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. 2019
  2. Sounding Immaterial. Sound and Listening in the Exhibition "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985).

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    20.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  3. Contemporary Art + Data

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    19.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  4. An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.

    Brunner, C. (Speaker) & Kleesattel, I. (Speaker)

    14.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  5. Open Codes? - 2019

    von Xylander, C. (Curator), Weibel, P. (Curator) & Krümmel, C. (Curator)

    13.06.201902.07.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  6. Vor und nach Jeanne Dielman.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  7. Rethinking “Identity Politics” and Social Movements

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    17.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  8. Jonas Mekas’ Filmdiaries.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    07.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsTransfer

  9. "Provenance: Can you Bank on it?"

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    02.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  10. Martovski Festival - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival

    Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)

    30.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  11. International Conference "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“

    Marchal, S. (Organiser) & Stöppel, D. (Organiser)

    27.03.201929.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  12. Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  13. Ästhetischer Genuss als Metapher populärer Kunstvermittlung - 2019

    Heymer, E. (Moderator)

    21.03.201922.03.2019

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

  14. Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object - 2019

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    15.03.201917.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  15. Methodology, Resources, Issues, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    28.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  16. Festival TOKSI-LINE: feminism – environment – geopolitics

    Gerhardt, U. (Curator)

    26.01.201927.01.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  17. Crafting Experience: Exemplarity and Reproduction in Pan (1895–1900)

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    21.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  18. Widerständige Zeit-Bilder. 1968 in Kunst und Kino.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    10.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  19. Camera Obscura (Journal)

    Kuhn, E. (Editorial Board)

    01.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  20. Linked.Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    01.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  21. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  22. spheres - Journal for Digital Cultures (Journal)

    Heinrichs, R. (Editor), Ganesh, M. I. (Editor), Lohmüller, S. (Editor), Beverungen, A. (Editor), Apprich, C. (Editor), Hille, L. (Editor) & Trott, B. (Editor)

    20192020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  23. 2018
  24. Then and Now: The 20th Anniversary of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    10.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  25. Primitive accumulation and general intellect

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    06.12.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  26. Vom "ästhetischen Bruch" und der filmischen Konstruktion einer Hausfrau.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  27. 4. Internationales Symposium - Vertagtes Erbe?

    Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Peter, S. (Organiser)

    22.11.201823.11.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  28. „Theatertechnik im Archiv am Beispiel von Piscators Bühnenkonzeptionen“.

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.201811.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. Starting from Scratch: Nazi-Era Provenance Research at The Museum of Modern Art

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    06.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  30. Modernité et pouvoir des images : l’énonçable et le visible

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    19.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  31. The Importance of Anticolonialism for '68 and International Solidarity in Art and Film

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  32. Goethe-Institut Bogotá

    Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)

    07.10.201804.11.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  33. The Body as An Indexical Reader

    Gerhardt, U. (Curator), Birkenstock, E. (Curator) & Hennig, N. (Curator)

    07.10.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  34. "Chagall on Loan: Nazi-Era Provenance Research and Art as Collateral"

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    04.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  35. Sixth Feminist Art History Conference

    Mehl, I. (Participant), Lochner, O. (Speaker) & Mehl, I. (Speaker)

    30.09.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  36. “Staging New Realities: Piscator’s Theater of Montage in the Wake of World War I”.

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    13.09.201815.09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Serial Despite Itself: "Pan" Between Deep and Differentiated Time

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. Utopie-Konferenz 2018

    Jamme, C. (Organiser)

    20.08.201822.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  39. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  40. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Schiel, N. (Organiser), Stubenrauch, H. (Participant), Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Leeb, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  42. “Staging Venice (as protagonist?) – Max Reinhardt’s Merchant of Venice (1905-1934)”.

