Beáta Hock is a scholar and curator specializing in the art and cultural history of East-Central Europe, with a strong focus on gender, feminism and transnational/global perspectives. She did research work at the Artpool Art Research Center, Budapest, working on these performative art forms in Hungary in the 1970-80s. Extending her study of post-war art and culture with a focus on gender, Hock completed her doctorate in Comparative Gender Studies at the Central European University, Budapest. She also carried out study and research stays at Beloit College, USA; the Humboldt University of Berlin; and the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. She has been a Visiting Professor at The Courtauld Institute of Art, London (2015/16) and the University of Vienna (2021/22), and in the academic year 2023/24, she was Acting Chair of Eastern European Art History at the Institute of Art and Visual History (Humboldt University of Berlin). She was co-editor of Praesens: Central European Contemporary Art Review, between 2003–06, and Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present (Routledge, 2018), and member of the Editorial Board of ARTmargins: Art – Curating – Media – Politics – Transition (MIT Press). She lectured at the Central European University, the University of Fine Arts, both in Budapest, and the University of Leipzig. Beyond her academic work, Hock has curated exhibitions such as Left Performance Histories (Berlin, 2018) and Agents & Provocateurs (on view in Hungary in 2009, in Germany in 2010, co-curated with Franciska Zólyom). Between 2022 and 2024, she lead the Traveling Seminars Project Linking (Art) Worlds: American Art and Eastern Europe in the Cold War and Since.