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.
Das Feld der zeitgenössischen visuellen Kunst: Strukturwandel und Reproduktion
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
28.06.2013Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Das Bildnis als Gegenüber oder die Produktion von Gegenwart
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
28.09.2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Dancing in Connewitz – Transformation und Transfer in der Lehre ostdeutscher Fotografie
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker) & Klotzek, W. (Speaker)
20.04.2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
CyberKant, a Timely Response to the Eclipse of Reason by Mechanical Rationality - 2020
von Xylander, C. (Speaker)
27.08.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Curator-artist Interactions: Forms of Exchange under the Pressure of the Logic of the Market
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
14.12.2012Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
„Cultural Turn“ in der Peripherie. Die Anfänge der Kulturwissenschaften an der Hochschule Lüneburg
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
23.04.2014Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Critique Now
Mattutat, L. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
12.01.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Crisis, Conflict, Queer Studies
Trott, B. (Organiser), Laufenberg, M. (Organiser) & Trott, B. (Speaker)
11.09.2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Creating Effects. Creativity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
10.11.2006Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Crafting Experience: Exemplarity and Reproduction in Pan (1895–1900)
Koss, M. (Speaker)
21.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research