Margarethe Vöhringer is an art historian and Head of the research field »Visuelles Wissen« and the project »Das Auge im Labor« at the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin). The subject of her Ph.D. at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 2006 was »Avantgarde und Psychotechnik. Wissenschaft, Kunst und Technik der Wahrnehmungsexperimente in der frühen Sowjetunion«. At the Interdisciplinary Laboratory, she is involved in the project »The Epistemic Reverse Side of Instrumental Images«.
Research interests
Experiments in art and science; perception research; Russian avant-garde; political art; history of cultural techniques; knowledge transfer Russia – Germany.