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.
- 2019
Arab Academy for Science and Technology and Maritime Transport
Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)
07.09.2019 → 13.09.2019Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Education
“Identity Politics” and “Universalism” in Social Movements Today
Trott, B. (Speaker)
06.09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Colonial Archaeology
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
09.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
How to Organize Well? Participatory Platforms, New Modes of Value, Municipalist Movements.
Brunner, C. (Speaker)
16.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Politics of Love: Queer Debt
Trott, B. (Speaker)
05.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Kunstgeschichte und kuratorische Arbeit – Zu Ian White: Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object im Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin (15 – 17. März 2019)
Breimaier, A. (Oral presentation)
04.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
D’EST at Scriptings: Lene Markusen, Sisters Alike. Female Identities in Post-Utopian
Gerhardt, U. (Opponent)
03.07.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
Time and Space of Technopolitics
wessalowski, N. (Speaker)
26.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Zugang! Kunstprojekte für das französische Minitel-System, 1985
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
22.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Sounding Immaterial. Sound and Listening in the Exhibition "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985).
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
20.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Contemporary Art + Data
Rother, L. (Speaker)
19.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
An Aesthetics of the Earth. Reframing relational Aesthetics considering critical Ecologies.
Brunner, C. (Speaker) & Kleesattel, I. (Speaker)
14.06.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Open Codes? - 2019
von Xylander, C. (Curator), Weibel, P. (Curator) & Krümmel, C. (Curator)
13.06.2019 → 02.07.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Vor und nach Jeanne Dielman.
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
23.05.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Rethinking “Identity Politics” and Social Movements
Trott, B. (Speaker)
17.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Jonas Mekas’ Filmdiaries.
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
07.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Transfer
"Provenance: Can you Bank on it?"
Rother, L. (Speaker)
02.04.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Martovski Festival - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
30.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
International Conference "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“
Marchal, S. (Organiser) & Stöppel, D. (Organiser)
27.03.2019 → 29.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
27.03.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Ästhetischer Genuss als Metapher populärer Kunstvermittlung - 2019
Heymer, E. (Moderator)
21.03.2019 → 22.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object - 2019
Breimaier, A. (Organiser)
15.03.2019 → 17.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Methodology, Resources, Issues, and Challenges in Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Rother, L. (Speaker)
28.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Participant of the Panel Discussion in conjunction with the conference "Die Galerie Stern im Kontext des Rheinischen Kunsthandels während des Nationalsozialismus"
Rother, L. (Speaker)
13.02.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Festival TOKSI-LINE: feminism – environment – geopolitics
Gerhardt, U. (Curator)
26.01.2019 → 27.01.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › 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
Widerständige Zeit-Bilder. 1968 in Kunst und Kino.
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
10.01.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Camera Obscura (Journal)
Kuhn, E. (Editorial Board)
01.2019Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Linked.Art (External organisation)
Rother, L. (Member)
01.2019 → …Activity: Membership › Learned societies and special interest organisations › Transfer
Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)
Rother, L. (Member)
2019 → …Activity: Membership › Bodies of public institutions › Transfer
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)
2019 → 2020Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
- 2018
Then and Now: The 20th Anniversary of the Washington Conference on Holocaust-Era Assets
Rother, L. (Speaker)
10.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
Primitive accumulation and general intellect
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
06.12.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
Wissens-und Forschungspolitiken in den Künsten –Die Institutionalisierung von künstlerischer Forschung im deutschsprachigen Raum
Hoop, M. (Speaker)
30.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vom "ästhetischen Bruch" und der filmischen Konstruktion einer Hausfrau.
Kuhn, E. (Speaker)
28.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
4. Internationales Symposium - Vertagtes Erbe?
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Peter, S. (Organiser)
22.11.2018 → 23.11.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
„Theatertechnik im Archiv am Beispiel von Piscators Bühnenkonzeptionen“.
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
08.11.2018 → 11.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Starting from Scratch: Nazi-Era Provenance Research at The Museum of Modern Art
Rother, L. (Speaker)
06.11.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Modernité et pouvoir des images : l’énonçable et le visible
Nigro, R. (Speaker)
19.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › talk or presentation in privat or public events › Research
The Importance of Anticolonialism for '68 and International Solidarity in Art and Film
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
18.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Goethe-Institut Bogotá
Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)
07.10.2018 → 04.11.2018Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution › Transfer
The Body as An Indexical Reader
Gerhardt, U. (Curator), Birkenstock, E. (Curator) & Hennig, N. (Curator)
07.10.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
"Chagall on Loan: Nazi-Era Provenance Research and Art as Collateral"
Rother, L. (Speaker)
04.10.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Studienbrief für das Mastermodul Performativität der Fakultät Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaft, FernUniversität Hagen.
Woisnitza, M. (Consultant) & Wälchli, T. (Consultant)
10.2018 → 02.2019Activity: Consultancy
Sixth Feminist Art History Conference
Mehl, I. (Participant), Lochner, O. (Speaker) & Mehl, I. (Speaker)
30.09.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Staging New Realities: Piscator’s Theater of Montage in the Wake of World War I”.
