Professorship for Contemporary Art

Organisational unit: Section

Organisation profile

Research and teaching at the Professorship of Contemporary Art focuses on art from the 1960s to the present. We understand art as a material and an intellectual practice, which requires an intensive engagement with artistic processes as well as a reflection on theories of art and culture and socio-political discussions. The emphasis of the professorship is placed on the transcultural interconnections of art, decoloniality, gender issues, art theory, and art criticism.

  1. 1968 and the consequences for a Postcolonial Art History

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  2. 3D und die Kino-Höhle. Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    28.05.201401.06.2014

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

  3. 4. Internationales Symposium - Vertagtes Erbe?

    Susanne Leeb (Organiser) & Stefanie Peter (Organiser)

    22.11.201823.11.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  4. A lecture

    Anne Breimaier (Artist)

    01.03.2015

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  5. Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport

    Susanne Leeb (Visiting researcher)

    07.09.201913.09.2019

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  6. Art History Institute in Florence of the Max Planck Society

    Susanne Leeb (Visiting researcher)

    20.03.201731.03.2017

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionResearch

  7. Artist Talk: Edgar Calel - Laberinto de los pájaros

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker) & Edgar Calel (Speaker)

    08.09.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  8. Artist Talk: Marilyn Boror - On the Power of Names

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker) & Marilyn Boror (Speaker)

    22.11.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  9. "A Woman Sitting After Killing" (2001). Reviewing Chantal Akerman's "Jeanne Dielman" (1976).

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    04.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  10. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    01.12.2011

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  11. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2012

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  12. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2006

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  13. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2007

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  14. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2008

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  15. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  16. b-books (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    20052030

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of seriesResearch

  17. Border - the videographic traces by Laura Waddington as a cinematographic memorial.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    30.08.200901.09.2009

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  18. 'Branches of an Imaginary Marimba'. The Force of Syncretism in Contemporary Art

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)

    22.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  19. Breer, Jonas Mekas und das filmische Tagebuch.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    15.11.2011

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

  20. Camera Obscura (Journal)

    Eva Kuhn (Editorial Board)

    01.2019

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  21. Colonial Archaeology

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    09.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  22. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    23.03.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  23. Combing Wind, Adorning Water. Afro-Indigenous Approximations in the Art Practices of Edgar Calel and Sandra Monterroso

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)

    25.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  24. Conference "Critical Stances" 2018

    Susanne Leeb (Moderator)

    21.06.201823.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  25. Conference - Renewable Futures Conference

    Andreas Broeckmann (Organiser)

    06.10.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  26. Das Bildnis als Gegenüber oder die Produktion von Gegenwart

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    28.09.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  27. Das Unding. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art

    Susanne Leeb (Oral presentation)

    10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  28. diaphanes (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    2009

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of unfinished anthology/collectionResearch

  29. Die Ausstellung „Les Immatériaux“ (Paris, 1985) als Station künstlerischer Forschung

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    06.06.2023

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

  30. Different stories, same actors? Challenges of rewriting transcultural Art History

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    09.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  31. Disturbing Objects, Disquiet Objects

    Susanne Leeb (Participant)

    13.10.2017

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  32. Eröffnung des Symposiums "Zur Schwierigkeit des Vergessens. Das Kino von Chantal Akerman"

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    20.10.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  33. Exhibition 2022 - Carrie Mae Weems

    Susanne Leeb (presenter)

    01.04.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  34. Film-Diary/Diary-Film. Autobiografische Tendenzen im Experimental- und Avantgardefilm.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    26.11.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  35. Filme von Jack Goldstein, Einführender Vortrag im Rahmen der Filmreihe „Details“.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    28.03.2006

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

  36. Filmische Gedichte von Werner von Mutzenbecher.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    13.12.2008

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

  37. Formen in globaler Perspektive - Impulsvortrag

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    24.03.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  38. Frauen und Film (Journal)

    Eva Kuhn (Editor)

    01.01.2023

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  39. Frauen und Film (Journal)

    Eva Kuhn (Editor)

    2023

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  40. Glimpses und Haikus,die filmische Augenblickspoetik von Jonas Mekas.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    07.11.2015

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

  41. Goethe-Institut Bogotá

    Susanne Leeb (Visiting researcher)

    07.10.201804.11.2018

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionTransfer

  42. Gutachten Tenure Track

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  43. Gutachten Tenure Track

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  44. Hafnargata - eine fotografische Wegstrecke.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    27.05.2011

