Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (Mia) is an art historian and occasional curator, currently Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Amsterdam. She previously worked as professor of Iconology at Ulster University, Belfast, where she also headed the Research Graduate School. She studied in Heidelberg, London, Bonn and Cologne, completing her PhD in 2000. It was followed by post-doctoral research at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on word and image studies, such as the visual legacies of writers such as James Joyce (Joyce in Art, 2004: exhibition at RHA Dublin and book). She has explored social practice art (Joseph Beuys), artistic research, performance art, historiography of art (Aby Warburg), literary art exhibitions, and art in public. Among her books is Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique, 2018.

Mia@DAI:

21 & 22 April 2026 ~ Oosterhout, the Netherlands ~ Kitchen Responding.