Tyla Myree

Tayla Myree is a researcher in the field of history as well as a budding visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. She is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, USA but came to Austria to obtain her MA in History from Central European University and now works as a fellow at the Belvedere 21. Her current work at the Belvedere 21 focuses on enriching the museum's community outreach efforts as well as gaining experience in Vienna's arts and culture sector. Outside of the museum, her research focuses on Critical Romani Studies and African American Studies as it pertains to activism, racism, and reparations. Her art engages with these themes as well through the mediums of film, sound, and photography.

Fellowship: Belvedere Museum

Turning the Page.

Representations of Blackness from the Middle-Ages until the 20th century

In a representative portrait of Prince Eugene, in the Belvedere collection, a Black page appears at his side whose stereotypical depiction belongs to a racist pictorial tradition. In European art, Black people are often illustrated as exoticized bystanders sometimes alike mere decorative attributes. This guided tour and dialogue between the Historian Tayla Myree and Art mediator Paul Walther gives an understanding of Black representation in artwork in the of the Upper Belvedere. At the end of the tour, there will be time for a joint discussion.