Dr. Kia Vahland
Kia Vahland is an art historian and editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung, where she headed the arts section in the features department until 2017 and co-founded the opinion section in 2018. After teaching at various universities throughout Germany, Hamburg, Lüneburg, Bochum and Bremen, she now teaches at Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität and the German School of Journalism. Previously, she worked as an editor for ART magazine and the ZDF television program Willemsens Woche. She is a contributing author to Geo Epoche and a columnist for Radio Bremen Zwei as well as the online magazine Republik. Vahland won several awards. In 2015, she received the Critics’ Prize of the hbs Culture Fund, and in 2016, the Michael Althen Prize for Criticism from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In 2017 she was voted into the top ten cultural journalists of the year (Medium Magazin). In 2020 and 2021, she served as the jury spokesperson for the German Nonfiction Prize. Kia Vahland wrote numerous works about art history. Her artist biography The Da Vinci Women was shortlisted for the Leipziger Buchpreis 2019.