Julia Drost is a Research Director and head of the “Young Researchers” department at the German Forum for Art History (DFK Paris). She received her doctorate in 2002 from the Free University of Berlin Prof. Dr. Margarete Zimmermann with a dissertation on La Garçonne. Transformations of a literary figure. Since then, her academic work has focused on Franco-German art relations in the 19th and 20th centuries, especially art criticism around 1900 and the writings of Harry Graf Kessler, as well as the Surrealist artist Max Ernst, whose work she has researched in numerous international exhibitions and publications. For some years now, the main focus of her work has been on Surrealism as an international avant-garde and artistic, literary and philosophical movement of the 20th century. From 2014 to 2019, she directed the research project “Surrealism and Money”, in collaboration with Fabrice Flahutez, Université Lyon-Saint-Étienne and Martin Schieder, University of Leipzig. Her current research project focuses on surrealism and ecology (“Utopias and Dystopias of Nature. Ecological Thought in Surrealism”).