Univ.-Prof. Dr. Julia Kloss-Weber
Professor of Art History (Early Modern Period), Deputy Head of Department
Kunst-, Musik- und Tanzwissenschaft
UNIPARK Nonntal, Erzabt-Klotz-Straße 1 | A-5020 Salzburg, 5020 Salzburg
Tel.: +43 (0)662 8044 4602
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Office Hours
When: Fridays, 13:30–15:00
Where: in person, by phone, or online
How to book: Please email Ms Kloss-Weber to arrange an appointment.
Research Interests
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Early Modern period, with a particular focus on France in the 17th and 18th centuries, and Spanish art of the 17th century
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Art histories of Latin America, especially the visual cultures of 16th-century Mexico
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History and theory of sculpture
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Methodologies of transcultural art histories, processes of visual translation, image theory and discourses on alterity, art histories and postcolonial cultural concepts
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Gender studies and feminist perspectives in art history
Biography
After studying Art History, Philosophy, and Modern German Literature, Julia Kloss-Weber completed her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin in 2010. Her dissertation, Individualisiertes Ideal und nobilitierte Alltäglichkeit. Das Genre in der französischen Skulptur der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts, examined genre in French sculpture of the later eighteenth century. Following her doctorate, she completed a curatorial traineeship at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, before joining the DFG Research Unit 1703 Transcultural Negotiation Spaces of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Contemporary Constellations as a research associate. In 2022, she completed her habilitation in Art History at the University of Hamburg with the study Bilder der Alterität – Alterität der Bilder. Zum transkulturellen Potenzial von Bildern in Übersetzungsprozessen zwischen Neuspanien und Europa im 16. Jahrhundert (De Gruyter, 2025). She has held interim professorships and lecturing positions at the Department of Art History at the University of Hamburg, the Institute of Art History at the University of Bern, and the Institute of Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. In 2024, she was appointed Professor of Art History with a focus on the Early Modern Period at Paris Lodron University Salzburg, a position she has held since March 2025.
Current Projects
Imaginations of Female Power. Objects, Narratives, Discourses International conference in cooperation with PD Dr. Johanna Schumm (LMU Munich) & Dr. Nerina Santorius (Museum Barberini, Potsdam) 13–15 March 2025 // Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Fragilité. Aesthetic Conjunctures in the 18th Century International conference in cooperation with Dr. Iris Brahms (University of Tübingen) & Dr. Markus Castor (German Center for Art History, Paris) 22–24 October 2025 // University of Tübingen
Member of the DFG Research Network Ecologies of Marble. A Diachronic Perspective (Initiators: Anna Frasca-Rath, Marthe Kretzschmar)
Publications
Kloss-Weber, Julia: Bilder der Alterität – Alterität der Bilder. Zum transkulturellen Potenzial von Bildern in Übersetzungsprozessen zwischen Neuspanien und Europa im 16. Jahrhundert, Berlin/Boston 2025 (zugl. Habil. Universität Hamburg 2022).
Buchholz, Amrei; Fuentes Vega, Alicia; Kloss-Weber, Julia (Hg.): Turning the Mirror. Gendering the Art Histories of Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula, voraussichtlich 2025 (Oyster. Feminist and Queer Approaches to Arts, Cultures, and Genders)
Kloss-Weber, Julia: St. Francis’ Stigmatized Body. Processes of Transcultural Negotiation in New Spanish Art of the 16th Century, voraussichtlich 2025 (conference papers CIHA 2022 | MOTION: Migrations, Sao Paulo, 17.-21. Januar 2022).
