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.

  1. 2025
  2. From Archives to Activism: Using Data to Challenge Structures in Art Collections

    Romero, B. (Speaker) & Medina Fortes, L. (Speaker)

    24.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  3. Between Connections and Knowledge: An Approach to Culture through Graph Theory and Complex Systems

    Romero, B. (Speaker)

    17.06.2025

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  4. Vibe Coding para humanistas. Perdiendo el miedo a la IA

    Romero, B. (Speaker)

    05.06.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventExternal workshops, courses, seminarsEducation

  5. LIAS Workshop: Beyond Restitution: Indigenous Practices, Museums and Heritage

    Eduardo Dávila, S. (Organiser), Rother, L. (Organiser), Leeb, S. (Organiser), Felicitas Sabel, L. (Organiser), Moreschi, B. (Organiser) & Pitta, F. (Organiser)

    07.02.202508.02.2025

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  6. Digital Art History Consultant

    Romero, B. (Consultant)

    01.01.2025 → …

    Activity: Consultancy

  7. 2024
  8. PEAR - Provenance Event and Archives Reconciliation

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Mariani, F. (Speaker) & van Ginhoven, S. (Speaker)

    14.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  9. Internationale Perspektiven an der Schnittstelle von Provenienzforschung, Data Science und Vermittlung

    Rother, L. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  10. Webtalk Reihe: Kulturerbe und Gerechtigkeit: Die Herausforderung der Restitution

    Rother, L. (Speaker), Assmann, A. (Speaker) & Lupfer, G. (Speaker)

    05.11.2024

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  11. Provenienza e Intelligenza Artificiale (Provenance and Artificial Intelligence)

    Mariani, F. (Speaker)

    11.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationtalk or presentation in privat or public eventsResearch

  12. Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data

    Mariani, F. (Speaker), Rother, L. (Speaker) & Koss, M. (Speaker)

    09.10.2024

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

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