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. Contemporary Art + Data

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    19.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Vor und nach Jeanne Dielman.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  6. Rethinking “Identity Politics” and Social Movements

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    17.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  7. Jonas Mekas’ Filmdiaries.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    07.04.2019

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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    02.04.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    28.02.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  15. 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

  16. 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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    10.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  18. Camera Obscura (Journal)

    Kuhn, E. (Editorial Board)

    01.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  19. Linked.Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    01.2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipLearned societies and special interest organisationsTransfer

  20. Court of Arbitration for Art (External organisation)

    Rother, L. (Member)

    2019 → …

    Activity: MembershipBodies of public institutionsTransfer

  21. 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

  22. 2018
  23. 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

  24. Primitive accumulation and general intellect

    Nigro, R. (Speaker)

    06.12.2018

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

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

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  26. 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

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

    Woisnitza, M. (Speaker)

    08.11.201811.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    06.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  29. 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

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  31. Goethe-Institut Bogotá

    Leeb, S. (Visiting researcher)

    07.10.201804.11.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  32. 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

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    04.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  34. 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

  35. “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

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  37. Utopie-Konferenz 2018

    Jamme, C. (Organiser)

    20.08.201822.08.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  38. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Leeb, S. (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

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

  39. 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

  40. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Leeb, S. (Moderator)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  41. “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

  42. Fotogramm und Faktur

    Neugärtner, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  43. Narrative Evidenz und episodische Sinnstitung

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    05.06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Koss, M. (Speaker)

    06.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  45. Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.201828.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    27.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  47. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Leeb, S. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  48. The Machine as Myth

    Broeckmann, A. (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  49. Reforming the Formless

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    14.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  50. 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

  51. Producing Roma Feminist Art

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    21.04.2018

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

  52. A Body is an Archive

    Gerhardt, U. (Organiser)

    20.04.2018

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

  53. 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

  54. 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

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

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201810.2020

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  56. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Nigro, R. (Member)

    04.201803.2022

    Activity: MembershipAcademic councils, panels and committeesTransfer

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

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    27.02.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  58. 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

  59. 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

  60. 2017
  61. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Leeb, S. (Editor)

    12.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  62. Activist Sense and Affective Relaying in Alternative Media Practices

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    30.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  63. Kulturen der Kritik Conference - 2017

    Heymer, E. (Organiser)

    29.11.201701.12.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

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

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    24.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  65. 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

  66. 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

  67. The Anonymous Body of a Wretched Singularity

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    16.11.201718.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  68. Wien Depot: Podiumsdiskussion

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    09.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  69. Podiumsdiskussion zu MEDEA

    Jürgens, A. (Moderator)

    08.11.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  70. How is Research Creation as Other Knowledge?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    07.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  71. 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

  72. (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

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

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    02.11.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

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

    Trott, B. (Speaker)

    31.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  75. Foucault trifft Latour

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    27.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  76. 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

  77. Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects

    Leeb, S. (Participant)

    13.10.2017

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

  78. Se déprendre de soi-même

    Nigro, R. (Lecturer)

    12.10.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  79. Activist Sense und Praktiken des Affective Relaying

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    28.09.201729.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  80. Sorge im Kontext einer neuen Ontologie der Körper

    Hobuß, S. (Lecturer)

    22.09.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  81. Transformation - Kultur- Geschlecht

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    06.09.201707.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  82. Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht 2017

    Hobuß, S. (Organiser)

    04.09.201705.09.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesEducation

  83. kma71 - 2017

    Breimaier, A. (Organiser)

    01.08.201731.07.2018

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

  84. Alternatives Lernen (Leitung Gesprächsaustausch)

    Jürgens, A. (Speaker)

    29.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Chair)

    14.06.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  87. Towards an Undercommons (Eco)Logistics?

    Brunner, C. (Lecturer)

    08.06.201711.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  88. Bunkersalon gravity: Die Liebe als Wahrheitsverfahren

    Hobuß, S. (Speaker)

    06.06.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  89. Aspekte der Militärgeschichte der Stadt Lüneburg

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    20.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  90. Poethics of Aesthetics and the Politics of the Concept

    Brunner, C. (Panel participant)

    19.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  91. Nazi-Era Provenance Research – Starting from Scratch

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    17.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  92. 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

  93. The BIG Dada Data

    Kölmel, M.-J. (Speaker)

    09.05.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  94. Gernica 1937–2017

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    26.04.2017

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

  95. 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

  96. Konjunkturanalyse

    Brunner, C. (Participant)

    20.04.201721.04.2017

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

  97. Michel Foucault und die Malerei von Edouard Manet.

    Kuhn, E. (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

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

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    13.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  99. Das Flüchtige - Das Erinnern - Das Verschwinden

    Wuggenig, U. (Speaker)

    10.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer