Oliver Sukrow studied art history at Greifswald, Salzburg, and Colchester. He holds a PhD in art history from the University of Heidelberg for a study on Utopian thinking in the visual arts and architecture of the GDR in the 1960s. Between 2016 – 2020, he worked as Assistant Professor at the Research Unit History of Art at TU Wien. Since 2020, he is PostDoc in the FWF project „Transnational School Construction” at TU Wien. He is a member of the project-related advisory board of the Wüstenrot Stiftung. His latest publication include: Haus der Kultur Gera, ed. Claudia Tittel, Leipzig 2021; Die Beziehung des Menschen zu Natur und Technik. Geschichte und Wiederaufbau des Wandbildes von Josep Renau in Erfurt, ed. Philip Kurz, Verena Krubasik, Ludwigsburg 2020; „Seizure, transformation, depiction: Bernhard Kretzschmar’s view of Stalinstadt and landscape painting in 1950s East Germany,“ in: Cold Revolution. Central and Eastern European societies in times of Socialist Realism, 1948-1959, ed. Jérôme Bazin, Joanna Kordjak, Milano 2020; “US Art in Cold War East Germany: Jeans are a mindset”, with Iain Boyd Whyte, in: Hot Art Cold War. Southern and Eastern European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, London 2020; “”Muses with a Cold”. Austria, the Visual Arts, and the Cold War,” with Iain Boyd Whyte, in: Hot Art, Cold War – Northern and Western European Writing on American Art 1945-1990, London 2020; Arbeit. Wohnen. Computer. Zur Utopie in der bildenden Kunst und Architektur der DDR in den 1960er Jahren, Heidelberg 2018; Zwischen Sputnik und Ölkrise. Kybernetik in Architektur, Planung und Design, ed. Oliver Sukrow, Berlin 2018; Lea Grundig. Sozialistische Künstlerin und Präsidentin des Verbandes Bildender Künstler in der DDR (1964 – 1970), Oxford 2011.