Elena Maltry M.A.

Elena Maltry is a research assistant in the SFB subproject C04 “Visual Ciphers of Home (Heimat) in the Visual Arts, Literature and Film.” She previously worked in the DFG Research Training Group “European Dream Cultures” at Saarland University. Her master's thesis on Horst Bredekamp's theory of the pictorial act in the binational master's program in art history and museology at Heidelberg University and the École du Louvre, Paris, was awarded the 2021 Willibald Sauerländer Prize by the Central Institute of Art History (Munich). At Saarland University, she studied for a bachelor's degree in visual arts and historically oriented cultural studies.

Elena is currently working on her doctoral thesis on the topic of Dream Aesthetic Tendencies in Contemporary Installation Art in the Context of Flight and Migration.

• Research on flight, exile, and migration
• Depictions of dreams in the visual arts (esp. in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries)
• Theories on the agency of images