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. Published

    Conflicting Evidence

    Leeb, S., 2017, Evidentiary Realism: Investigative, Forensic, And Documentary Art. Ciro, P. (ed.). 1. Auflage ed. Berlin: NOME, p. 113-120 8 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Constructing Audiences, Defining Art: The Field Experiment of the Open Public Library

    Buchholz, L. & Wuggenig, U., 2016, In: Journal of Visual Art Practise. 12, p. 12-21 10 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesTransfer

  3. Published

    Critical Stances: An Introduction to The Stakes of Form.

    Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B., 23.06.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 7-36 30 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Critique: The Stakes of Form

    Kuhn, H. (Editor), Mehl, I. (Editor), Khatib, S. (Editor), Söntgen, B. (Editor) & Lochner, O. (Editor), 28.07.2020, Zürich/Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag. 352 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  5. Published

    Critique de la morale sacerdotale et pouvoir pastoral

    Nigro, R., 2023, In: Cahiers Philosophiques. 175, p. 117-128 32 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Critique. Enlightenment. Parrhesia. Michel Foucault’s Questioning of The Concepts of Person and Humanity in Kant’s Works

    Rainsborough, M., 23.10.2023, The Kantian Subject: New Interpretative Essays. Silva, F. M. F. & Caranti, L. (eds.). Taylor and Francis Inc., p. 132-142 11 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  7. Published

    Cultural Globalization between Myth and Reality: The Case of the Contemporary Visual Arts

    Buchholz, L. & Wuggenig, U., 2005, In: ART-e-FACT : Strategies of Resistance. 04, 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  8. Published

    Cultural Studies und Kulturwissenschaften

    Wuggenig, U., 1998, In: Merz Akademie. 2, p. 43-56 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearch

  9. Published

    Culture and Capital: Claire Bishop: Place in Plunderland: Claire Bishop on the Shed

    Kipke, A., 2022, Why Art Criticism? : A Reader. Söntgen, B. & Voss, J. (eds.). 1. Auflage ed. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, p. 428-437 10 p. (Zeitgenössische Kunst).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesResearch

  10. Published

    Dada Data: Contemporary Art in the Era of Post-Truth Politics

    Hegenbart, S. (Editor) & Kölmel, M.-J. (Editor), 23.02.2023, Bloomsbury Academic. 304 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch