Professorship for Art History
Organisational unit: Professoship
Organisation profile
Research and teaching at the Professorship for Art History focuses on the history and theory of art from the Renaissance through Modernism and Postmodernism to the contemporary period. The art of the 20th and 21st centuries is in the foreground. Beyond the classical objects of art history – painting, graphics, sculpture – diverse forms of visual culture are also the subject of study, such as object art, arts and crafts, design, photography, video, installation, performance and new media.
Main research areas
In addition to the historical classification and the art-scientifically based interpretation of these various arts, media and creative spaces of action, there is a special focus on the contexts of use of artistic design. This includes in particular thinking about the social interconnections of artistic practices, institutions and actors under specific political and economic conditions. Central to this is the connection between historical research and current issues. In this way, the Professorship for Art History opens up participation in contemporary social debates in which art and visual cultures develop their meaning and function.
The connection to concrete projects, such as the university's Kunstraum, and the direct work in front of originals in the context of excursions are an important part of the studies. Through the exchange with artists and curators and the transfer of the place of study into institutional spaces of action of the arts, professional fields of practice are to be tested and developed.
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
Die Experimentalkultur in einer Seifenblase. Das epistemische Potenzial in Chardins Malerei
Hosseini, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
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
KHI-Project "Artistic Practices as Logistical Inversions"
Neugärtner, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 31.03.25
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
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
Linie Figur Grund. Tanzdarstellungen bei Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Mordhorst, S. (Project manager, academic)
01.07.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Mode und Accessoires. Fetischistische Strukturen in der Malerei Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (AT)
Sawer, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.11 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Öffentlichkeit einer Schriftstellerfamilie. Inszenierung und Repräsentanz der Familie Mann
Klinkenbusch, I. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.17 → …
Project: Dissertation project
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
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
Transmoderne Formationen – Die Gruppe H2SO4 in Georgien der 1920er
Tchelidze, K. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
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