency: 9-14.

Interviews und Rezensionen

• 2024 “Immigrating Garden: An Interview with Tuan Mami.” Arts of the Working Class, issue 31.
• 2024 “Fluxus in the Philippines: Resonances and Translations.” Fluxus Global/Divers, Dortmund: Museum Ostwall
• 2022 “An Archive of Press Photography on Liberia. A Conversation on Compulsive Archiving.” November, The Whole Life: Archives and Reality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• 2021 “Life Stories and Archives: A Time of Flux.” Co-authored with Arnika Ahldag, Gulzat Egemberdieva and Ann Harezlak. October. The Whole Life: Archives and Reality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt
• 2020 “The Art of Healing: Adriana Varejao, Noel Ed De Leon, Khvay Samnang, Njideka Akunyili Crosby.” June, Haus der Kunst Blog
• 2020 “Sung Tieu’s Zugzwang: A Myriad of Meanings.” March. Haus der Kunst Blog
• 2020 “Review of Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures.” Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational
• 2016 “Summary Paper: Nora Taylor, ‘Sites of Memory: Performing Art History in Singapore and Vietnam.” July. Tate Research Centre: Asia
• 2014 “Interview with Keith Khan.” March. British South Asian Theatre Memories Project
• 2013 “Al Mawred Al Thaqafy: The Role of Cultural Institutions in Egypt.” Febraury. Culture + Conflict
• 2012 “Art Camping in Aleppo: Art Beyond Borders in Syria.” December. Culture + Conflict
• 2012 “Insight Palestina at Leeds University”. Co-authored with Shelley Harten. October. Culture + Conflict

Katalogbeiträge

• 2023 “Gehrenseestraße 1: Between the World of Architecture and Politics.” Sung Tieu: One Thousand Times, Winterthur: Kunst Museum Winterthur, Kunsthalle Nürnberg.
• 2022 “David Medalla’s Art of Transition.” David Medalla: Parables of Friendship, Bonner Kunstverein. Bolzano: Museion Foundation.
• 2022 “David Medalla: A Life and Legacy between the UK and the Philippines.” Connections through Culture: UK and Philippines, London: British Council.
• 2021 “Depositioning Documentary: The Video Works of Lizza May David.” Bahala Ka? [What Do I Know?], Kunstverein Hildesheim.
• 2021 “Social Mapping in the Works of Käthe Wenzel.” Käthe Wenzel: NYC on the Lamme, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth.  
• 2018 “Chasing Spectres and Remnants: Assemblage, Research and Re-Enactment in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art.” UnAuthorised Medium, ed. Kwan, A., Amsterdam: Framer Framed.  
• 2018 “At the Crossroad of Imagined Borders and Lived Experiences.” Diaspora: Exit, Exile, Exodus from Southeast Asia, ed. Parcciani-Pazzini, L., Chiang Mai: MAIIAM Museum of Contemporary Art.

• 2023 Talking Heads: Archival Echoes, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin, April - May
• 2020 Microcosmic Orbit, online performances by Noel Ed De Leon, Erika Tan, Pepe Dayaw, Tran Thu Tran, Bagri Foundation. July – September.
• 2020 Publicness, Humour and Parody, workshop and performance with Käthe Wenzel, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, 14 February.
• 2019 Archives in Residence: Southeast Asia Performance Collection, exhibition, co-curated with Annie Jael Kwan and Damian Lentini, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 28 June – 29 September.
• 2019 Feast of the Predator, performance by Noel Ed De Leon, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 4 July.
• 2019 Conspiracy of Files, performance by Ho Rui An, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 28 June.  
• 2019 The Buddhist Bug, performance by Anida Yoeu Ali, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 27 June.
• 2016 Corpografias, exhibition, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London, 18 June – 2 July.
• 2016 Kilapsaw: Everything Must Go, performance by Noel Ed De Leon, Kulay Labitigan and Lawrence Carlos, London Biennale, London, 16 June.
• 2015 It’s About Time! Contemporary Philippine Photography, exhibition, Philippine Embassy, London, 24 July – 30 July.
• 2015 Prafulla Mohanti and the Women of Nanpur, exhibition, Nehru Centre, London, 16 June – 26 June.
• 2014 Tokens of a Time Gone By: History as Art in the Work of Noel Ed De Leon, exhibition, Philippine Embassy, London, 18 June – 2 July.

