Institute of Philosophy and Art History

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The institute consists of two departments: philosophy and art history.

Main research areas

Since the winter semester 2016/17, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has established a DFG Research Training Group, "Cultures of Critique. Forms, Media, Effects", in which the IPK is significantly involved (speaker: Prof. Dr. Beate Söntgen).

The Institute is also represented at the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies for Culture and Society (co-director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb) and is significantly involved in the Center for Critical Studies (speaker: Dr. Ben Trott).

With the Lichtenberg Professorship (Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Leuphana University has the first permanent full professorship dedicated entirely to questions of provenance research, looted art, and restitution.

The Kunstraum, which is connected to the Institute of Philosophy and Art History, offers a close practical connection to contemporary art and its actors.

  1. Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.11.2006

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. Crisis, Conflict, Queer Studies

    Trott, B. (Organiser), Laufenberg, M. (Organiser) & Trott, B. (Speaker)

    11.09.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  3. Critique Now

    Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)

    12.01.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  4. „Cultural Turn“ in der Peripherie. Die Anfänge der Kulturwissenschaften an der Hochschule Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    23.04.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  5. Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.12.2012

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. CyberKant, a Timely Response to the Eclipse of Reason by Mechanical Rationality - 2020

    von Xylander, C. (Speaker)

    27.08.2020

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsResearch

  7. Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker) & Klotzek, W. (Speaker)

    20.04.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  8. Das Bildnis als Gegenüber oder die Produktion von Gegenwart

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  9. Das Feld der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kunst: Strukturwandel und Reproduktion

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    28.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Das Flüchtige - Das Erinnern - Das Verschwinden

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer