Myrijam Raich
BA

MyrjamHelena.Raich(at)oeaw.ac.at
 

Myrjam Raich is a student assistant in the research unit Art History.

Brief biography

Myrjam Raich is pursuing studies of Art History at Leopold Franzens University in Innsbruck since 2022 and is funded by the Austrian Study Foundation since 2021. 2024 Participation in the international workshop How to Reframe Monuments: Case Studies for Thinking Through Dissonant Heritage in Narva at the Estonian Academy of Fine Arts. 2025 Bachelor's thesis “Between Aesthetics and Ideology: Contemporary Iconoclasm using the example of the ‘Victory Monument’ in Riga” (graded with the highest possible mark). 2025 Election to the Student Council of the University of Innsbruck.

Research interests

Period: 18th century – present
Area: Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics
Topics: Political Iconography, Art in Public Spaces, Iconoclasm, Monuments & Painting, Culture of Remembrance