Miya Yoshida to become new Professor of Artistic Research and Head of the Zentrum Fokus Forschung from September 2024

At the Zentrum Fokus Forschung, Miya Yoshida wants to create a space for artistic ideas and creative thinking to promote, capture and help artistic futurology to break through. She wants to bring about a poetic turn in the research process, but also to rethink general knowledge - where it comes from, who produced it and under what circumstances it was created. She envisions a new research scenario, a new vocabulary and a new order of thinking, which should be at the center. Everyone needs a vision, and Yoshida wants to support the visionary thinking that comes from applied science.
Miya Yoshida previously taught aesthetics, media and cultural theories and art history and studied media and governance at Keio University, SFC, in Japan and completed an MA in art history at Goldsmiths College, University of London in the UK. After completing her master's degree, she continued her doctoral studies and received her PhD from Malmö Art Academy, Lund University and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany.
She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), lectures at international conferences and publishes critical texts on contemporary art and aesthetics. Her recent writings and publications can be found in Reformulating the architectures in exhibitions (Exhibition Amnesia, Curatography Issue.10, Taipei National University of the Arts, 2023), Listening to the Stones (Kunsthaus Dresden, 2023), Towards (Im)Measurability of Art and Life (Archive Books, Berlin 2018), Sharing as Caring No. 1-5 (Heidelberger Kunstverein, 2017), among others