Änne Söll

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Änne Söll (* 1969 ) is a German art historian and professor of art history with a focus on art of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as cultural and gender studies , especially masculinity studies . She has been teaching at the Art History Institute of the Ruhr University Bochum since 2015 and in her research and teaching she deals, among other things, with new objectivity , new media, materiality theories and exhibition concepts in the visual arts.

Life

After studying at Middlesex University in London and Goethe University in Frankfurt , Söll started working on the body in 2003 . Videos and video installations by Pipilotti Rist is doing her doctorate at the University of Fine Arts Braunschweig under Katharina Sykora . She was the recipient of several grants and grants, including from the German Research Foundation and the Fulbright Program . Since 2011 she has been the editor of the journal for art and cultural studies, Critical Reports .

Her habilitation took place in 2014 at the University of Potsdam on the subject of The New Man? Male portraits by Otto Dix, Christian Schad and Anton Räderscheidt . Söll worked as a research assistant at the TU Dortmund and the University of Potsdam before she was appointed to the Ruhr University Bochum in 2015. She is the director of the Period Rooms project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and organized the international conferences, Cultures of Shine. Materials - Practices - Subjectivizations (2017), It's an impossible subject. Photography and Masculinity (2019), and Period rooms as hubs of cultural transfer (2019).

Publications (selection)

Monographs
Editorships
  • Queer Curating , (with Jonathan Katz), On Curating No. 37
  • The man in crisis? Visualizations of masculinity in the 20th and 21st centuries (with Gerald Schröder), Böhlau: Köln 2015
  • Coolness. On the aesthetics of a cultural behavioral strategy and attitude (with Annette Geiger and Gerald Schröder), Bielefeld: transcipt 2010
  • Friendship acts - acts of love. Salecina Contributions to Social and Cultural Criticism , Vol. 3 (with Gisela Engel), trafo: Berlin 2003, in it: “The Photographer as a Friend: Friendship and Intimacy in the Couple Photographs by Wolfgang Tillmans”, pp. 103–118.
  • Material in the process, strategies of aesthetic productivity (with Andreas Haus and Frank Hofmann), Reimer: Berlin 2000, in it: “50 kg not trained body and material in Pipilotti Rist's red and blue body letter”, pp. 189–201.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/haben/soell.html.de
  2. ↑ http://www.kunstgeschichte.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/forschung/index.html.de
  3. ↑ http://www.kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/files/170914a_rub_kgi_flyer_ansicht.pdf
  4. ↑ http://www.kgi.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/mam/files/fotografie_und_männlichkeit__tagung_10.10._änne_söll.pdf
  5. ↑ http://www.kunstgeschichte.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/forschung/index.html.de
  6. ↑ Queer Curating , (with Jonathan Katz), On Curating No. 37
personal data
SURNAME Söll, Änne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German art historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1969