Rose-Anne Gush is a scholar and sporadic artist and curator, working in the fields of political aesthetics and art history and theory, exploring the spatial politics of capitalism and artistic form, geographies of extraction and liberatory ecologies. She is currently Assistant Professor at the IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at TU Graz. Her monograph Artistic Labour of the Body (Historical Materialism book series, Brill/Haymarket) was published in 2026. Before joining IZK, she held post-doctoral fellowships at the ZI in Munich and the DFK in Paris, and has taught at various universities in Europe and the UK.
Rose-Anne Gush and Philipp Sattler collaborate on an evolving artistic research project, titled How Does One Get to Own a Mountain?!, or Mountain Morphologies.
Pics credit
Still from How Does One Get to Own a Mountain?! 2020
For Rose-Ann’s portrait
image credit: Marija Jančić
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