In recent years, the term global art has become a catchphrase in contemporary art discourses. Going beyond additive notions of canon expansion, this volume encourages a differentiated inquiry into the complex aesthetic, cultural, historical, political, epistemological and socio-economic implications of both the term global art itself and the practices it subsumes. Focusing on diverse examples of art, curating, historiography and criticism, the contributions not only take into account (new) hegemonies and exclusions but also the shifting conditions of transcultural art production, circulation and reception.

Sarah Dornhof (Dr.) is a postdoctoral fellow at Freie Universität Berlin. Nanne Buurman (M.A.) is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Freie Universität Berlin. Birgit Hopfener (Dr. phil.) is Associate Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, CA. Barbara Lutz (Dr. phil.) is a cultural scientist and works as an art mediator for documenta fifteen in 2022. She was a member of the doctoral study program 'Produktionsräume Ästhetischer Praxis' at the University of Hildesheim Foundation and gained her PhD at the Institute of Theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. With a critical regard to social and cultural discrimination her work focuses on concepts and methods of transculturality in the field of exhibition practice and art mediation in a global context.