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Celica Fitz is a visiting predoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept. on Knowledge Systems and Collective Life (Benson) and the working group Troubling Exposure (Browne), researching the entangled histories of knowledge and art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Her project at the MPIWG focuses on visualizations as epistemic tools of popular environmental knowledge. It is part of her current cotutelle de thèse on drawings by Emma Kunz (1892–1963) and their contextualization in recent exhibitions as artistic research on human-environment-relations, conducted interdisciplinary in museology and art history (University of Neuchâtel) and in the study of religion (University of Marburg).
Fitz graduated with master’s degrees in Art History and in the Study of Religions from the University of Marburg, having spent part of her studies at the University of Amsterdam. As a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Marburg (2017–22) she taught, edited publications, organized conferences and curated exhibitions. She is a founding member of Enchanted Epistemes, part of the working group Aesthetics of Religion at the German Association for the Study of Religion.
Alongside her research, Fitz explores tools for research-based curating in educational and artistic contexts. Recent projects connected her to collaborations with academic collections, museums and municipal cultural departments, as an academic project partner of the Department of Visual Communication, Bauhaus-University Weimar (2023–4), a VKKS-mentee at the Kunsthaus Zürich (2023–4), and as a curatorial assistant at the Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt/Main (since 2023).