Nadja Rottner

Nadja Rottner is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She holds dual Master degrees in Art History from the Karl Franzens University in Graz, Austria, and Columbia University, New York. In 2009, she received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, discussing the understudied performances of Claes Oldenburg. She writes in the fields of modern and contemporary art with an emphasis on American and Latin American art after 1945. In her writing, she engages with art of all formats located at varying intersections: between the visual, literary, and the performing arts, between art and technology, art and science, as well as art in transnational contexts.

She is the co-editor, together with Peter Weibel, of a two-volume book on Ruth Vollmer, 1961-1978: Thinking the Line and Gego, 1957-1988: Thinking the Line (Hatje Cantz, 2006). In 2012, she edited Claes Oldenburg (MIT Press, 2012). More recently, she published Cardiovista: Detroit Street Photography, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 2015. After publishing Claes Oldenburg’s Theater of Vision with Routledge in 2023, her most recent book project addresses the arts of Venezuela in the 1970s. She regularly contributes texts to exhibition catalogues and she has written for journals and periodicals such as Getty Research Journal, Oxford Art Journal, Modern Drama, Art Journal, Konsthistorisk Tidskrift: Journal of Art History, October Files, Camera Austria, Eikon: International Zeitschrift für Fotografie und Medienkunst, NKA: Journal for Contemporary African Art, Flash Art, Artforum International, Essay’d, and others.