Anna Kipke

Anna Kipke
21335 Lüneburg, Universitätsallee 1, C40.410
anna.kipke@leuphana.de
Wiss. Mitarbeiter*in, Professorship of Art History

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Vita

Anna Kipke is a doctoral researcher (Praedoc) in the Collaborative Research Center 1512 'Intervening Arts' at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Art and Cultural Studies in Lueneburg with theses on the form and thinking of abstraction in Hilma af Klint, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (BA) and on the politics of interiority in Emma Kunz (1892-1963) (MA).

Her research interests include history and theory of modern and abstract art, historiography of artistic practices, and trauma and healing as topics in 20th and 21st century art.

In her dissertation project 'Emma Kunz. Therapeutic Lines', she examines therapeutic practices as artistic methods of intervention between 1930-1960. The work focuses on the historical reconstruction of the practice of drawing and healing by the Swiss artist Emma Kunz (1892-1963) based on testimonies of former patients. In the constellation with artistic positions by Eva Aeppli (1925-2015) and Agnes Denes (*1931), she analyzes artistic forms of the personal (autobiography / testimony) in order to grasp therapeutic practices as material in art in individual and social moments of crisis.

Research Interests

– History and Theory of Modern Art and Abstraction 
– Material Culture of Spiritual Practices
– Historiography of Artistic Practices
– Trauma and Healing in the Arts 

Projects

Publications

Books and anthologies

  1. Drafts in Action: Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention
    Anna Lena Kipke (Editor) , Mimmi Woisnitza (Editor) , Iryna Kovalenko (Editor) , Laura Rogalski (Editor) , Simon Teune (Editor) , 2025 1 ed. Zurich , 268 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

  2. Ins Bild kommen: Spielräume der Kunstkritik
    Anna Lena Kipke (Editor) , Mimmi Woisnitza (Editor) , Anita Hosseini (Editor) , Holger Kuhn (Editor) , 2023 Paderborn , 234 p.

    Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research

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Journal contributions

  1. Farbschluchten: Anna Kipke über Katharina Grosse in den Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , 01.12.2025 , in: Texte zur Kunst, 35, 140 , p. 199–202 , 4 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Critical reviews › Transfer

  2. Haunted Memories. Landscapes of the Mind: Parallele Bildverfahren im Werk von Erna Rosenstein und Aubrey Williams
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , 01.09.2023 , in: Kunstforum international, 291 , p. 78-85 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer

  3. Meme Therapy: Auf der Suche nach Heilung in Geisterzeichnungen, Therapie-Notizbüchern und Trauma-Tagebüchern
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , 01.01.2022 , in: Kunstforum international, 279 , p. 104-111 , 8 p.

    Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Transfer

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Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

  1. On Puppets, Dolls, and Harlequins: Textile Constellations between Emma Kunz and Eva Aeppli
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , 01.01.2025 1 ed. Zurich , p. 235–246 , 12 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  2. Manifestation, Collectiveness, Documentation: Thinking About Intervening Arts in Terms of Concept and Practice
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , Mimmi Woisnitza (Author) , 01.01.2025 1 ed. Zurich , p. 9–33 , 25 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

  3. Ins Bild kommen: Spielräume der Kunstkritik
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , Mimmi Woisnitza (Author) , Anita Hosseini (Author) , Holger Kuhn (Author) , 01.01.2023 Paderborn , p. xv-xxi , 7 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Other › Research

  4. Culture and Capital: Claire Bishop: Place in Plunderland: Claire Bishop on the Shed
    Anna Lena Kipke (Author) , 01.01.2022 1. Auflage ed. Berlin , p. 428-437 , 10 p.

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Research

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Activities

Courses