Kirsten Lee Bierbaum
Professorship:
Art History and Visual Studies, since 1 March 2024
Department:
Arts and Sports Sciences
Studies and doctorate:
- 2014: Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Bonn
- 2007-2009: two-year doctoral scholarship at the Bibliotheca Herztiana, Max Planck Institute for Art History Rome
- 1996-2002: Studies in art history, German studies, and theater, film and television studies at the University of Cologne and the Università di Genova

Stages:
- 2023-2024: Professorship for “Early Modern Art History with a Focus on Italy” at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna
- 2021-2023: Administrative professorship for “Art of the Middle Ages” at the Institute of Art History at the University of Osnabrück
- 2011-2021: Research assistant at the Institute of Art History at the University of Cologne
Focus in research:
- Italian art history (16th-17th century), in particular Roman Renaissance and Baroque
- Images for communities (13th-17th centuries), significance of buildings and artifacts for the emergence and safeguarding of community identity
- Urban piety and identity, medieval town hall buildings and their furnishings, rituals in urban topography
- Practice theory, liturgy and ritual research, performativity
- Materiality, “agency of things”
- Visual rhetoric and affect control, viewer addressing, reception aesthetics