Anu Allas is the Vice Rector for Research and the head of the MA program in museology at the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture. Her main research topics are post Eastern European art after the II World War and neo-avant-garde art and performative art practices of the 1960s and 70s. She has studied art history at the Estonian Arts Academy and defended her PhD about experimental art practices in Estonian art and theatre in 1960s at the Berlin Freie University (2013).
She has published a book „Spiel der Unsicherheit / Unsicherheit des Spiels: Experimentelle Praktiken in der estnischen Kunst und im estnischen Theater der 1960er Jahre“ (transcript 2015) articles about art during the Soviet period, been the editor of journals such as „Globalizing East European Art Histories: Past and Present” (with Beáta Hockiga, Routledge 2018). 2014-2020
Anu Allas was a curator and program manager at the KUMU art museum, mainly curating exhibitions about art during the 2nd half of the 20th century, including permanent exhibition “Conflicts and Adaptations. Estonian Art of the Soviet Era (1940-1991)”.
At the Institute of Art History and Visual Culture she has mainly given lectures about art history in 20th century, including Estonian art during the Soviet Era, currently she is teaching the introductory course into museology titled “Museum in theory and practice” and MA seminar (together with Epp Lankots).