Feng Schöneweiß is a historian of art and collections in Chinese- and German-speaking regions. After obtaining his doctorate in East Asian art history and transcultural studies at Heidelberg University, Feng works as a postdoctoral research fellow at the 4A_Lab in Berlin, an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI) and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). His academic interests focus on two areas: (1) transcultural histories of collecting and collections in relation to the histories, practice, and legal frameworks of provenance research and restitution, and (2) energy consumption as analytical method for a planetary approach in ecocritical art history and ecocritical museology. His research in these areas has received generous support from the American Ceramic Circle, the Bei Shan Tang Foundation, the British Academy, the DAAD, Heidelberg University, the Humboldt Foundation, the Max Planck Society, and The University of Chicago, among others. 

Education 

• 09/2023–09/2025 | Postdoctoral Fellow, 4A_Lab, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• 10/2023–03/2024 | Guest Lecturer, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) 
• 10/2023–03/2024 | Honorary Research Associate, Museum for Applied Art (MAK), Frankfurt am Main 
• 07/2023 | PhD in East Asian Art History with a postgraduate certificate in Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg University
• 10/2018–09/2020 | Associate Member, Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies 
• 10/2018–03/2019 | Research Assistant to the Chair of Chinese Art History, Heidelberg University
• 10/2015–09/2018 | Doctoral Fellow, Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context,” Heidelberg University
• 05/2013–04/2015 | Assistant Curator, Department for Research and Exhibition, Shanghai University Museum
• 07/2013 | MA Art History, Shanghai University (Shanghai, China)
• 06/2010 | BA Art History, Southeast University (Nanjing, China)

Selected Grants and Fellowships

• 08/2024 | British Academy UK-German Frontiers of Humanities Seed Grant, Co-Investigator
• Summer 2024 | Association for Chinese Art History research group leader
• 06/2024 | Humboldt Foundation CONNECT Grant
• 12/2023, 07/2024 | DAAD Congress and Lecture Grants
• 05/2022–04/2023 | Bei Shan Tang Foundation Doctoral Thesis Grant
• 06/2021–05/2022 | American Ceramic Circle Research Grant
• 10/2019–03/2020 | Heidelberg University Faculty of Philosophy Dissertation Grant
• 06/2019 | Mary Vidal Memorial Award, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art & Architecture
• 04/2019, 05/2021 | Heinz-Götze-Scholarship for Chinese Art History
• 03/2012–02/2013 | Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Junior Research Grant in the Humanities
• 06/2010 | Southeast University Excellent Bachelor Thesis Prize