CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

2011-13	Head of the research project «Fictions of the Original. Explorations of Practices and Discourses in Modern and Contemporary African Arts». Researchers’ group Transcultural Negotiations in the Ambits of Art. Comparative Perspectives on Historical Contexts and Contemporary Constellations. (FOR 1709) at the Free University of Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
2007-09	Head of the research project «Media arts and the dynamics of the contemporary art worlds in Johannesburg and Luanda». Funded by the German research foundation (DFG) in Bonn.
since 2007	Founding member and principal investigator of BIGSAS (Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies. www.bigsas.uni-bayreuth.de
2003-07	Head of the research project «Artworlds in Interaction» within the Research centre SFB/FK 560 «Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Developments», University of Bayreuth. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) in Bonn.
2005-08	Head of the research project «Belief in the Paranormal and Occult. Its Influence on the Socio-Political, Economic, and Religious Life in West Africa in the Era of Globalization». Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation in Hannover.
2005-08	Head of the research project «Black Paris – Art and History of a Black Diaspora». Funded by the Federal Foundation for Culture in Halle (Kulturstiftung des Bundes).