Dr. des. Aïcha Revellat is a Swiss-Senegalese art historian. She completed her doctorate at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image with the dissertation Fragile Oberflächen, scharfe Kanten. Form und Orientierung in Hannah Villigers Praxis and teaches as a guest lecturer at the University of Basel and the Institute Art Gender Nature at FHNW.
Her research brings together art history, and image theory with a particular focus on photographic and three-dimensional image media and questions of embodiment, perception, and medial instability. She works on post-conceptual and contemporary artistic practices, including artistic engagements with the African diaspora.
Together with Dennis Jelonnek (DFK Paris), she is co-editor of the bilingual FUNDUS volume Auflösungs/erscheinungen. Positionen zum fotografischen Verschwinden, forthcoming with DISTANZ.
In February 2026, she co-founded Commons Calling with Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel and Alya Joreige, an independent curatorial and research initiative. Working across different geographical and institutional contexts, Commons Calling develops long-term programmes around ecology, justice, collective forms of knowledge, and the possibilities of building and sustaining commons.