Maike Prause, B.A.

Maike Prause holds a double bachelor's degree in Art History and Italian Philology from the Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. During her bachelor studies, she primarily focused on urban planning aspects as well as medieval secular and sacred architecture, specifically in Italy, as exemplified by her thesis, “Three medieval communal palaces and their loggias in Veneto (Venice, Padua, Vicenza)”. Formerly a trained scenic-painter at a theatre and also working as a freelance artist and curator alongside her studies, her field of interest shifted to modern and contemporary art for her Master's degree. After an internship and two subsequent work contracts at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, she is now working as a graduate research assistant in the department Gerhard Wolf at the KHI, while writing her thesis for her MA degree at Ruhr-University Bochum, investigating three work-series of the artist Lynda Benglis with a focus on materiality and temporality.