Veronica Peselmann
Veronica Peselmann works on art and visual culture from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, focusing on the history of concepts and the colonial and environmental dimensions of material practices and extractivism.
Veronica Peselmann is currently Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of Groningen (UG). Her research focuses on material practices, the history of concepts, and the colonial and environmental dimensions of artistic production from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century.
Her work ranges from painting techniques and industrial materials in the nineteenth century to artists’ books, Mail Art, and questions of reproduction and circulation in contemporary art. Her research on a Yanomami book project examines how Indigenous plant knowledge is translated through artistic practices and the material processes of papermaking.
She received her PhD from Freie Universität Berlin and has held research positions in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Her research has been supported by a.o. the Getty Research Institute, the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
Her current project, Paper Trails: Material Histories of Extractivism in Art Academies (since 2026), investigates the connections between artistic education, paper production, resource extraction, and colonial economies.