Dominique Laleg is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Max-Planck-Institut, Rome. He holds a PhD from eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel. He teaches at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, the University of Basel, and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. He works on the theory and history of modern art, aesthetics and politics, and postcolonialism.