Simone Wille Innsbruck, Austria

Simone Wille is an art historian of 20th century modernist and contemporary art, working at the interfaces of transnational modernism, mobility studies, and historical transition. Her research focuses in particular on historic and artistic entanglements and cultural mobility between South and West Asia and Europe in the 20th century. She thereby looks at decolonisation and the way this has co-produced the larger art world.Wille is Elise Richter Fellow at the Institute of Art History, University of Innsbruck. She currently directs the research project South Asia in Central Europe: The Mobility of Artists and Art Works between 1947 and 1989, funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF (V880-G).Her publications span modern art and artist’s mobility from the decolonizing world.