Wei Sun

art historian

I am a doctoral candidate affiliated with the Institute for European Art History at Heidelberg University and the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. My research examines European-Japanese art history, avant-garde theory, museum history, and the circulation of art across institutional and diplomatic contexts. My interests also include the historiography of art and multilingual art history.

I am currently researching the history of the exhibition Le Japon des avant-gardes : 1910–1970.

Recent work and current research

Initiative · Live

Uzumea — 3D Exhibitions in the Browser

An independent platform I founded and lead for making exhibitions people can walk into, with sources and rights beside every work. Now open to everyone on the web and free to use.

Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art cover

Publication · 2026

Transcultural Dimensions of Timeless Beauty: On Okamoto Tarō’s Personal Vision of ‘World Art History’

Book chapter in Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art.

Publication · 2026

Tarō Okamoto: La Métamorphose Comme Avant-Garde

Paris/Lyon: Fondation Giacometti, Éditions FAGE.

Research · 2026–27

After Nanjing

Japanese art, memory, and responsibility in transnational perspective.

Symposium · 2026

The Making of Japanese Art History in the 20th Century

International symposium at Heidelberg University.