Ursula Frohne

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Ursula Frohne is a professor of art history at the University of Münster. She served as chief curator at ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, lectured at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and held professorships at the University of Cologne and the International University Bremen, as well as a visiting professorship at Brown University in Providence R.I. Since 2023, she has been cochair of the DFG-funded Center for Advanced Study program “Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change.” In 2014, she was awarded the Leo-Spitzer-Prize for Arts, Humanities, and Human Sciences by the University of Cologne for excellence in research. She was elected a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Düsseldorf) in 2025. Her research focuses on contemporary art and technological media, the political dimensions and socio-economic conditions of art and visual culture, and the entanglements of art, public sphere(s), and memory cultures as well as cultures of debate.