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Tiziana Caianiello has assumed a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hildesheim on the 1st June 2022.
She studied humanities and specialised in history of art at the University of Naples Federico II. In 2005, she earned a Ph.D. in history of art from the University of Cologne. After two years as trainee curator at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, she led the research project "Materializing the Ephemeral: Media Art Installations; Preservation and Presentation" at the IMAI-Inter Media Art Institute in Düsseldorf. Subsequently, she was responsible for the archives and for research/publications at the ZERO foundation in Düsseldorf.
Main fields of expertise: theoretical and ethical issues in the conservation and presentation of contemporary art, conservation of light kinetic installations, participatory art in museum context, musealisation.