Art Historian Juliane Noth Receives ERC Consolidator Grant

European Research Council to provide nearly two million euros in funding for research project at Freie Universität Berlin. The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that Juliane Noth, an art historian at Freie Universität Berlin, is the recipient of an ERC Consolidator Grant in the amount of approximately 1.955 million euros. Noth is a professor of East Asian art history at Freie Universität's Art History Institute and will use the funding for her research project "Art Academies in China: Global Histories and Institutional Practices" (CHINACADEMY). Over the course of the five-year project, she and her team of researchers will study the role of art academies in twentieth-century Chinese art. The European Research Council awards ERC Consolidator Grants to promising scientists and scholars who completed their doctorates between seven and twelve years ago and now find themselves in the "consolidation phase" of their academic careers. Professor Juliane Noth is an expert in twentieth-century Chinese art and how it was redefined with regard to historical practices and global networks, as well as its relationship to social, political, and institutional contexts. With the support of the European Research Council, Noth will study the role of art academies in establishing modern artistic practices and theoretical debates in China.