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. 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

  3. Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. 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

  5. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    28.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  7. 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

  8. 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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    10.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  10. Camera Obscura (Journal)

    Kuhn, E. (Editorial Board)

    01.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  11. Linked.Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    01.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  12. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  13. 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

  14. 2018
  15. 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

  16. Primitive accumulation and general intellect

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    06.12.2018

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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. 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

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

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.201811.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    06.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  21. 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

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  23. Goethe-Institut Bogotá

    Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)

    07.10.201804.11.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  24. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    04.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  26. 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

  27. “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

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. Utopie-Konferenz 2018

    Jamme, C. (Organiser)

    20.08.201822.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  30. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

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

  31. 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

  32. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Leeb, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  33. “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

  34. Fotogramm und Faktur

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  35. Narrative Evidenz und episodische Sinnstitung

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    05.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.201828.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  39. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  40. The Machine as Myth

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  41. Reforming the Formless

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    14.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  42. 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

  43. Producing Roma Feminist Art

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    21.04.2018

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

  44. A Body is an Archive

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    20.04.2018

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

  45. 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

  46. 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

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

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201810.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  48. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    27.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  50. 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

  51. 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

  52. 2017
  53. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Leeb, S. (Editor)

    12.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  54. Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    30.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  55. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Heymer, E. (Organiser)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    24.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  57. 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

  58. 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

  59. The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    16.11.201718.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  60. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  61. Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA

    Jürgens, A. (Moderator)

    08.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  62. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    07.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  63. 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

  64. (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

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

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    31.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  67. Foucault trifft Latour

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. 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

  69. Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects

    Leeb, S. (Participant)

    13.10.2017

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

  70. Se déprendre de soi-même

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  71. Activist Sense und Praktiken des Affective Relaying

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    28.09.201729.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  72. Sorge im Kontext einer neuen Ontologie der Körper

    Hobuß, S. (Lecturer)

    22.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  73. Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    06.09.201707.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  74. Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    04.09.201705.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  75. kma71 - 2017

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    01.08.201731.07.2018

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

  76. Alternatives Lernen (Leitung Gesprächsaustausch)

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Chair)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  79. Towards an Undercommons (Eco)Logistics?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Bunkersalon gravity: Die Liebe als Wahrheitsverfahren

    Hobuß, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  81. Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    20.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  82. Poethics of Aesthetics and the Politics of the Concept

    Brunner, C. (Panel participant)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  83. Nazi-Era Provenance Research – Starting from Scratch

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  84. 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

  85. The BIG Dada Data

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    09.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  86. Gernica 1937–2017

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    26.04.2017

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

  87. 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

  88. Konjunkturanalyse

    Brunner, C. (Participant)

    20.04.201721.04.2017

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

  89. Michel Foucault und die Malerei von Edouard Manet.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    13.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  91. Das Flüchtige - Das Erinnern - Das Verschwinden

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  92. Drei Fragen, drei Orte: Das Erinnern

    Wuggenig, U. (Participant)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  93. Reworking the Posthuman in Contemporary Sculpture

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    08.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  94. "A Woman Sitting After Killing" (2001). Reviewing Chantal Akerman's "Jeanne Dielman" (1976).

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    04.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  95. Tagung "Differenz - Gleichheit - Wandel" 2017

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    03.04.201705.04.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  96. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    23.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  97. Art History Institute in Florence of the Max Planck Society

    Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)

    20.03.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  98. Forschungsbericht zur NS-Vergangenheit

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    11.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  99. Hinterbühne I: »Ozarichi, März 1944«, »Megalothymia«, »Die Archive der Großeltern«

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    08.03.2017

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