Carolin Bohlmann is a professor of Conservation and Restoration of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Prior to her appointment at the university, she spent close to two decades working as a conservator at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart in Berlin, where she was responsible, among other things, for the public restoration of Joseph Beuys’ installation Richtkräfte für eine neue Gesellschaft (1974). Her research focuses on the history of restoration, art technology and material theory as well as the conservation of the ephemeral in museums.