Margaret Tali is a Senior Researcher in art history and museum studies whose main areas of research involve transnational, transcultural and comparative art histories as well as museum histories in Estonia and beyond. She has gained her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, publishing “Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums” after which she worked at the Maastricht University, University of Groningen and Sandberg Institute.
She is interested in processes of remembering and narrating histories through art in museums and in public space. She has initiated and coordinated the exchange and research project “Communicating Difficult Pasts” (2019-2024, with Ieva Astahovska) that focused on marginalised themes and/or perspectives in Baltic history in Eastern European context by bringing together visual art and humanities scholarship.She has also been a guest research fellow at the Humboldt University Institute of Art and Visual History, Helsinki University Centre for European Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest, and at National Museum of World Cultures in The Netherlands.