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

  45. Haunting the Nation State. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    31.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  46. Hegel and Haiti: Critique of Enlightenment Philosophy beyond Apologia and Condemnation

    Liza Mattutat (Organiser) & Susanne Leeb (Organiser)

    22.06.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  47. Histories of Media Art (Networking) in Deep Europe in the 1990s

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    10.07.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  48. Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980, abest - 2018

    Anne Breimaier (Organiser) & Matthias Gründig (Organiser)

    13.04.201831.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  49. Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object - 2019

    Anne Breimaier (Organiser)

    15.03.201917.03.2019

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  50. Interdisciplinarity in curatorial networks

    Andreas Broeckmann (Organiser) & Lívia Nolasco-Rozsas (Organiser)

    23.02.202324.02.2023

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

  51. International Conference 2018 - Narrating Culture(s) in Museums and Exhibitions

    Susanne Leeb (Organiser) & Beate Söntgen (Organiser)

    18.01.201819.01.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  52. International Program Committee/Art Jury

    Andreas Broeckmann (Reviewer)

    10.06.202116.06.2022

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  53. Jeff (Rear Window) – ein immobilisierter Handlungsträger zwischen Bewegungsbild und Zeitbild.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    16.12.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  54. Jonas Mekas’ Filmdiaries.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    07.04.2019

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

  55. Jonas Mekas' glittering Home-Movies: Interaction - Fragmentation - Composition.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    11.12.201412.12.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  56. kma71 - 2017

    Anne Breimaier (Organiser)

    01.08.201731.07.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  57. Kolonialisierungen des Ästhetischen (Colonializations of the Aesthetic) 2014

    Anne Breimaier (Organiser)

    17.04.201414.07.2014

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

  58. Konferenz 2018 - Neolithische Kindheit

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    27.05.201828.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  59. Kopietheater by Ian White - 2010

    Anne Breimaier (Speaker)

    20.02.2008

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  60. Kritik des Maschinenmythos und der Maschinenkunst

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    05.06.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  61. Kunstbeirat

    Susanne Leeb (Consultant)

    05.202204.2025

    Activity: Consultancy

  62. La scénografie des "Immatériaux"

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    18.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  63. Laudatio für Eric Hattan

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    21.09.2016

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

  64. Les Immatériaux, History of an Exhibition

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    01.12.2021

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

  65. Les Immatériaux – jenseits des Körpers und diesseits der Sprache

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    30.11.2022

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

  66. « Les Immatériaux, pourquoi ? »

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    25.05.2023

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

  67. Le Théâtre du Non-Corps. En conversation avec Jean-Claude Fall.

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    08.07.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  68. Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Susanne Leeb (Office)

    07.2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  69. Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization 2020

    Anne Breimaier (Speaker)

    10.12.2020

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

  70. Maintenance (Art-)Work and the Production of Presence

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    10.05.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  71. Marie Menken: Andy Warhol, zur Farbe in Film und Kino.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    05.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  72. Maschinenmythos und Maschinenästhetik

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    15.04.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  73. Methodology of researching historical exhibitions

    Andreas Broeckmann (Organiser) & Lívia Nolasco-Rozsas (Organiser)

    16.03.202317.03.2023

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

  74. Michel Foucault und die Malerei von Edouard Manet.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    19.04.2017

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  75. Mitglied des Beirats Bildende Kunst Goethe Institut

    Susanne Leeb (Consultant)

    05.202204.2025

    Activity: Consultancy

  76. Morgan O’Hara: Live Transmissions - 2018

    Anne Breimaier (Organiser)

    26.04.201830.05.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  77. Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    27.03.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  78. Optical Calculus

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    06.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  79. ÖYVIND FAHLSTRÖM - Avantgarde, Pop & Politics

    Eva Kuhn (Curator)

    01.04.202225.04.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventartistic eventsTransfer

  80. Peter Liechti's Ton- und Bild- und Denkgeflechte. Eine Einführung zu „Hans im Glück. Drei Versuche das Rauchen aufzugeben“

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    17.10.2014

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

  81. Projektantrag

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    01.2021

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  82. Projektbegutachtung

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    2021 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  83. Reading Film and Performing Text: Hollis Frampton’s Poiesis

    Anne Breimaier (Oral presentation)

    23.03.2016

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  84. Researching Historical Exhibitions. The Example of Les Immatériaux

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    16.03.2023

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

  85. Restituting Coevalness

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    10.11.2014

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  86. Revisiting Les Immatériaux

    Andreas Broeckmann (Organiser) & Marcella Lista (Organiser)

    09.06.202310.06.2023

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

  87. Robots versus Machines

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    19.11.2020

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  88. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group (Publisher)

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    05.2020

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workPeer review of publicationenResearch

  89. Schichten und der Zwischenraum. Scheiben im 3D-Film.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    23.01.201524.01.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  90. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Susanne Leeb (Office)

    201703.2022

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  91. School of Culture and Society (Organisational unit)

    Susanne Leeb (Office)

    10.2022 → …

    Activity: MembershipLeuphana academic councils and committeesLeuphana Academic Committees

  92. Sounding Immaterial. Sound and Listening in the Exhibition "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985).

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    20.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  93. Subjektivität und Selbstreflexion. Drei Formen von Film-Ichs.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    24.06.201026.06.2010

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  94. Symbolische Rückgabe. Zum Vermögen und Unvermögen der zeitgenössischen Kunst im postkolonialen Zusammenhang

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    15.12.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  95. Symposium - New Old Properties

    Susanne Leeb (Organiser) & Stefanie Peter (Organiser)

    05.05.202206.05.2022

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  96. Syncretism in the study of contemporary art from the Americas

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)

    15.11.2023

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

  97. Technoscience – Domination – Resistance (Lyotard, Haraway).

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    08.07.2022

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  98. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    12.2009

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  99. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    09.2013

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  100. Texte zur Kunst (Journal)

    Susanne Leeb (Editor)

    12.2017

    Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial workEditor of journalsResearch

  101. The Anamnesis of Matter. Lyotard and the immatériaux

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    03.12.2021

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  102. The Challenges of Xibalbá. Contemporary Art Practices between Chixot (Guatemala) and the Underworld of Art

    Sebastián Eduardo (Speaker)

    28.04.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsTransfer

  103. The curatorial network of Les Immatériaux

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    23.02.2023

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

  104. The Digital Image Research Program

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    16.11.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  105. The Exhibition Les Immatériaux (Paris, 1985)

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    27.02.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesEducation

  106. The Future of the Kunstraum

    Susanne Leeb (Organiser)

    29.06.2018

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  107. The Importance of Anticolonialism for '68 and International Solidarity in Art and Film

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    18.10.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesTransfer

  108. The Machine as Myth

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    15.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  109. The Place of Les Immatériaux in the Exhibition History of Media Art, Science and Technology

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    13.09.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  110. The Place of Les Immatériaux in the Histories of Exhibitions

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    09.06.2023

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

  111. The Ta Moko as a Figure of Art History

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    10.02.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  112. The Value of Time and the Production of Heritage

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    13.10.2015

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  113. Touching Land. Creative Practices for Planetary Be/Longings

    Sebastián Eduardo (Organiser) & Véliz Marivi (Organiser)

    25.05.2023

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesTransfer

  114. Tragische Ermüdung. Zum Problem der Kulturkritik der 1920er Jahre

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    27.05.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  115. Tribunalism - 2021

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker) & Clemens Krümmel (Curator)

    07.10.202121.11.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventtrade fairs and exhibitionsTransfer

  116. Tribunalism - 2021

    Susanne Leeb (Organiser) & Clemens Krümmel (Curator)

    07.10.202109.10.2021

    Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic eventConferencesResearch

  117. Undoing Ethnographic and Archaological Objects

    Susanne Leeb (Speaker)

    26.10.201928.10.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  118. University of Abomey-Calavi

    Susanne Leeb (Visiting researcher)

    01.201202.2012

    Activity: Visiting an external institutionVisiting an external academic institutionEducation

  119. Vergleichendes Gutachten

    Susanne Leeb (Reviewer)

    2020 → …

    Activity: Other expert activitiesAcademic ConsultantResearch

  120. Vom "ästhetischen Bruch" und der filmischen Konstruktion einer Hausfrau.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    28.11.2018

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  121. Vor und nach Jeanne Dielman.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    23.05.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  122. Widerständige Zeit-Bilder. 1968 in Kunst und Kino.

    Eva Kuhn (Speaker)

    10.01.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationGuest lecturesResearch

  123. Widerständigkeit der Immaterialien. Inszenierung und Eigensinn der Exponate in "Les Immatériaux" (Paris, 1985)

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    01.12.2023

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch

  124. Zugang! Kunstprojekte für das französische Minitel-System, 1985

    Andreas Broeckmann (Speaker)

    22.06.2019

    Activity: Talk or presentationConference PresentationsResearch