Grupo de Investigación UCM
ROBERTO RICCARDO ALVAU es un investigador predoctoral contratado FPI-CAM de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Se graduó en Historia del Arte en la Universidad de Valencia y posteriormente obtuvo el Máster en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid en colaboración con el Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Su investigación se especializa en el ámbito del arte comunitario en el marco de Asia Oriental, donde ha realizado estancias de investigación en la Tainan National University of Arts y en la National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University de Hsinchu. Su enfoque se centra en el arte taiwanés contemporáneo a través de una mirada interdisciplinaria que incorpora marcos decoloniales, feministas y transculturales. Su tesis doctoral, a defender a finales de 2027, se centra en la intersección entre arte de mujeres, corporalidad y territorio a partir de la figura de la artista taiwanesa Wu Mali, poniendo un particular enfoque en la estética cotidiana y comunitaria del arte taiwanés.
ROBERTO RICCARDO ALVAU is an FPI-CAM predoctoral researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He holds a degree in Art History from the University of Valencia and an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Complutense University of Madrid, in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía. His research specializes in the field of community-based art within the East Asian context, where he has conducted research stays at the Tainan National University of Arts and the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Hsinchu. He approaches contemporary Taiwanese art through an interdisciplinary lens that incorporates decolonial, feminist, and transcultural frameworks. His doctoral thesis explores the intersection of women's art, corporeality, and territory through the figure of Taiwanese artist Wu Mali. The project places particular emphasis on promoting models of pedagogy and intercultural mediation by investigating the everyday and community aesthetics of Taiwanese art.


is a Margarita Salas-Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technische Universität Berlin, where she is conducting the research project “Travelling Identity: Orientalist Imaginaries of Lene Schneider-Kainer through her Journeys during the Weimar Republic and in Exile.” Between 2017 and 2021, she was a Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. During her PhD, she carried out a research trip to India (Visva-Bharati University) and several research stays in Germany in the Kunsthistorisches Institut at the Freie Universität Berlin, at Forum Transregionale Studien (KHI–Max-Planck-Institut/Staatliche Museen) and at the Brücke-Museum. In her doctoral project, she explored the reception of Indian art and culture in Germany during the Twentieth Century and examined Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s expressionist work with a focus on issues of Orientalism within the age of European colonialism. From a transcultural perspective, she also studied the irruption of Bengali modernism in Kolkata. Her doctoral thesis, which revisited German Expressionism from a critical postcolonial perspective, was awarded awarded with the Enrique Fuentes Quintana-Prize from the Funcas Foundation (Category of Humanities 2020-2021). Recently, she has been co-curator of the exhibition “Whose Expression? The Brücke Artists and Colonialism” at the Brücke-Museum in Berlin.






