Rhea Maria Dehn, M.A.,

is a doctoral candidate of art history (since 2020) and research associate (since 2020) at the Section of Fashion & Aesthetics at Technical University of Darmstadt. Under the working title “Auf der ‚anderen’ Seite: El Estrecho de Gibraltar. Grenzgeografien, Migration und Identitätspolitik in der zeitgenössischen Kunst” (on the other side: El Estrecho de Gibraltar; borderscapes, migration and identity policitics in contemporary art), she explores the changing interpretation of border, migration and identity from an art-history perspective. While considering postcolonial and global studies, she focusses on the border region between Southern Spain and North Africa based on contemporary positions.

She studied art history and Romance languages and literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and at the Universtitat de Barcelona (Spain). In her Master’s thesis “Umdeutungen des Schleiers. Repräsentationspolitiken bei Lalla Essaydi, Majida Khattari und Yumna Al-Arashi (2019)” (Reinterpreting the Veil. Politics of Representation by Lalla Essaydi, Majida Khattari and Yumna Al-Arashi), she examined the artistic areas of action in a Western influenced ‘discourse about the Orient’. She was student trainee in the curatorial section of the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main (2019), during which time she actively followed the Contemporary Muslim Fashions exhibition and presented a panel about fashion and art during the Contemporary Muslim Fashions Forum.