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

    Displacement, Monuments and Memories. Reflections on the Art of Little Warsaw

    Gerhardt, U., 09.2024, Narrative & Knowledge - Erzählen und Wissen: Manifold Modulations of History in Contemporary Art / Vielfältige Variationen von Geschichte in der zeitgenössischen . Franke, M. (ed.). Viena: VFMK Verlag für moderne Kunst, p. 180-186 7 p.

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

  2. Published

    Ostfuturistisches Erinnern: Die Transformationszeit in postsozialistischer Videokunst

    Gerhardt, U., 2024, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 232 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesMonographsResearchpeer-review

  3. Accepted/In press

    Baking Critical Understanding: Crafting Impactful Social Science Research in the Anthropocene

    Romero Ferrón, B. & Espejo, M. P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook. Association of College and Research Libraries

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksChapterpeer-review

  4. Submitted

    Depicting Women in Brazilian Social Realism: A Transnational and Computational Analysis

    Romero Ferrón, B. & Medina Fortes, L., 2025, (Submitted) In: Journal of Cultural Analytics.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    Description of Les Immatériaux

    Broeckmann, A. & Wunderlich, A., 2025.

    Research output: Working paperWorking papers

  6. Published

    D'une coopération. [About a Cooperation]: Jean-François Lyotard's work with the CCI on the exhibition Les Immatériaux

    Broeckmann, A., 01.07.2025, In: Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne. 170, p. 129-137 9 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Die Exponate in der Ausstellung Les Immatériaux

    Broeckmann, A., 2025, Eigensinnige Objekte: Virtuelle Möglichkeitsräume zwischen Aufforderung und Entzug. Breil, P. & Kronberger, A. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, p. 289-308 20 p. (Virtuelle Lebenswelten; vol. 5).

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

  8. Published

    The Making of Les Immatériaux

    Broeckmann, A., 2025, Lüneburg: meson press. 352 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologiesBook

  9. 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 Verlag. 300 p. (Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education; vol. 18)

    Research output: Books and anthologiesCollected editions and anthologiesResearch

  10. Accepted/In press

    Verbundenheit als Zwang: Die Kritische Theorie spätkapitalistischer Subjektivität im ökologischen Diskurs

    Stubenrauch, H., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung: Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe. Stubenrauch, H., Biemüller, R., Barth, T. & Heinze, T. (eds.). Campus Verlag, (Institut für Sozialforschung. Schriften).

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