Prof. Dr. Susanne Leeb
Vita
Susanne Leeb studied art history, philosophy and modern German literature at the University of Cologne. After her studies she held various project assistantships at the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum in Cologne and was editor of the journal Texte zur Kunst from 1999-2001. She was awarded a doctorate within the framework of the graduate college "Representation-Rhetoric-Knowledge" at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder with a thesis on "The Art of Others. World Art and the Anthropological Configuration of Modernity." Since 2007, she has worked as a research associate at the SFB "Aesthetic Experience in the Sign of the Dissolution of Artistic Boundaries" at Freie Universität and, after a substitute professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, was appointed to the Laurenz Assistant Professorship at the Art History Department of the University of Basel. Since 2014 she has been Professor of Contemporary Art at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
There, in addition to her professorship, she is the director of the Leuphana Institute of Advanced Studies in Culture and Society together with Erich Hörl. Together with Ulf Wuggenig, she directs the Art Space (Kunstraum) at Leuphana University Lüneburg.
In the BA she teaches especially in the specialization "Art and Visual Culture", in the MA in "Critique of the Present: Arts - Theory - History" as well as in the complementary studies. Her seminars mainly deal with questions of transcultural art history, e.g. "Transcultural Art History and Cosmpolitical Modernity", "Property and Posession in Art and Cultural Theory", "Subject Critique in 20th and 21st Century Art", "Documenta 15 - Artist Collectives", "Art and Technology(Critique)", "Tribunals in Contemporary Art" or "Black Aesthetics from the Harlem Renaissance to #blacklivesmatter".
Projects
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Wendländisches Leinen und Koloniales Erbe. Spurensuche einer transkulturellen Verflechtung im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Beate Söntgen (Partner) , Susanne Leeb (Partner) , Sarah Kreiseler (Project manager, academic) , Ruth Stamm (Project staff)
→Project: Research
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Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Society
Susanne Leeb (Project manager, academic)
→Project: Research
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Jameson 2.0. Cognitive Mapping in Contemporary Art
Susanne Leeb (Project manager, academic) , Jenny Nachtigall (Project staff)
→Project: Research
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Promovieren im Museum
Beate Söntgen (Project manager, academic) , Susanne Leeb (Project manager, academic) , Ira Klinkenbusch (Project staff)
→Project: Research
Publications
Books and anthologies
- Museums, Transculturality and the Nation-State: Case Studies from a Global Context
Susanne Leeb (Editor) , Nina Samuel (Editor) , 2022 Bielefeld , 248 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Collected editions and anthologies › Research
Journal contributions
- "Der Tyrann braucht zerbrochene Seelen": Susanne Leeb über Rajkamal Kahlon
Susanne Leeb (Author) , 01.09.2021 , in: Lerchenfeld, 58 , p. 25-28 , 4 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
- Property/Eigentum. Vorwort
Susanne Leeb (Author) , Nadja Abt (Author) , Kerstin Stakemeier (Author) , Isabelle Graw (Author) , 01.03.2020 , in: Texte zur Kunst, 30, 117 , p. 6-7 , 2 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Other (editorial matter etc.) › Research
- Idiome: Die kleinen ks der Kunst
Susanne Leeb (Author) , 01.03.2017 , in: Texte zur Kunst, 108 , p. 33-56 , 24 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
- Achtundsechzig antikolonial: Szenen militanter Kunst- und Filmproduktion und Implikationen für eine (Kunst)Geschichtsschreibung
Susanne Leeb (Author) , 05.03.2022 Bielefeld , p. 27-61 , 35 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Chapter › Research › peer-review
Activities
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Undoing Ethnographic and Archaological Objects
Susanne Leeb (Speaker)
→Activity: Guest lectures › Research
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Das Unding. Colonial Gothic in Contemporary Art
Susanne Leeb (Oral presentation)
Activity: Guest lectures › Research
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Colonial Archaeology
Susanne Leeb (Speaker)
Activity: Guest lectures › Education
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Négritude: Hausenstein and Senghor
Susanne Leeb (Speaker)
Activity: Conference Presentations › Research
Courses
Gleichzeitig berücksichtigt eine solche transkulturelle Kunstgeschichte auch die Unterschiede, Ungleichheiten, und Gewaltförmigkeiten. Ausgehend von der Ausstellung erarbeiten wir ein Verständnis transkultureller Kunstgeschcihte ausgehend von der Migration nach Deutschland in den 1960er bis 1980er Jahren inclusive Ausblicke in die Gegenwart. Gleichzeitig lesen wir grundlegende Texte für eine transkulturelle Kunstgeschichte und binden diese an die Ausstellung zurück.