Rose-Anne Gush is an art historian, theorist, and curator. Since October 2026, she is Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK) "Rohstoffwelten, Kulturen im Umbruch" at the University of Kassel. Prior to this, she was Assistant Professor at IZK – Institute for Contemporary Art at Graz University of Technology, from 2020 to 2026. Her research critically investigates the political aesthetics of "global art" and its discourses, feminist Marxist theories, and the politics of artistic labour, with a focus on the body, political ecologies, and geographies of extraction and liberation; the connections between antifascism and anticolonialism; and the central question of form. Together with Antonia Majaca, in September 2026 she organised the Feminist Political Ecology workshop Metabolic Commons: Against Entropic Zones and the Ecology That War Built at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, a collaboration between IZK and the NICHE Centre for Environmental Humanities. In 2025, she co-organised the conference What is Infrastructural Critique?, held in celebration of the life and work of Marina Vishmidt at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; its proceedings are collected in issue 41, "Energy," of Arts of the Working Class. Her recent articles have appeared in the Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, e-flux, Arts of the Working Class, Camera Austria International, Berlin Review, and FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. Her first monograph, Artistic Labour of the Body, was published in the Historical Materialism book series (Brill/Haymarket) in 2026.

Rose-Anne Gush is guest speaker in the New Tendencies in Critical Theory Series hosted by Jeff Diamanti and Marija Cetinic on behalf of BA, MA, and rMA programs in cultural analysis.