Elisabeth von Samsonow

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Elisabeth von Samsonow (born July 31, 1956 in Neubeuert am Inn, Upper Bavaria ) is a German-Austrian philosopher and artist. She is a full professor at the Institute for Art and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna .

life and work

After studying philosophy, Catholic theology and German at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, she worked there as a lecturer for Renaissance philosophy from 1987, and at the University of Vienna from 1991 . Her early research was devoted to the philosophy of the Renaissance , particularly its occult, Neoplatonic , non-Aristotelian forms. Several works and translations deal with the astronomy of Johannes Kepler and the memory philosophy and cosmology of Giordano Bruno . In 1996 she was appointed to the chair for sacred art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna , which was rededicated in 2000 to the subject of philosophical and historical anthropology of art. In 2012/2013 she teaches as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Design, Bauhaus University Weimar .

More recent works deal with the Elektra complex that Elisabeth von Samsonow analyzes in a text that is designed as a complement to the Anti-Oedipus by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari , and also with the artist Egon Schiele - Egon Schiele - Ich bin die viel ( I am many) (2010 ) and Egon Schiele - Sanctus Franciscus Hystericus (2012) - on the basis of their research in the archive of the Wien Museum .

She lives in Vienna and Hadres / Lower Austria, is a member of GEDOK , foreign correspondent for MULTITUDE. Until 2012, she was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of ITRAFO (Institute for Transcultural Research, Ulm University), a member of the Board of Trustees of the Emanuel and Sofie Fohn Scholarship Foundation, and an editorial member of Recherche - Zeitschrift for science, member of the editorial team of Tumult , publications for transport science and artistic director of the Neubeurer Woche, Schloss Neubänen . She presented the philosophy program Studio Elektra on Okto TV with Matija Serdar

She works u. a. on the following topics:

During her philosophy studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, she was at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, especially in the classes of permanent resident Eduardo Paolozzi , and Daniel Spoerri .1987 she received the Award of the Bavarian Ministry of Culture for her debut exhibition imagination magic when AK 68 artist community Wasserburg / Inn as a young artist. From 1985 to 1988 she was director of the Hieronimus small circus and the painting school in Tittmoning an der Salzach, where, as councilor for culture, environment and social affairs, she carries out several exhibition projects in public space (Ponlach. The sources of the city of Tittmoning, art border district Tittmoning / Ettenau).

In 1990 she moved to Vienna. Since 2007 she has been organizing public actions and performances , techno-media operations with sculptures (“speaking statues”) simulating girls' fantasies, processions ( Mary Magdalene's Re-Immigration Office Jerusalem ), animations by Elektra , Aquina , Ariadne and a statue by Gerburg Treusch-Dieter (with Gerda Schorsch as performer) and 2011 Hippo Hypno Schizo Marriage in the Sigmund Freud Museum Berggasse Vienna.

Since 2011 she has been working on the “Samsanow Transplant Orchestra”, an extensive sound installation made of sounding wooden sculptures (bony ears), absorbing the ideas of Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni and Alfred A. Tomatis for the purpose of deconstructing the “Vienna Fetish” orchestra , shown for the first time in the brut Vienna , December 2012.

Artistic work (selection)

  • The Secrets of Mary Magdalene , Jerusalem
  • The logic of lucky tears (animation of Elektra) , Innerschildgraben / Lower Austria
  • Xylosophy. The life of an absent thinker . In honor of Gerburg Treusch-Dieter
  • Ariadne thread girl , Mistelbach
  • Transplant Manifesto , Kunsthandel Gril, Vienna
  • SUPER TILIAE, L´HOMME PLANTE
  • Hypno Hippo Schizo Wedding , Sigmund Freud Museum , Vienna
  • Vulva transfer sacral-profane
  • Samsanov Transplant Parasonic Orchestra
  • A Young Woman , Jünger Gallery, Vienna

Scientific publications

  • Egon Schiele as a collector , Weitra: Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz 2016
  • Egon Schiele - Sanctus Franciscus Hystericus , Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2012
  • Egon Schiele - I am the many. With an afterword by Peter Sloterdijk , Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2010
  • Anti-electra. Totemism and Schizogamy , Zurich / Berlin: diaphanes, 2007, ISBN 3-935300-85-9
  • Flusser Lectures. What is inorganic sex really? Theory and brief history of hypnogenic subjects and objects , Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005
  • Biographies of the organless body (ed. With Éric Alliez), Vienna: Turia and Kant, 2003
  • Sex-Politik (Ed. With Doris Guth), Vienna: Turia and Kant, 2001
  • Chroma drama. Resistance of Color (Ed. With Éric Alliez), Vienna: Turia and Kant, 2001
  • Window in Paper: The Imaginary Collision of Architecture with Writing or the Renaissance Memory Revolution , Munich: Fink, 2001
  • Telenoia. Critique of Virtual Images (Ed. With Éric Alliez), Vienna: Turia and Kant, 1999
  • Hyperplastic. Art and concepts of perception in times of mental imagery (ed. With Éric Alliez), Vienna: Turia and Kant, 1998
  • The creation of the visible. The philosophical justification of scientific truth in Johannes Kepler , Munich: Fink 1987.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth von Samsonow on the website of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
  2. ↑ Ursula Mürling-Darrer: Elisabeth von Samsonow: Exhibition "A Young Woman" , Ö1 Leporello , September 12, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Samsonow, Elisabeth von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philosopher and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Neubeuer am Inn, Upper Bavaria