Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean, responsible for exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. She teaches at the University of Oxford, V&A and SOAS. Previously, she was a curator at Tate Modern, London and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. Recent publications include Ashmolean NOW: Pio Abad (Ashmolean, 2023), Ashmolean NOW: Flora Yukhnovich x Daniel Crews-Chubb (Ashmolean, 2022), Tokyo: Art & Photography (Ashmolean, 2021), A.R. Penck: I Think in Pictures (Ashmolean, 2019), Ravens & Red Lipstick: Japanese Photography since 1945 (Thames & Hudson/Seigensha, 2018 and 2024) and Giacometti (Tate Publishing, 2017). She holds a PhD from Bonn University and also studied at Keio University, Tokyo.

New photographs by London-based artist Bettina von Zwehl (b.1971 in Munich). Accompanies the artist's exhibition in Oxford at the Ashmolean Museum, 12 October 2024 to 11 May 2025. Part of the successful Ashmolean Now book series.