Carlos Kong is a joint-PhD candidate in Art History at Princeton University and in Film Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, where he is completing his dissertation, Migrant-Situated Knowledge in the Arts of Postmigration: Turkish German Archives in Contemporary Art and Film. His research primarily focuses on global contemporary art and film (especially in Germany and Turkey), Turkish German histories, postmigrant cultural practices, as well as interdisciplinary and transnational approaches across visual art, film, literature and migration. He received a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, an MA in History of Art from The Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) and pursued additional studies in Heidelberg and Istanbul. His work has been supported by Fulbright, DAAD and the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich. He has contributed to various edited volumes, art and film magazines, artist monographs, and curatorial and discursive programmes, and he is co-editor of The Public Review, a digital publication for art criticism.

Research Project at EXC "Temporal Communities":

Transnational Filmmaking in Germany: Practices, Routes, Archives