Sol Izquierdo de la Viña

Sol Izquierdo de la Viña is a postdoctoral fellow at the Technische Universität Berlin, where she teaches and conducts the research project “Travelling Identity: Orientalist Imaginaries of Lene Schneider-Kainer through her Journeys during the Weimar Republic and in Exile.” She received her PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid in 2021. Her dissertation, which was awarded with the Funcas Foundation Prize for Humanities, examined Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s reception of Indian art from a transcultural and postcolonial perspective. Her work focuses on critical approaches to German Expressionism and Indian Modernism. In 2021, she was co-curator of the exhibition “Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism” at the Brücke-Museum Berlin.