Sol

Izquierdo De la Viña

Sol Izquierdo de la Viña is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Heritage at the Institute of History of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). She is currently conducting a one-year research stay as a Visiting Scholar at New York University in the framework of her research project "Transcultural Weaving: Exiled Jewish Women Artists in the 20th-Century Americas" (TransCultWom).

Her research focuses on transcultural dynamics in art history. This includes the circulation and reception of images and cultural assets; modern mobility processes, such as travel, tourism, and exile; and the configuration of the Orientalist imaginary. She has specifically examined visual and material culture in Germany during the first half of the twentieth century from critical intersectional, gender, and postcolonial perspectives. Her current project, "Transcultural Weaving," explores exiled Central European artists' use of indigenous textile techniques and motifs in Latin America.

In 2017, she obtained a Master of Art History in the Global Context from the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2021, she completed a Ph.D. in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her doctoral thesis provided a postcolonial analysis of the reception of Indian art and culture in the work of Brücke artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. She received the Enrique Fuentes Quintana Award from the Funcas Foundation for the best doctoral thesis in the humanities category. As a result of her research, she co-curated the exhibition  “Whose Expressión? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism” at the Brücke Museum in Berlin. From 2022 to 2024, she was a Margarita Salas postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Berlin and the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, where she also taught. During this period, she conducted a postdoctoral research project entitled "Traveling Identity: Lene Schneider-Kainer's Orientalist Imaginaries Through Her Travels During the Weimar Republic,” examining the life and work of this artist and collector from an intersectional gender perspective.

She is currently participating in the research project “Women as Cultural Producers: Transatlantic Artistic Connections and Exchanges in the 20th-Century” (PID2022-142633OA-I00), which is directed by Carmen Gaitán Salinas. She previously participated in projects led by Professor Eva Fernández del Campo, such as "Creativity en the Shadows. Mestizo Art Accounts in Modern Society" (HAR2017-82394-R) and PR41/17-20971. She was also part of the Complutense Research Group TRAMA.

Additionally, she has carried out several funded research stays in Germany and has received scholarships from the DAAD, as well as a postdoctoral fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She has taught at several universities and participated in international seminars and conferences at universities and museums. Within Prof. Bénédicte Savoy's Department at the Technical University of Berlin, she contributed her work, "An Archive of Hospitality (Ibiza, 1933–1936)," to the exhibition “The Power in/of Collections” alongside the "Museums & Society: Mapping the Social" team, and she organized the interdisciplinary workshop “Dislocation & Indomania”. She was previously an assistant curator at SAVVY Contemporary Berlin.