Dr Tintin Wulia has been exploring aesthetics’ role in politics and society as an artist for over 25 years, focusing on borders and state security. She began her artistic career in 2000 as a filmmaker. Since then she has contributed to over 200 exhibitions, screenings, and publications, including Hamburg International Short Film Festival (2003), Pusan International Film Festival (2004), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2005), Istanbul Biennial (2005), Moscow Biennale (2011), Asia Pacific Triennial (2012), Sharjah Biennial (2013), Venice Biennale (representing Indonesia, 2017), and Chicago Architecture Biennial (2021). Her works are held in collections such as He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven). A retrospective exhibition, Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common, tracing a concept developed in her current research project on aesthetic objects and sociopolitical change, was presented at the Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art (2024-25).

In 2018 Dr Wulia joined the University of Gothenburg as an interdepartmental Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre on Global Migration, and became a Senior Researcher at the Artistic Faculty in 2021. She is also Visiting Senior Fellow at the School of Art, RMIT University (2025-27), and Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science/LSE (2024-25). Her previous fellowships include the Australia Council for the Arts’ Creative Australia Fellowship (2014–16), Honorary Senior Research Fellowship at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (2022–23), and Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2018). She served on the editorial board of the American Association of Geographers/AAG journal GeoHumanities (2015-22); her recent writings appear in Migrating Minds, an award-winning volume on cultural cosmopolitanism (Routledge, 2022), and Journal
of Political Power (2023). Wulia led her Swedish Research Council-funded Protocols of Killings (2021-24), is the sole collaborator on the SSHRC-funded Rethinking Declassification (2024-30), and Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (THINGSTIGATE, 2023-28).