Ulrike Gehring

Ulrike Gehring (Trier)

Ulrike Gehring (* 1969 ) is a German art historian and has been a professor at Trier University since 2009 .

Life

Gehring studied art history, history and German in Frankfurt am Main and Paris . She was a fellow at the Institut d'Histoire de l'Art et Archeologie at the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). This was followed by research stays in Washington and New York. In 2003 she did her doctorate at the Universities of Frankfurt am Main and Hamburg. From 2001 to 2003 she was a scientific trainee at the Center for Art and Media Technology , from 2003 a permanent curator and responsible for the exhibition “Obsessive Painting” (MNK | ZKM). At the same time, she was teaching at the universities of Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg. From 2003 to 2009 she was junior professor in art history at the University of Trier with a focus on modern art, contemporary art and new media. In 2006 she established a further, early modern research focus on the rationalization of space in Dutch art of the 17th century. She also pursued this in 2008 during a research fellowship at the German Historical Institute London .

Ulrike Gehring has been a professor of art history at Trier University since 2009. In 2014 she conceived the exhibition Mapping Spaces: Networks of Knowledge in Landscape Painting of the 17th Century for the ZKM Karlsruhe . The project was continued in several research collaborations in the field of art, nature and technology, which today examine the transfer of 'maritime knowledge' from 1600 to in the TRANSMARE research network. In addition, she is considered an expert on light art of the 20th century, with her recent research on Mark Rothko in particular receiving wide-ranging reception in the USA. In 2015 she initiated the curatorial platform »generator I medienkunstlabor.trier with Stephan Brakensiek, with annually changing exhibitions. Ulrike Gehring has been Vice President of the University of Trier since 2019.

Fonts (selection)

• Mapping Spaces. Networks of Knowledge in Landscape Painting of the 17th Century , ed. with Peter Weibel, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7774-2230-5 .
• The discovery of a distance. Nature and Science in 17th Century Dutch Painting (ed.), Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-7705-5689-2 .
• The world in a picture. World designs in art, literature and science since the early modern era (ed.), Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5051-7 .
• Images made of light. On James Turrell's concept of images in the context of American art after 1945 , (Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 2002) Heidelberg 2006, ISBN 978-3-936636-82-6 .
• On the green meadow. The University of Trier. Architecture, art, landscape , ed. with Ralf Dorn and Bernd Nicolai, Trier 2004, ISBN 978-3-933701-13-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ulrike Gehring in the catalog of the German National Library
• Profile on the homepage of the University of Trier