Obituary: Marina Vishmidt
The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) and the Institut für Philosophie und Kunstwissenschaft (IPK) der Leuphana Universität mourn Marina Vishmid (1976–2024).
2024-05-02 The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) and the Institute of Philosophy and Art History (IPK) of the Leuphana Universität mourn Marina Vishmid (1976–2024).
The Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) and the Institute of Philosophy and Art History (IPK) of the Leuphana University mourn the loss of Marina Vishmid (1976-2024).
Over the last years the author, critic and publisher was a recurring guest at the Institute for Philosophy and Art History of the Leuphana as well at the Kunstraum. For this year’s autumn, she was invited to be the artist fellow at the newly founded Leuphana Institute for Advanced Studies (LIAS) in Lüneburg.
In Marina Vishmidt, the art sciences lose an outstanding researcher, who investigated the relations of art, value and work with a focus on those speculative relations which combine the processes of financialization with those of subjectification. Together with Kerstin Stakemeier she also researched questions of gender, work and a materialistic critique of the contemporary art business, with consideration of ecological questions und differing ways of life.
Vishmidt war Mitglied des Kollektivs „Marxism in Culture“ und wirkte im Vorstand an der Reihe „New Perspectives on the Critical Theory of Society“ (Bloomsbury) mit.
Vishmidt was a member of the collective “Marxism in Culture” und participated in the board of the series “New Perspectives on the Critical Theory of Society” (Bloomsbury).
Her Publication include “Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital” (2018), “Reproducing Autonomy: Work, Money, Crisis and Contemporary Art” (2016) (with Kerstin Stakemeier) as well as the article “Speculation” in the series “Documents of Contemporary Art” of the Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press (2018). Additionally, she regularly wrote magazines such as “Mute”, “Ephemera”, “Afterall”, “Texte zur Kunst”, “Radical Philosophy”, “Kaleidoscope”, “Open!”, and “South Atlantic Quarterly”.
Vishmidt studied Liberal Arts at the Sarah Lawrence College in New York as well as Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research at the Middlesex University, London. She got her PhD at the Queen Mary University of London in “Critical Management and Political Economy”. She held the Rudolph Arnheim Visiting Professorship in Art History at the Humboldt University (2022) as well as the Visiting Professorship in Critical and Cultural Theory of the Södertörn University, Stockholm (2020). Additionally, she taught and researched at the Berlin University of Arts, at the Central Saint Martins and the Goldsmith College in London. Last year, she got the call for the professorship for Art Theory at the Angewandte in Vienna.