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. Das Leuphana College

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    11.11.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  2. Das Kunstfeld. Eine Studie über Akteure und Institutionen der zeitgenössischen Kunst

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    04.11.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Das Konzept der ästhetischen Erfahrung als soziale und politische Falle

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    07.04.2000

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  4. Das Ganze der Natur. Naturwissenschaft und Ästhetik bei Alexander von Humboldt

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    19.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  5. Das Flüchtige - Das Erinnern - Das Verschwinden

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    28.06.2013

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Das Bildnis als Gegenüber oder die Produktion von Gegenwart

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. 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

  9. Dance, Diaspora, and the Artist's Subject: Edmundo Torres' China Diabla Tradition

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Speaker)

    03.04.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. 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