Juliane Debeusscher
PhD., art historian and researcher. My main research topics focus on the history of exhibitions and artistic relations in Cold War and post-Cold War Europe, most particularly exchange between Eastern and Southern Europe, as well as artists publications and networks, practices of social participation and cultural decentralization. Current position: since January 2026: Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Department of Art History. Previous contracts and fellowships include lecturer at Duke University International Program in Madrid (2025); Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Modern Art & Theory at Masaryk University Brno (2024); Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Theory of Art, Autonomous University of Madrid (2022-2024); Paris x Rome Fellowship, Bibliotheca Hertziana Rome and Centre Allemand d'Histoire de l'Art Paris (2021); Doctoral Fellowship (FPI Grant) from the Spanish Ministry of Sciences and Universities, University of Barcelona (2016-2020).
I am associate researcher in the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMR 5190), member of REIECO. Red Española de Investigación sobre Europa Central y Oriental (Spanish Research Network on Central and Eastern Europe) and of the international research platform Decentralized Modernities: art, politics and counterculture in the transatlantic axis during the Cold War.
I am associate researcher in the Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA, UMR 5190), member of REIECO. Red Española de Investigación sobre Europa Central y Oriental (Spanish Research Network on Central and Eastern Europe) and of the international research platform Decentralized Modernities: art, politics and counterculture in the transatlantic axis during the Cold War.
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Edited journal issues by Juliane Debeusscher
We argue that, within these specific junctures, alternative publishing emerges as a key medium for the expression of this newfound creativity, owing to its accessibility and ease of circulation, which require minimal technical infrastructure or financial resources. Moreover, the post-dictatorial timeframe enables us to invoke a transnational framework that extends beyond our primary focus of research, Southern and Eastern Europe, and connect to other geographical, cultural, and political contexts shaped by authoritarian processes.
In this way, the contributions as a whole compose a geographical framework that spans from South America (Argentina, Uruguay, Chile) to the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal, Spain), with an opening towards the Arab World (Morocco, Lebanon). They deal with different periods directly linked to post-authoritarian political and social transitions, based on the mobilisation of a new approach to publishing, but also committed to the recuperation of former practices and their reinterpretation in relation to a turbulent historical present.
To do so, the issue features contributions from international scholars who specialize in publishing as an artistic and/or countercultural practice. It also includes insights from Bidayat, an independent cultural magazine that emerged in Beirut after the revolts of 2011; and the testimony of Lola Nomdedeu, Clara Beltrán and Uberto Stabile, involved in the countercultural publishing movement —then known as “prensa marginal” (“marginal press”)— in post-Franco Spain (1975-1980); or the testimony of Moroccan researcher and editor Kenza Sefrioui, who heads the publishing house En Toutes Lettres. Finally, a visual glossary, curated by the editors, seeks to develop some of the key ideas running throughout the issue, reproducing printed matter selected from alternative, underground, and experimental publications across various post-dictatorial periods and contexts.
Papers by Juliane Debeusscher