Vorträge

• 2022 “Towards a ‘Worlded’ Public.” Dresden State Art Collections, 24 November.
• 2022 “Artist-Curatorial Collectives in Southeast Asia.” Thinking Collectively: What Kind of Collective Could We Be? Asia Forum and Worlding Public Cultures: Kassel, Documenta 15. 11 September.
• 2020 “Performing Transnationalisms in the Works of Sutapa Biswas, Prafulla Mohanti and Rasheed Araeen.” Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London. 24 January.
• 2018 “Contextualising ‘Experimentalism’ in Performance Art from Southeast Asia.” University of Roehampton, London. 5 December.
• 2018 “From Ephemeral Experiences to Lasting Legacies: Mapping Performance Art and Conceptualism in the Philippines.” Contemporary Art Seminar Series, SOAS. 3 May.
• 2017 “Parallel Contemporaries: Performance Art from Southeast Asia in the British Context.” Archiving Asia, Live Art Development Agency, London. 4 November.
• 2017 “When Attitudes Became Form: Conversing between David Medalla’s Practices and Harald Szeemann’s Vision of ‘Concept-based Art.” David Medalla: Study Day, Institute for International Visual Art, London. 19 April.
• 2017 “Charting Performance Art Between South Asia and Britain: Seeing Beyond the Racilialised Body.” Still/Moving: Art Working, Encounters and Conversations, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. 22 June.
• 2016 “A Stitch in Time? Situating David Medalla’s ‘Participation-Production Performances’ between British and Philippine Art History, 1969-72.” Contact Points, Tate Modern. 21 November.

Wissenschaftliche Symposien

• 2023 Talk: “Fluxus in the Philippines: Resonances and Translations.” Fluxus Global/Divers, Museum Ostwall and Dortmunder U, 22 June.
• 2023 Talk: “Worlding Pedagogies: Positions from Germany.” Worlding Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal Bridging Knowledges, Practices, and Beings, Concordia University, Montreal, 31 March.
• 2023 Talk: “Performative Documentation: Archival Departures.” Stepping Forward: Performance Research and Practice, Here, NYU Abu Dhabi and 421, Abu Dhabi, 18 February.
• 2022 Chair: Lessons Learned? Transcultural Positions in Curating and Pedagogies, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with Worlding Public Cultures: the Arts and Social Innovation, 14-16 July.
• 2022 Respondent, Motherland: Pushpamala N.’s Woman and Nation, Heidelberg University, 28 May.
• 2021 Talk: “Incommensurable Abstractions: Rasheed Araeen and Prafulla Mohanti’s Performances between Britain and South Asia.” London, Asia, Art. Worlds, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 17 June.
• 2021 Talk: “Researching Performance Art in a Transnational Context.” Transnationalism and Its New Spatial Frames, University of Amsterdam, 23 June.
• 2021 Talk: “Filming Between Fiction and Reality: Docu-Fiction Ventures into Female Labour of Overseas Filipino Workers.” Global Working Worlds in Contemporary Art, Ruhr University Bochum. 22 January.
• 2019 Talk: “‘Experimentalism’ according to Philippine Expatriate Artists of the 1960s and 1970s.” International Convention of Asian Scholars 11, University of Leiden, 18 June.
• 2019 Workshop participant: ‘The Transient Witness’, The Whole Life Academy: Archives and Reality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt / Archiv der Avantgarde, Dresden. 19-25 May.
• 2019 Talk: “Framing the Birth of Black Phoenix.” Axis of Solidarity: Landmarks, Platforms, Futures, Tate Modern / Cornell Institute of Comparative Modernities. 23 February.
• 2018 Panel chair: ‘Materialities, Colonial and Postcolonial Narratives’, Heritage Deferred?, Goethe-Institut / Dahlem Museum, Berlin. 22-23 November.
• 2018 Talk: “Assemblage, Research and Reenactment in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art.” Contemporary Art and the Politics of Process, University of Notre Dame. 20 April.
• 2017 Talk: “Conceptualism-Scepticism and Creative Cross-Pollinations in the Work of David Medalla.” Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings, Van Abbemuseum. 9 December.
• 2017 Talk: “Reading Lav Diaz's Films through Philippine Visual Art History.” Lav Diaz: Journeys, University of Westminster. 4 March.
• 2016 Talk: “Priceless Encounters, Costly Legacies: Motiroti’s Priceless (2007) as Contemporary Inquiry into Colonial Displays.” Showing, Telling, Seeing: Displaying India in Britain, 1900 to the Present, Paul Mellon Centre. 1 July.
• 2015 Talk: “From London to Delhi: Performance Art and the Pitfalls of Nationalism.” Present’s Disjunctive Unity: Constructing and Deconstructing Histories of Contemporary Cultural and Aesthetic Practices, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. 27 November.
• 2013 Talk: “Escaping the Na(rra)tive in 1960s’ Britain: David Medalla’s Fusion of Asian Iconography and Performance Art.” Titling the World: Histories of Modern and Contemporary Asian Art, University of Sydney. 30 November.
• 2013 Talk: “Exploring Diaspora Struggles: The Performance Artwork Kali (1984) by Sutapa Biswas.” Visual Culture in Crisis: Britain 1800 to the Present, University of York. 10 May.

Selbst organisierte Symposien, Podiumdiskussionen und Workshops

• 2023 “Piyok: Does Voice ‘Break’ the Archive?” Panel discussion with meLê Yamomo and Anjeline de Dios, Galerie Nord, Berlin, 31 May.
• 2022 Transcultural Academy: Towards a Worlded Public. Dresden State Art Collections, 24-26 November.
• 2022 Worlding Art History through Syllabi. Workshop organized with the ICI Berlin and Worlding Public Cultures: the Arts and Social Innovation, 14 October.
• 2022 Lessons Learned? Transcultural Positions in Curating and Pedagogies. Conference co-organized at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden with Worlding Public Cultures: the Arts and Social Innovation, 14-16 July.
• 2021 Life Stories and Archives. Workshop organized with Arnika Ahldag, Ann Harezlak, Gulzat Egemberdieva, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, September 2021– March 2022.
• 2020 Publicness, Humour and Parody. Performance-workshop, organised with Käthe Wenzel, LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, 14 February.
• 2019 Global Artists’ Archives: The Archive of Veronika Radulovic. Workshop-discussion, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 9 September.
• 2019 Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. Symposium, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 27-28 June.
• 2019 SEA Currents II: Archives. Symposium, organised with Annie Kwan and Loredana Parracciani-Pazzini, Raven Row Gallery, London, 8-10 March.
• 2018 Exhibiting Maceda: Beyond Ethnomusicology. Workshop with Dayang Yraola, organised with the Philippine Studies Seminar Series, Humboldt University, 29 August.
• 2018  From L to E. Performance-workshop, organized with Lizza May David, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 29 July.
• 2017 SEA Currents I: Diasporas. Symposium, organised with Annie Jael Kwan and Loredana Parracciani-Pazzini, SOAS, 14 November.
• 2017 Mapping Performance and Conceptual Art in the Philippines. Roundtable discussions, organised with the Vargas Museum, University of the Philippines, Tate Research Centre: Asia, 22-24 August.
• 2016 The Participation-Production Performances of David Medalla. Panel, Contact Points, Tate Modern, 14 November.
• 2015 Present in Venice: Extensive Philippine Locality in the Contemporary. Workshop with Patrick Flores, organized with the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, SOAS, 29 October.