Julia Secklehner

Julia is a historian of modern art, design, and visual culture. As a researcher on the project Beyond the Village. Folk Cultures as Agents of Modernity, 1918–1945, she investigates the role of minority folk cultures, women’s artisanal production, and photographic representations of folk cultures in Czechoslovakia.

She is a co-organiser of the Lausanne project and led the research series Creativity from Vienna to the World: Transatlantic Exchanges in Design and Pedagogy. Her recent publications include the graphic novel De la lumière à l’ombre: Lausanne 1923 (Antipodes, 2024) and Rethinking Modern Austrian Art Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2024), which was awarded the Masaryk University Science Prize in 2024.