Dr. Mėta Valiušaitytė
Freie Universität Berlin
International Summer and Winter University
(FUBiS)
Mėta Valiušaitytė is an art historian based in Berlin and in Paris. She recieved her PhD in Art History (summa cum laude) from the Université Paris Nanterre in cotutelle with the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, as well as a double degree, a Magister from the University of Heidelberg, with a major in Art History and minors in Political Science and Italian Literature and an M.A. in Museology from the École du Louvre, Paris.
Substituting in the following FUBiS course:
- History of European Art: Travelling Artists and Artworks (FUBiS Term III 2024)
Mėta has worked as a curator at numerous institutions: she has been a scientific executive assistant to Peter Weibel, CEO of the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, and a researcher at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, where she worked on the exhibition “Les Louvre de Pablo Picasso” (Musée du Louvre-Lens, 10/2021-01/2022). Her latest research project focuses on the imaginary of modern ruins. One of her most recently curated exhibitions is "Picasso on Wood", currently on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga. Mėta has been a Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, the German Center for Art History (DFK) in Paris and the Académie de France-Villa Médicis in Rome, among others.
Mėta Valiušaitytė has taught at the Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne, focusing on exhibition history and historiography of the art market.
Her research and publications focus on twentieth-century European art, particularly on the history of Cubism and its connections to the human body as well as the question of size and scale. Her broader research interests focus on site-specific art, architecture as body, cross-disciplinary experiments, and the forms that art and artistic expression takes in times of despair.
Mėta Valiušaitytė has written extensively about modern and contemporary art.