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. 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

  3. 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

  4. Vor und nach Jeanne Dielman.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  5. Rethinking “Identity Politics” and Social Movements

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    17.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  6. Jonas Mekas’ Filmdiaries.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    07.04.2019

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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    02.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  11. 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

  12. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    28.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  14. 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

  15. 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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    10.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  17. Camera Obscura (Journal)

    Kuhn, E. (Editorial Board)

    01.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  18. Linked.Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    01.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  19. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  20. 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

  21. 2018
  22. 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

  23. Primitive accumulation and general intellect

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    06.12.2018

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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  25. 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

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

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.201811.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    06.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  28. 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

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  30. Goethe-Institut Bogotá

    Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)

    07.10.201804.11.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  31. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    04.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  33. 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

  34. “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

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  36. Utopie-Konferenz 2018

    Jamme, C. (Organiser)

    20.08.201822.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  37. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

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

  38. 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

  39. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Leeb, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  40. “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

  41. Fotogramm und Faktur

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  42. Narrative Evidenz und episodische Sinnstitung

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    05.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  44. Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.201828.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  46. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  47. The Machine as Myth

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  48. Reforming the Formless

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    14.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  49. 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

  50. Producing Roma Feminist Art

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    21.04.2018

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

  51. A Body is an Archive

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    20.04.2018

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

  52. 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

  53. 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

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

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201810.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  55. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    27.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. 2017
  60. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Leeb, S. (Editor)

    12.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  61. Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    30.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  62. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Heymer, E. (Organiser)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    24.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  64. 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

  65. 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

  66. The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    16.11.201718.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA

    Jürgens, A. (Moderator)

    08.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  69. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    07.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  70. 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

  71. (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

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

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    31.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  74. Foucault trifft Latour

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  75. 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

  76. Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects

    Leeb, S. (Participant)

    13.10.2017

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

  77. Se déprendre de soi-même

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  78. Activist Sense und Praktiken des Affective Relaying

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    28.09.201729.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  79. Sorge im Kontext einer neuen Ontologie der Körper

    Hobuß, S. (Lecturer)

    22.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    06.09.201707.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  81. Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    04.09.201705.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  82. kma71 - 2017

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    01.08.201731.07.2018

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

  83. Alternatives Lernen (Leitung Gesprächsaustausch)

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Chair)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  86. Towards an Undercommons (Eco)Logistics?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  87. Bunkersalon gravity: Die Liebe als Wahrheitsverfahren

    Hobuß, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  88. Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    20.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  89. Poethics of Aesthetics and the Politics of the Concept

    Brunner, C. (Panel participant)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  90. Nazi-Era Provenance Research – Starting from Scratch

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  91. 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

  92. The BIG Dada Data

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    09.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  93. Gernica 1937–2017

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    26.04.2017

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

  94. 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

  95. Konjunkturanalyse

    Brunner, C. (Participant)

    20.04.201721.04.2017

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

  96. Michel Foucault und die Malerei von Edouard Manet.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    13.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  98. Das Flüchtige - Das Erinnern - Das Verschwinden

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  99. Drei Fragen, drei Orte: Das Erinnern

    Wuggenig, U. (Participant)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer