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Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Sabeth Buchmann

Art Theory and Cultural Studies
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Lectures

Professor, 2004–present

Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Specialization in Modern and Post-Modern Art History, with particular interests in the history of (post-)conceptual art both in Europe, North and South America and in other international aspects of postwar art, especially with focus on human-machine and cybernetic discourses and their impact on early postwar art practices.  Researches on procedures of rehearsal and learning exercize in the visual arts as well as on the history and practice of art, film and cultural criticism.

Guest professor, February–June 2017

Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich

Guest lecturer, January–March 2016

UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles (USA)

Dean, 2005–2011

Institute of Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Academy of Arts, Hamburg, 2002–2004

Assistant professor, 1998–2004

Different locations

  • at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee/ Berlin, University of Arts, Berlin, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, and the Jan-van-Eyck-Academy, Maastricht

Guest lecturer and board member, 2018–present

Escola das Artes at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

Co-curator, August–December 2016

Exhibition and film program “Putting Rehearsals to the Test”

  • at the Leonhard and Bina Ellen Gallery (Concordia University), the SBC Gallery and VOX – Centre de l’image contemporaine in Montréal (in collaboration with Ilse Lafer and Constanze Ruhm)

Research Member

DFG-Research Network “Anders Wissen”, 2017–2020

DFG-Research Network “Kunst und Arbeit”, 2010–2013

Art Critics Award, Austria, 2008

Co-editor, since 2006

PolYPen . a book series on art criticism, aesthetics, and political theory (b_books, Berlin), in collaboration with Helmut Draxler, Clemens Krümmel und Susanne Leeb

University prize, 2004

Free University of Berlin

  • Award for the best PhD of a female junior scientist at the faculty of Historical and Cultural Science

Editorships/Memberships

2nd Managing Director, 2019–present

Austrian Ludwig-Stiftung

Membership, 2018–present

Research Board of the Escola das Artes at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto

Board member, 2013–2019

Austrian Ludwig-Stiftung

Advisory Board, 2009–2012

Book series Exhibition Histories, Afterall Books, Goldsmith University London

Advisory Board, 1997–2000

Institute of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Arts, Berlin

Advisory Board, 1998-present

“Texte zur Kunst”, Berlin

Evaluations for various foundations, 1998-present

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Schweizer Nationalfonds, Evangelische Studienstiftung, and Volkswagenstiftung

Publications

PhD Supervision

Dissertations

  • Seeing the void. Forms of visual representationof so-called “Arisierungen” in contemporary art


    Candidate: Mag. phil. Veronika Rudorfer

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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    abstract: “To see the void means to register something in perception that belongs to that perception but is absent in it; it means to see the absence of what is missing as a quality of presence.” — Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking, Cologne 1972, p. 92. The goal of my dissertation is to analyze forms and methods of visual representations by contemporary artists of so-called “Arisierungen” (“Aryanization”), a term coined by the Nazis, which means the forced transfer of property from the Jewish population in Germany, Austria and German-occupied Europe to new Nazi owners. How can this organized robbery, the destruction of contexts, relationships and processes of restitution be visualized by contemporary artists? How can history and historicity – at the same time agent and object depicted – be visualized by artists? Which forms of medialization can be found for the absence of these stolen objects and the destructed relationships between them and their lawful owners? In which ways are these objects witnesses of trauma?These questions are relevant today, since witnesses of the holocaust are gradually disappearing. Due to this fact, the communicative memory is transformed into a cultural memory. The analysis of works of art dealing with so-called “Arisierungen” makes it necessary to analyze the discourses of legitimate forms of visual representation of Nazi crimes as well as art after Auschwitz. The interdisciplinary dissertation project analyzes the central discourses such as memory, history/historicity and void/absence. Based on these theoretical concepts, case studies of the artistic work of Maria Eichhorn and Arno Gisinger et al. will follow–focusing methodically on the social histories of art. The dissertation will also bring into focusthe relationship between the institution (e.g. the museum) and these artists. Do the artists work on behalf of the institutionto research the itsown history, or are their projects independently executed? How can these works be contextualized in terms of (post) conceptual,institutional critique and documentarism?

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  • Zur Aktualität des Allegorischen. Beobachtungen in der zeitgenössischen Kunst


    Candidate: Mag. phil. Maximilian Rudolf Von Geymüller M.A.

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Echoes of Socialism - Deconstructing the Historiography of Art and Museum Practice in Hungary after 1989. The case of Gyula Hincz.


    Candidate: Barbara Dudás

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Breaking The Stereotype. Klischeehafte Bilder, stereotype Darstellungen in den Medien: Visualisierung und Repräsentation von Frauen im türkischen Fernsehen


    Candidate: Fatma Uysal MA

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Conceptualism in Art-Jewelery: a Parallel to Conceptual Art


    Candidate: Cristina-Izabella Petrut

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Kritische Kunstpraktiken und Institutionen im kognitiven Kapitalismus


    Candidate: Mag. phil. Andrei-Mihai Siclodi

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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  • Another Modern Subject


    Candidate: Laura Margaret Preston

    study_program: Dr.-Studium der Philosophie; Kunst u. kulturwiss. Studien (Stzw)

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