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

    ’... the world was becomming numerical.’: Informationsgrafik und Kunst in Dierk Schmidts ‚Die Teilung der Erde’

    Leeb, S. A., 2010, Dierk Schmidt. The Division of the Earth: Tableaux on the Legal Synopses of the Berlin Africa Conference. 1 ed. Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, p. 112-121 10 p.

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

  2. Published

    Thilo H. G. Westermann, Die Rezeption der Pan-Mythen in der bildenden Kunst zwischen Klassizismus und Moderne

    Koss, M., 24.07.2020, In: Jahrbuch der Raabe-Gesellschaft. 60, 1, p. 233-238 6 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  3. Published

    Thinking Against Nature: Nature, Ideation, and Realism between Lovecraft and Shelling

    Woodard, B., 01.01.2022, In: Logos (Russian Federation). 32, 2, p. 43-64 22 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate

    Trott, B., 12.2014, In: Development. 57, 3-4, p. 633-635 3 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  5. Published

    Ticio Escobar: Towards a Popular Art

    Benezra, K., 01.04.2022, In: Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. 4, 2, p. 86-94 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Timo Nasseri

    Gerhardt, U., 2013, Utopie beginnt im Kleinen - 12. Triennale Kleinplastik Fellbach. Dziewior, Y. & Nollert, A. (eds.). Köln: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, p. 140-141 2 p.

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

  7. Published

    "To Arlene on Wings of Love": Shared Forms of Life, Art, and Writing

    Lochner, O., 28.07.2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag, p. 117-138 22 p.

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

  8. Published

    Toleranzedikt des Fetischismus: Über "Fetischismus und Kultur" von Hartmut Böhme

    Leeb, S. A., 2007, In: Texte zur Kunst. 65, p. 161-164 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsCritical reviewsResearch

  9. Published

    Touching Things

    Söntgen, B., 2013, The challenge of the object . Die Herausforderung des Objekts: 33rd congress of the International Committee of the History of Art, Nuremberg, 15th - 20th July 2012. Großmann, G. U. & Krutisch, P. (eds.). Verlag des Germanischen Nationalmuseums, Vol. 4. p. 1188-1191 4 p. (Wissenschaftliche Beibände zum Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksArticle in conference proceedingsResearchpeer-review

  10. In preparation

    Toward a New Aesthetics: Institutional Criticism in Art Education from 1900 to Today

    Neugärtner, S. (Editor), Buchloh, B., Holert, T., Capper, E. R., Saletnik, J., Sprowl, R., Foster, N., Sadka, N., Leam, S., Watts, J., Kindsfather, E., Akoi-Jackson, B., Nogueira, I., Bruhn, K. & Schoel, M.-C., 04.2025, (In preparation) Boston/Leiden: Brill. 300 p. (Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education; vol. 18)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch