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Kirsten Lee Bierbaum

Professorship:

Art History and Visual Studies, since 1 March 2024

 To the Professorship

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
picture of a woman in front of a white background © Kirsten Lee Bierbaum​/​studioline photography

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