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    08.06.201810.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  43. Fotogramm und Faktur

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Narrative Evidenz und episodische Sinnstitung

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    05.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  45. Sensing Paper: Print Culture between Pleasure and Scandal in Fin-de-Siècle Germany

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.201828.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  47. Tragische Ermüdung. Zum Problem der Kulturkritik der 1920er Jahre

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  48. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  49. The Machine as Myth

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  50. Reforming the Formless

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    14.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  51. Morgan O’Hara: Live Transmissions - 2018

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    26.04.201830.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  52. Producing Roma Feminist Art

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    21.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  53. A Body is an Archive

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    20.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  54. Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980, abest - 2018

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser) & Gründig, M. (Organiser)

    13.04.201831.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  55. Association for Art History Annual Conference - 2018

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser) & Hegenbart, D. S. (Organiser)

    07.04.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  56. Institute of Philosophy and Art History (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201810.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  57. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

  58. Vortrag im Panel “Common Ground: Provenance Research Agendas in Libraries, Archives and Museums”

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    27.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  59. The intimacy of paper: fin-de-siècle print culture and the politics of the senses

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  60. International Conference 2018 - Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions

    Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)

    18.01.201819.01.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  61. 2017
  62. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Leeb, S. (Editor)

    12.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  63. Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    30.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  64. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Heymer, E. (Organiser)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  65. Keynote: "Die Studieneingangsphase – zwischen Kompensation und produktiver Verunsicherung"

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    24.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  66. Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)

    Heymer, E. (Speaker)

    24.11.201726.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  67. Künstlerische Forschung an Hochschulen: Aushandlungen zwischen Theorie und Praxis und Modell einer performativen Wissenspraxis

    Hoop, M. (Speaker), Schmidt-Wullfen, S. (Speaker), Barboza, A. (Speaker) & Sahnwaldt, M. (Speaker)

    17.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  68. The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    16.11.201718.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  69. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  70. Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA

    Jürgens, A. (Moderator)

    08.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  71. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    07.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Gerechtigkeit oder Kritik der Macht? Der Kampf um die Gleichfreiheit und die Eroberung von Räumen der Freiheit

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    06.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. (Hi)Stories in Art after the End of the Cold War

    Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)

    03.11.201705.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  74. Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  75. The Conjuncture of „Cancel Culture“: Gender, Sexuality and „Free Speech“ Conflicts Today

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    31.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. Foucault trifft Latour

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  77. The Many Headed Hydra: When the Sea Looks Back. A Serpent’s Tale

    Gerhardt, U. (Opponent)

    19.10.201716.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsResearch

  78. Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects

    Leeb, S. (Participant)

    13.10.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  79. Se déprendre de soi-même

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Activist Sense und Praktiken des Affective Relaying

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    28.09.201729.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  81. Sorge im Kontext einer neuen Ontologie der Körper

    Hobuß, S. (Lecturer)

    22.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  82. Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    06.09.201707.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  83. Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    04.09.201705.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  84. kma71 - 2017

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    01.08.201731.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  85. Alternatives Lernen (Leitung Gesprächsaustausch)

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  86. Die 110. Infanterie-Division und das regionale kulturelle Gedächtnis

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  87. Eröffnung von "Hinterbühne III" der Ausstellung des Kunstraums

    Wuggenig, U. (Chair)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  88. Towards an Undercommons (Eco)Logistics?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  89. Bunkersalon gravity: Die Liebe als Wahrheitsverfahren

    Hobuß, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  90. Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    20.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  91. Poethics of Aesthetics and the Politics of the Concept

    Brunner, C. (Panel participant)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  92. Nazi-Era Provenance Research – Starting from Scratch

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  93. Entwicklungsworkshop: Das Leuphana Semester – eine Orientierung für die Hochschule der Zukunft (Leitung gemeinsam mit Tom Schmidt)

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    10.05.201711.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  94. The BIG Dada Data

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    09.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  95. Gernica 1937–2017

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    26.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  96. Komplizenschaft: Der Veteranenverband der 110. Infanteriedivision und die Willkommenskultur der Stadt Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    26.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsEducation

  97. Konjunkturanalyse

    Brunner, C. (Participant)

    20.04.201721.04.2017

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

  98. Michel Foucault und die Malerei von Edouard Manet.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  99. Auftakt zur Eröffnung des Zentralgebäudes von Daniel Libeskind für Studierende

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    13.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer