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.
Akteur-Kunst-Theorie. Kunsttheoretische Potentiale der Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie
Weinert, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Alternative Datenpraktiken zwischen Data Commons und Datensouveränität: Technopolitische Modalitäten von Teilhabe und Subjektivierung in Technokollektiven (Arbeitstitel)
Wessalowski, N. (Project manager, academic)
03.06.20 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Archivio Nicola Massimo De Feo
Nigro, R. (Coordination), Marzocca, O. (Coordination), Casale, R. (Coordination), Ciccarelli, R. (Project staff), Licinio, A. (Project staff), Marzocca, O. (Project staff), Nigro, R. (Project staff), Casale, R. (Project staff), Gadaleta, C. (Project staff), di Girolamo, C. (Project staff), Papagni, S. (Project staff) & Spagnuolo, M. (Project staff)
01.02.20 → …
Project: Research
Art, Decoloniality and Popular Knowlegde
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Teaching
Body narratives and world-making. A practice-based seminar on performance studies and art
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
02.04.24 → 03.07.24
Project: Teaching
Commodified Agency: Social Space and the Digital Value Chain
Kirchberg, V. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.04.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.16 → 31.07.21
Project: Research
Cultures of Critique: Forms, Media, Effects
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic), Beyes, T. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.21 → 30.09.25
Project: Research
Decentering Italian Colonial Heritage
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Decolonial Thought and Practice
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 04.07.23
Project: Teaching
D’EST: A Multi-Curatorial Online Platform for Video Art from the Former ‘East’ and ‘West’
Gerhardt, U. (Project manager, academic)
15.02.18 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
DFH Digital Anthropologies
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.03.19 → 31.12.19
Project: Scientific event
Die Aktualität der Romantik
Förster, Y. (Partner), Vieweg, K. (Project manager, academic) & Deiters, F.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 01.05.12
Project: Research
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Duke University - Leuphana University Gender, Queer and Transgender Studies Workshop for Doctoral Candidates
Trott, B. (Project manager, academic) & Rosenberg, G. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.23 → …
Project: Teaching
Ecologies, Collections, and Contested Heritage: (Un-)Natural History and Italian Colonial Ambitions in Africa
Schulz, V.-S. (Project manager, academic) & Gabriel, J. M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Scientific event
Elements of a Critical Theory of Media and Participation
Hörl, E. (Project manager, academic) & Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 31.10.22
Project: Research
Enlightenments German & Scottish
von Xylander, C. (Project manager, academic) & Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → …
Project: Research
Förderung der Regelprofessur im Fach Kunstgeschichte im Rahmen des Professorinnenprogramms an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
van Riesen, K. (Coordination) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.10.11 → 31.12.15
Project: Individual grant
Forschungsprojekt: Julius Meier-Graefe und die "neue" Kunstkritik
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → …
Project: Research
Immediations: Art, Media, Event
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Massumi, B. (Project manager, academic) & Manning, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.13 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Impact of Idealism. The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought
Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic)
18.02.09 → 01.10.11
Project: Research
In der Schwebe. Zu Tisch bei Edouard Manet
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.11.14 → 31.03.15
Project: Other
ISTME: In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe
Hobuß, S. (Partner)
30.10.12 → 29.10.16
Project: Research
International Conference: Judgement Practices in the Artistic Field.
Marchal, S. (Project staff) & Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic)
29.11.17 → 01.12.17
Project: Scientific event
Internationales Symposium "Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions"
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
18.01.18 → 19.01.18
Project: Scientific event
Internationale Tagung "Gustave Courbet und die Narrative der modernen Malerei“
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
27.03.19 → 29.03.19
Project: Scientific event
Internationale Tagung: Julius Meier-Graefe - Grenzgänger der Künste
Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
05.03.15 → 07.03.15
Project: Scientific event
International Research Group: The Impact of Idealism
Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic) & Boyle, N. (Coordination)
01.10.09 → 01.11.13
Project: Research
Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Nachtigall, J. (Project staff)
01.04.20 → 31.07.24
Project: Research
KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.03.25
Project: Research
Knowledge in the Arts and the Transformation of Theory
Brunner, C. (Partner), Bippus, E. (Project manager, academic) & Busch, K. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.10 → 01.05.11
Project: Research
KunstFestSpiele heute
Woisnitza, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.02.19 → 29.02.20
Project: Scientific event
Kunstkritik und Krisenrhetorik - Modellfall Kunstschriftstellerei
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic) & Marchal, S. (Project manager, academic)
24.05.16 → 07.10.20
Project: Research
Language and Performance in the Work of Hollis Frampton
Breimaier, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Lena Meyer-Bergner’s Socially Transformative Concept Of Modernity In The Global Social Transitions Of The First Half Of The 20th Century
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic) & Biberman, I. (Project staff)
01.01.21 → 30.11.25
Project: Research
Leuphana Arts Program 2015/2016
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.11.15 → 31.01.18
Project: Other
Leuphana Arts Program 2017
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
01.01.17 → 31.12.18
Project: Other
Leuphana Arts Program 2019
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony
21.12.18 → 31.03.20
Project: Other
LIAS-CAS: Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society
Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.06.22 → 31.05.27
Project: Research
Linie Figur Grund. Tanzdarstellungen bei Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mordhorst, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Media and Participation. Between demand and entitlement, TP 5: Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Bippus, E. (Partner), Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic), Nigro, R. (Partner), Ochsner, B. (Project manager, academic) & Hörl, E. (Partner)
01.10.15 → 31.07.22
Project: Research
Metabody. Media Embodiment Tékhne and Bridges of Diversity
Förster, Y. (Partner)
01.06.13 → …
Project: Research
Modern Migrants: Paintings from Europe in US Museums
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Koss, M. (Project staff) & Mariani, F. (Project staff)
01.11.19 → 31.10.27
Project: Research
Mode und Accessoires. Fetischistische Strukturen in der Malerei Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (AT)
Sawer, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
MOPP: Moral Philosophy & Politics
Schefczyk, M. (Project manager, academic)
31.01.11 → 05.12.22
Project: Research
Neocolonialism and Film
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic) & Rizk, P. (Project manager, academic)
14.10.24 → 31.01.25
Project: Teaching
Nouveau terrain d'apparition
Brunner, C. (Partner) & Courchesne, L. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.09 → 31.08.11
Project: Research
Öffentlichkeit einer Schriftstellerfamilie. Inszenierung und Repräsentanz der Familie Mann
Klinkenbusch, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Dissertation project
"Other Knowledge" in Artistic Research and Aesthetic Theory
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.17 → 30.04.23
Project: Research
Participatory Critique as Transforming and Transversal "With"
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.18 → 30.09.22
Project: Research
RCA-SP5: Performing Anonymity - Sub-Project of "Reconfiguring Anonymity - Contemporary Forms of Reciprocity, Identifiability and Accountability in Transformation"
Wuggenig, U. (Project manager, academic), Broeckmann, A. (Coordination), Knecht, M. (Project manager, academic), Bachmann, G. (Project manager, academic), Bialski, P. (Project staff), Koch, G. (Project manager, academic) & Zurawski, N. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.15 → 31.12.18
Project: Research
Phenomenality of the Unphenomenal: Neural Nets and Embodied Cognition
Förster, Y. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.15 → …
Project: Research
Pratiques de pouvoir et formes de représentation
Nigro, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.10 → 31.12.16
Project: Research
PriMus: Promovieren im Museum
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Leeb, S. (Project manager, academic) & Klinkenbusch, I. (Project staff)
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
01.01.17 → 01.09.20
Project: Research
PAESE 3.0: Provenance and Collection Research Digital - Subproject: PAESE 3.0
Rother, L. (Project manager, academic), Andratschke, C. (Partner) & Köhler, R. (Project staff)
01.11.24 → 31.10.28
Project: Research
Queer Cities: Cruising, Spaces and Encounters
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
04.04.23 → 07.07.23
Project: Teaching
Sculpture in the Augmented Field (working title)
Kölmel, M.-J. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
SFB 1512 "Intervening Arts": Artistic Way of Life as Intervention (A06)
Söntgen, B. (Project manager, academic), Woisnitza, M. (Project staff) & Kipke, A. (Project staff)
01.01.22 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Summer School: Activist Sense and Urban Ecologies of Care
Brunner, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.18 → 31.12.19
Project: Research
Tagungsreihe "Der Einfluss des Idealismus. Das Vermächtnis des nachkantianischen deutschen Denkens in Ästhetik, Literatur und Literaturtheorie"
Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.10 → 15.11.12
Project: Scientific event
LIR: The exhibition Les Immatériaux: Interdisciplinarity, Epistemology, Curatorial Subjects
Broeckmann, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.21 → 30.09.24
Project: Research
“The Word for World is Forest”: Art and Human Ecological Restoration
Daibert , R. (Project manager, academic)
17.10.23 → 01.02.24
Project: Teaching
Tischszenen: Der Tisch als Versammlungsort, Denkraum und Instrument der Ordnung.
Berroth, E. (Project manager, academic)
01.04.15 → …
Project: Dissertation project
TKG: Transformation - Kultur - Geschlecht
Hobuß, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 27.06.19
Project: Research
Transmoderne Formationen – Die Gruppe H2SO4 in Georgien der 1920er
Tchelidze, K. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
(Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dogramaci, B. (Partner), Esner, R. (Partner), Küster, B. (Partner), Langfeld, G. M. (Partner), Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (Partner), Rother, L. (Partner), Ruckdeschel, A. (Partner), Smolińska, M. (Partner) & Ströbele, U. (Partner)
01.01.19 → 31.12.25
Project: Research
Utopie-Konferenz 2018
Prien-Ribcke, S. (Project manager, academic), Precht, R. D. (Partner) & Jamme, C. (Project manager, academic)
01.05.18 → 30.04.19
Project: Scientific event
Verantwortung, Gerechtigkeit, Erinnerungskultur
Hobuß, S. (Partner), Dhouib, S. (Project manager, academic) & Jürgens, A. (Partner)
20.02.13 → 31.12.15
Project: Research
Wendländisches Leinen und Koloniales Erbe. Spurensuche einer transkulturellen Verflechtung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Söntgen, B. (Partner), Leeb, S. (Partner), Kreiseler, S. (Project manager, academic) & Stamm, R. (Project staff)
01.10.23 → 30.09.25
Project: Research