Barbara Kristina Murovec, visiting scholar at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut, studied art history and comparative literature in Ljubljana, Munich, Vienna, and Graz, obtained her PhD in Ljubljana in 2000, and her Habilitation in Maribor in 2006, where she taught from 2010 to 2019. From 2005 to 2018 she was director of the France Stele Institute for Art History at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and from 2010 to 2016 she served as secretary and second vice-president of RIHA (International Association of Research Institutes in the History of Art). More recently, she was a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, and at the International Cultural Centre in Krakow. Her research explores the intersection of art history with emotional and trauma studies, memory studies, visual and identity politics, critical heritage studies, and provenance research.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- With Helena Rožman. “Forgetting the Unwanted Past by Visualising a New Local Identity: Public Monuments in Krško”. In Visual Memory and Oblivion: Monuments and Conflicts in Urban Spaces in Central and Eastern Europe from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, edited by Robert Born and Barbara Kristina Murovec. Böhlau. In preparation.
- “Musealisation of a New Identity: Mussolini’s Donation of Italian Modern Artworks to the National Gallery in Ljubljana”. Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz 66, no. 3 (2024): 296–311.
- “Transformations of Public Space: Art, Heritage and Memorial Politics in the (Former) Yugoslavia and Italy”. International Journal of Arts and Media Researches 14, no. 4 (2024): 246–262. https://artsmediajournal.tafu.edu.ge/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/N14_artstud_007_Barbara-Murovec.pdf.
- “Ästhetische Besetzung der Erinnerung: Jugoslawische Denkmäler der Revolution als Instrumente ideologischer Propaganda in Ljubljana”. In Die Gegenwart des Denkmals: Auslegung, Zerstörung, Belebung, edited by Wolfgang Brückle et al. Diaphanes, 2023.
- With Karin Šmid. “Continuity in Collecting Cultural Objects: The National Socialist and Socialist Confiscating Centre in Maribor Castle”. In Transfer of Cultural Objects in the Alpe Adria Region in the 20th Century, edited by Christian Fuhrmeister and Barbara Kristina Murovec. Böhlau, 2022.
- “Kunst in Friedenszeiten: Repräsentation – Traumabearbeitung – Triumph: Eine vergleichende Studie”. Research project at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, March–November 2020.
