Catherine Sykora

Katharina Sykora (* 1955 in Bonn ) is a German art historian and professor of art history with a focus on painting , photography and film as well as gender studies . She also works as an exhibition curator .

Life

After studying art history , Romance languages and pedagogy at the University of Würzburg and Heidelberg Katharina Sykora was founded in 1983 with the work The phenomenon of the serial in the arts doctorate . From 1983 to 1985, Sykora then took a postgraduate course in film studies at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Sykora worked as a research assistant at the Feminist Archive and Documentation Center Frankfurt am Main (FAD) and at the Kunsthalle Mannheim . She also held teaching positions at the universities in Frankfurt am Main , Heidelberg , Marburg , Trier and Zurich . In 1994 Sykora was appointed to the professorship for Medieval and Modern Art History with a focus on gender research at the Ruhr University in Bochum . Since 2001 she has been professor for art history of the 19th and 20th centuries at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts . There they joined 2,013 spokeswoman for the DFG - Research Training Group "The photographic dispositive". In 2004 she was visiting professor at Indiana University Bloomington , USA.

2007 and 2008: Research funding Opus Magnum (Pro Geisteswissenschaft) of the Volkswagen Foundation for the publication project "The Death of Photography".
2008: Research Resident at Rockefeller Center Bellagio, Italy.
2011: Fellow at the International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna .

Monographs

The phenomenon of the serial in art. Aspects of an artistic method from Monet to American Pop Art . Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 1983. ISBN 3-88479-118-4
Femininity - Big City - Modern. The street pictures of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner . Museum Education Service, Berlin 1996. ISBN 3-930929-05-8
Eerie pairings. The fascination of androids and gender in photography. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 1999. ISBN 978-3-8837-5364-5 .
As You Desire Me. The portrait in the film . Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne 2003. ISBN 978-3-8837-5716-2 .
The deaths of photography . Volume 1: Photography of the dead and its social use. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2009. ISBN 978-3-7705-4915-3
Puppet games. Texts about the film . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-89472-866-3
The deaths of photography . Volume 2: Death, Theory and Photo Art. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2015. ISBN 978-3-7705-4916-0
Willy Maywald. Photographer and Cosmopolitan. Portraits, fashion, reports . Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld 2015. ISBN 978-3-7356-0072-1

As editor

(with Annette Dorgerloh , Ada Raev , Doris Noell-Rumpeltes): The “New Woman”. A challenge for the visual media of the Weimar Republic . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 1993.
(with Pia Müller-Tamm ): Puppets - bodies - automatons. Fantasies of modernity. Oktogon, Cologne 1999, ISBN 978-3-8961-1073-2 .
(with Birgit Buyer and Alexandra Karentzos): Body productions. On the artificiality of the sexes . Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2002. ISBN 978-3-89445-295-7 .
(with Martin Hellmold, Sabine Kampmann and Ralph Lindner): What is an artist? The subject of modern art . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2003. ISBN 978-3-7705-3791-4 .
A picture of a man. Ludwig II (Bavaria) . Construction and reception of a myth . Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2004. ISBN 978-3-5933-7479-6 .
(with Ludger Derenthal and Esther Ruelfs): Photographic passions. Jonas Verlag, Marburg 2006, ISBN 978-3-8944-5377-0 .
(with Anna Leibbrandt): Roland Barthes Revisited. 30 years of the bright chamber . Salon-Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-8977-0408-4 .
Vis à vis. Ulrike Ottinger. Portrait / collection . Self-published, Berlin 2012.

Dolls body vending machine. Fantasies of modernity . Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Düsseldorf 1999. (Co-curator)
Henri Matisse. Figure, color, space . Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf 2005. (Conceptual collaboration)
Vis à vis. Ulrike Ottinger. Portrait / collection . The hidden museum, Berlin 2012. (concept and co-curator)
Willy Maywald. Photographer and Cosmopolitan. Portraits, fashion, reports . Museum of Photography , Berlin. (Concept and co-curator)

personal data
SURNAME	Sykora, Catherine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German art historian and professor of art history with a focus on gender studies
DATE OF BIRTH	1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn