Buket Altinoba, Dr. phil., heads the DFG-Project “Eigene Stelle” Skulpturmaschinen: Competition of Reproduction Techniques 1770-1880 at the Institute of Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. Previously she was Visiting Professor for “Historische Bildwissenschaft” at the University of Regensburg. She worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Art and Architectural History at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and participated as a Fellow in the Mathilde Planck Lectureship Program at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. Her PhD on the subject of the Istanbul Academy of Art (Dec 2012) was published under the title The Istanbul Academy of Art from its foundation until today. Modern Art, Nation Building and Cultural Transfer in Turkey (Berlin 2016). Between 2008 and 2010 she was a doctoral fellow of the Graduiertenkolleg “Image-Body-Medium. An Anthropological Perspective” at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe. She is a member of the DFG network “Entangled Histories of Art and Migration: Forms, Visibilities, Agents” funded by the German Research Society (DFG) (2018-2021); of the working group “Art Production and Art Theory under the Sign of Global Migration” (since 2013); of the DFG Research Group “Research Network for Transcultural Practices in the Arts and Humanities (RNTP)” of the Humboldt University Berlin and Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg (since 2015).

Recent publications: Figuren der Replikation, edited with Maria Männig, kritische berichte issue 3/2020; “Engineers as artists and the reproduction of art objects at early World’s Fairs,” in: Gesamtkunstwerk World’s Fair‘. Revisioning International Exhibitions. RIHA special issue 2019 (co-edited with A. Karentzos, M. Oesterreich) (forthcoming); “Kunst und Technik: Klaus Lankheit und das Weltausstellungsarchiv,” in: Kunstgeschichte an Polytechnischen Instituten, Technischen Hochschulen und Technischen Universitäten. Geschichte – Positionen – Perspektiven, Wien 2021.