Eva Bentcheva is an art historian and curator with a focus on transnational archives, conceptualism and performance/participatory art in South/Southeast Asia and Europe. She is currently the Managing Editor for the international research project ‘Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation’ at Heidelberg University in Germany. She completed her Ph.D. in art history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, on ‘The Cultural Politics of British South Asian Performance Art, 1960s to the Present’. Her previous positions have included Adjunct Researcher for the Tate Research Centre: Asia in London, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University), and the Goethe-Institut Fellow at Haus der Kunst in Munich, where she co-curated the exhibition Archives in Residence: Southeast Asia Performance Collection in 2019. She was co-editor of a guest-edited issue of the journal Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art on ‘Pathways of Performativity in Contemporary Art of Southeast Asia’ (2022).

Website: www.hausderkunst.academia.edu/EvaBentcheva/CurriculumVitae

Instagram: @evabentcheva