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.

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Researchers

  1. Stefan Heidenreich

Activities

  1. Die demokratische Funktion des Wettbewerbs
  2. Chemical Innovation Exchange - CIEX 2019
  3. American Association of Applied Linguistics (AAAL) (Externe Organisation)
  4. Metaphern zu Medikamentenströmen in der Umwelt, von Bente Ohrt & mit Kai Niebert
  5. Fakultät Management und Technologie (Organisation)
  6. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education (Fachzeitschrift)
  7. Die Europäische Union nach Lissabon
  8. Banal Militarism – theoretical and empirical considerations
  9. 35th Hydrology and Water Resources Symposium - HWRS 2014
  10. Dekanat Fakultät S (Organisation)
  11. 5. Workshop zur Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klimaanpassungsforschung - 2011
  12. 11th Annual Colloquium of the International Association of Hydro-Environment Research and Engineering-Baden-Württemberg - 2010
  13. Einführungsvortrag im Rahmen von Teil 2 des Symposiums "Representations of the 'Other' - The Visual Anthropology of Pierre Bourdieu"
  14. Material(ität) und Klang(lichkeit) – Auf der Suche nach einer Neubestimmung musikästhetischer Grundbegriffe
  15. Workshop des Forums Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft zur „Umsetzung eines Effizienzmarktes – Wie muss ein optimales Anreizsystem ausgestaltet werden?“ - FÖS 2013
  16. "Will I call the doctor?" Offers across regional varieties of English (Universität Hannover, invited talk)
  17. Musik der Zeit. Gewaltexzesse im deutschen Gangsta Rap anhand des Beispiels Kollegah
  18. FROM WHERE I STAND. Feminist Art/Writing: Genealogies, Subjectivities, and Critique
  19. Reflexive Demokratie: eine metapolitische Reaktion auf die dritte demokratische Transformation