Professorship for Provenance Studies

Organisational unit: Professoship

Organisation profile

Research and teaching in Provenance Studies at Leuphana cover the areas of provenance, restitution, and critical museum and art market studies. In addition to examining the past, present, and future of provenance and its production, we focus primarily on the institutional frameworks in which art is collected and exhibited. Here, we are particularly interested in the role of museums in the acquisition, archiving, display, and circulation of objects. To answer these questions, we also use digital tools and explore their relevance for provenance research and art history.

Main research areas

To further the understanding of the discursive and theoretical landscape related to the circulation of artworks, we critically engage with contemporary and historical debates. Our art and cultural history perspective is equally informed by legal, sociological, and economic considerations. Here, we pay special attention to the exploration of contexts of injustice (national socialism, colonialism). We also investigate art market aspects from critical lenses, such as forgery, corruption, and discrimination.

An essential component of our teaching is the inclusion of partners and concrete research projects, such as the Provenance Lab and its experimental research. Within the framework of excursions, we not only visit exhibitions, but also the depots and restoration workshops of museums. The exchange with curators, provenance researchers, artists, and experts of the art market is thereby central.

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  1. Soziale Gerechtigkeit und relative Deprivation
  2. Central and Decentral Purchasing in Business Firms
  3. Erratum: Drugs in the environment: Emission of drugs, diagnostic aids and disinfectants into wastewater by hospitals in relation to other sources - A review
  4. The importance of ecosystem services for rural inhabitants in a changing cultural landscape in Romania
  5. Collaborative Business für unternehmensübergreifende Prozesse
  6. How Germany is phasing out lignite
  7. How organizational actors live out paradoxical tensions through power relations
  8. Unterrichtsbesprechungen im Praktikum
  9. Mit Apps gegen den Tinnitus? Ein systematisches Review zu Qualität, Interventionselementen und Techniken der Verhaltensänderung
  10. Evolution, Empowerment, and Emancipation
  11. Pharmaceuticals in the Environment
  12. Whose Body?
  13. Traits of dominant plant species drive normalized difference vegetation index in grasslands globally
  14. Branchenspezifische IT-Innovationssysteme: Von der Analyse zur Intervention - Am Beispiel des IT-Innovationssystems für Krankenhäuser in Deutschland
  15. Dryudella paulinae spec. nov. (Hymenoptera, Crabronidae) from Morocco
  16. Workshop "Hochschulmanagement"
  17. Limitations of Protected Areas Zoning in Mediterranean Cultural Landscapes Under the Ecosystem Services Approach
  18. Digital Campaigning - Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2016 im Internet
  19. Gemeinsame Ziele
  20. Noisy, narrow-band devices
  21. Wild pollinators enhance fruit set of crops regardless of honey bee abundance
  22. Meine Sprache wohnt woanders
  23. Submarine state
  24. Value-based management: a review of its conceptualizations and a research agenda toward sustainable governance
  25. Tagebücher 1871-1878
  26. Zur Effizienz von Lernprozessen
  27. Bearbeitung mathematischer Problemlöseaufgaben unterstützt durch papier- und videobasierte Lösungsbeispiele
  28. Potenziale und Grenzen von KI in (hoch-)schulischen Schreibprozessen
  29. Applying a capitals approach to understand rural development traps: A case study from post-socialist Romania
  30. Obdachlosigkeit und Wohnungsnot unter weiblichem Blickwinkel
  31. Der Flaneur in einer "quälenden Doppelwelt"
  32. Hartwig, Mela
  33. Zwischen Klugheits- und Moralgebot