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
13.09.2018 → 15.09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Serial Despite Itself: "Pan" Between Deep and Differentiated Time
Koss, M. (Speaker)
09.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Jamme, C. (Organiser)
20.08.2018 → 22.08.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
The Future of the Kunstraum
Leeb, S. (Organiser)
29.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Kuhn, H. (Organiser), Schiel, N. (Organiser), Stubenrauch, H. (Participant), Warnsholdt, C. L. (Organiser) & Mattutat, L. (Organiser)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Conference "Critical Stances" 2018
Leeb, S. (Moderator)
21.06.2018 → 23.06.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
“Staging Venice (as protagonist?) – Max Reinhardt’s Merchant of Venice (1905-1934)”.
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
08.06.2018 → 10.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Fotogramm und Faktur
Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)
06.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Narrative Evidenz und episodische Sinnstitung
Jürgens, A. (Speaker)
05.06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Sensing Paper: Print Culture between Pleasure and Scandal in Fin-de-Siècle Germany
Koss, M. (Speaker)
06.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
27.05.2018 → 28.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Tragische Ermüdung. Zum Problem der Kulturkritik der 1920er Jahre
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
27.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History
Leeb, S. (Speaker)
15.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Machine as Myth
Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)
15.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Reforming the Formless
Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)
14.05.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Morgan O’Hara: Live Transmissions - 2018
Breimaier, A. (Organiser)
26.04.2018 → 30.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Producing Roma Feminist Art
Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)
21.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
A Body is an Archive
Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)
20.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980, abest - 2018
Breimaier, A. (Organiser) & Gründig, M. (Organiser)
13.04.2018 → 31.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Association for Art History Annual Conference - 2018
Kölmel, M.-J. (Organiser) & Hegenbart, D. S. (Organiser)
07.04.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Institute of Philosophy and Art History (Organisational unit)
Nigro, R. (Member)
04.2018 → 10.2020Activity: Membership › Leuphana academic councils and committees › Leuphana Academic Committees
School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)
Nigro, R. (Member)
04.2018 → 03.2022Activity: Membership › Academic councils, panels and committees › Transfer
„‚Hohe Bilder vor der Seele‘: Kleists Dramaturgie kollektiv-politischer Einbildungskraft unter dem Einfluss der ‚Kantischen Philosophie‘“.
Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)
01.03.2018 → 02.03.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
Vortrag im Panel “Common Ground: Provenance Research Agendas in Libraries, Archives and Museums”
Rother, L. (Speaker)
27.02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Transfer
The intimacy of paper: fin-de-siècle print culture and the politics of the senses
Koss, M. (Speaker)
02.2018Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
International Conference 2018 - Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions
Leeb, S. (Organiser) & Söntgen, B. (Organiser)
18.01.2018 → 19.01.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
- 2017
Texte zur Kunst (Journal)
Leeb, S. (Editor)
12.2017Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editor of journals › Research
Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices
Brunner, C. (Lecturer)
30.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017
Heymer, E. (Organiser)
29.11.2017 → 01.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Keynote: "Die Studieneingangsphase – zwischen Kompensation und produktiver Verunsicherung"
Jürgens, A. (Speaker)
24.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Positiv/Negativ-Dialog. (mit Rebecca Ardner, Oona Lochner, Isabel Mehl, Aliya Rayyan, Heiko Stubenrauch)
Heymer, E. (Speaker)
24.11.2017 → 26.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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)
17.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity
Brunner, C. (Lecturer)
16.11.2017 → 18.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
09.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA
Jürgens, A. (Moderator)
08.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?
Brunner, C. (Lecturer)
07.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Gerechtigkeit oder Kritik der Macht? Der Kampf um die Gleichfreiheit und die Eroberung von Räumen der Freiheit
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
06.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
(Hi)Stories in Art after the End of the Cold War
Gerhardt, U. (Speaker)
03.11.2017 → 05.11.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Transfer
Erfindung des Gemeinsamen: zur Kritik des Privaten und des Öffentlichen
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
02.11.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Conjuncture of „Cancel Culture“: Gender, Sexuality and „Free Speech“ Conflicts Today
Trott, B. (Speaker)
31.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Foucault trifft Latour
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
27.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
The Many Headed Hydra: When the Sea Looks Back. A Serpent’s Tale
Gerhardt, U. (Opponent)
19.10.2017 → 16.12.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Research
Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects
Leeb, S. (Participant)
13.10.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › trade fairs and exhibitions › Transfer
Se déprendre de soi-même
Nigro, R. (Lecturer)
12.10.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Activist Sense und Praktiken des Affective Relaying
Brunner, C. (Lecturer)
28.09.2017 → 29.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Sorge im Kontext einer neuen Ontologie der Körper
Hobuß, S. (Lecturer)
22.09.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
06.09.2017 → 07.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017
Hobuß, S. (Organiser)
04.09.2017 → 05.09.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Education
kma71 - 2017
Breimaier, A. (Organiser)
01.08.2017 → 31.07.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
Alternatives Lernen (Leitung Gesprächsaustausch)
Jürgens, A. (Speaker)
29.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Die 110. Infanterie-Division und das regionale kulturelle Gedächtnis
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
14.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
Eröffnung von "Hinterbühne III" der Ausstellung des Kunstraums
Wuggenig, U. (Chair)
14.06.2017Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › Conferences › Research
Towards an Undercommons (Eco)Logistics?
Brunner, C. (Lecturer)
08.06.2017 → 11.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Research
Bunkersalon gravity: Die Liebe als Wahrheitsverfahren
Hobuß, S. (Speaker)
06.06.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer
Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg
Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)
20.05.2017Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Transfer