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.
- 2026
- Accepted/In press
Provenance as Accountability: Transparent and Verifiable Cataloguing for the Digital Age
Rother, L., Koss, M. & Mariani, F., 03.2026, (Accepted/In press) Research Handbook on Art, Culture and Heritage Law. Vigneron, S., Ulph, J. & Maget Dominicé, A. (eds.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, p. 441-457 16 p. (Research Handbooks in Law and Society).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
- Accepted/In press
Curating the Algorithm: An Educational Encounter with AI and Art Exhibitions
Romero-Ferrón, B. & Rodríguez Ortega, N., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Anthology Art History and Artificial Intelligence. Palgrave MacmillanResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
Discomfort in the Italian Operaism: The Nietzschean Legacy in the Work of Nicola Massimo De Feo
Nigro, R., 2026, (Accepted/In press) The Resistible Crisis of Italian Thought. Dal Bo, F. & Salzini, C. (eds.). SUNY Press, p. 35–54Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Published
Postwachstum gestalten: designethnografische Perspektiven auf Prototypen des gesellschaftlichen Wandels
Ibach, M., 2026, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 271 p. (Design; vol. 62)Research output: Books and anthologies › Monographs › Research
- Accepted/In press
Regressing to Nature. Culture Industry and Fascism in Times of Ecological Crisis
Stubenrauch, H., 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: Constellations. An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- In preparation
Scenes of the Avant-Garde: Networks, Temporalities and Transformational Power
Söntgen, B. (Editor), Volz, J. (Editor) & Tchelidze, K. (Editor), 2026, (In preparation) Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. (Critical Stances)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Accepted/In press
Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung: eine Programmatik
Stubenrauch, H., Biemüller, R., Barth, T. & Heinze, T., 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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
Subjekte der ökologischen Verwüstung: Kritische Theorie der Klimakatastrophe
Stubenrauch, H. (Editor), Heinze, T. (Editor), Biemüller, R. (Editor) & Barth, T. (Editor), 2026, (Accepted/In press) Campus Verlag. (Schriften. Institut für Sozialforschung)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- 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/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Accepted/In press
What's in a Name? Measuring the Potential of Provenance Data for Art Market Studies and the History of Collecting
Koss, M., Romero-Ferrón, B. & Rother, L., 2026, (Accepted/In press) Hand and Glove: Art Market Studies and the History of Collecting. Degen, N. & Brooks, B. (eds.). Brill Verlag, (Studies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter
- 2025
- Published
Farbschluchten: Anna Kipke über Katharina Grosse in den Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Kipke, A., 12.2025, In: Texte zur Kunst. 35, 140, p. 199–202 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer
- Published
Kritische Philosophiegeschichte
Hahn, T. (Editor), Nigro, R. (Editor) & Szasz, C. (Editor), 08.2025, Zürich: Diaphanes Verlag. 293 p. (Critical Stances)Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- 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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
- Published
Ecologies of Recovery: Mónica de Miranda’s As If the World Had No West
Schulz, V.-S., 15.06.2025, In: Art Review Oxford. 2025, 12, p. 31–37Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
- 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 anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
- Published
Walking Text and Writing Space: Reflections on Ladinidad in Guatemala
Eduardo, N. D. C. & Eduardo Dávila, S., 31.03.2025, Raum - Theorie - Empirie: Ein Arbeitsbuch. Dlabaja, C., Nimführ, S. & Goez, N. (eds.). Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, p. 209–228 20 p. (Forschung und Praxis an der FHWien der WKW).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research › peer-review
- Published
Description of Les Immatériaux
Broeckmann, A. & Wunderlich, A., 26.03.2025, (Les Immateriaux Research - Working Papers; no. 12).Research output: Working paper › Working papers
- 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 LibrariesResearch output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Chapter › peer-review
- Published
Cartografías entrelazadas: modelar la transnacionalidad en el ecosistema expositivo español (2000-2023) mediante análisis de redes
Rodríguez Ortega, N. & Romero-Ferrón, B., 2025, VII Congreso de la Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas Compromiso cívico y social de las Humanidades Digitales. Fernández Rodríguez, D., Huertas Martín, V. & Massanet Rodríguez, R. (eds.). I ed. Valencia: University of Valencia, p. 163-172 10 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Published abstract in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
- 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 contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review