(Un)Mapping Infrastructures: Transnational Perspectives in Modern and Contemporary Art

Overview

• Duration: 2021–2025
• Type: International research network
• Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Gregor Langfeld, University of Amsterdam

Description

A network of 9 scholars from the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, and Switzerland critically examining art world infrastructures (museums, biennials, galleries, academies) from a transnational, non-Eurocentric perspective. The project identifies blind spots and neglected peripheries in the narratives of modern and contemporary art.

Core Members

• Prof. Dr. Burcu Dogramaci (LMU Munich)
• Dr. Rachel Esner (University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Bärbel Küster (Zürich)
• Prof. Dr. Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes (University of Amsterdam)
• Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg)
• Dr. Annabel Rückdeschel (Gießen)
• Prof. Dr. Marta Smolińska (Poznań)
• PD Dr. Ursula Ströbele (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte)

Output

• Series of workshops
• Planned two-volume publication
• Workshop (2024): "Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900" at KEMKI (Central European Research Institute for Art History), Budapest, June 26–28, 2024

Links

• University of Amsterdam: https://ahm.uva.nl/content/research-groups/unmapping-infrastructures/unmapping-infrastructures.html
• Leuphana Fox Portal: http://fox.leuphana.de/portal/en/projects/unmapping-infrastructures-transnational-perspectives-in-modern-and-contemporary-art(724290a7-d37d-4080-bb96-a49144d486ac).html