Ursula Frohne

Ursula Anna Frohne (born September 4, 1958 in Stadtlohn ) is an art historian and university lecturer.

Life

Frohne studied art history, Dutch literature and communication sciences at the Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Free University of Berlin . In 1993 she received her doctorate in art history from the Free University of Berlin. 1995–2002 she was chief curator at the Museum of New Art and lecturer at the State University of Design in Karlsruhe . In 2002 she was appointed professor for History of Art at the International University Bremen (today Jacobs University Bremen), 2006–2015 she was professor for art history with a focus on art of the 20th and 21st centuries at the University of Cologne .

Since October 2015 Frohne has been Professor of Art History with a focus on "Modernism" at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster.

Frohne is one of the four editors of the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte .

Ursula Frohne, painter and millionaires - success as a production. Artists in New York since the 19th century, Dresden: Verlag der Kunst 2000.

Ursula Frohne, Marianne Wagner (eds.), Public Matters. Debates and documents from the Skulptur Projekte archive | Public Matters. Debates and Documents from the Sculpture Projects Archives, Cologne: Buchhandlung Walther König (to be published in November 2019).

Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Ursula Frohne, Jee-Hae Kim et al. (Ed.), Radio as Art. Concepts, Spaces, Practices, Bielefeld: transcript (to be published in August 2019).

Ursula Frohne, Lilian Haberer, Annette Urban (eds.), Display | Dispositiv Aesthetic Orders, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2019.

Barbara Engelbach and Ursula Frohne (eds.), Sigmar Polke. Film und Kunst / Film and Art, Cologne: Bookstore Walther König 2016.

Ursula Frohne and Lilian Haberer (eds.), Cinematographic Spaces. Installation aesthetics in film and art, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2012.

"Radio as a 'Minor' Art Practice" in: Anne Thurmann-Jajes, Ursula Frohne, Jee-Hae Kim et al. (Ed.), Radio as Art. Concepts, Spaces, Practices, Bielefeld: transcript 2019, pp. 127–158.
"Situational displays of a cinema 'in the extended field'", in: Ursula Frohne, Lilian Haberer, Annette Urban (eds.), Display | Dispositiv Aesthetic Orders, Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2018, pp. 101–138.
“Plastic potential of the photographic” | "The Sculptural Potentiality of The Photographic", in: FOTOFINISH, anniversary exhibition of the DZ Bank Art Collection, Frankfurt am Main, 2018, pp. 221–293 | Pp. 295-310.
"The USA in Vietnam and the Critique of Art" (together with Christian Katti), in: Andreas Beitin and Eckhart Gillen (eds.), Flashes of the Future, The Art of the 1968 or the Power of the Powerless, Bonn: Federal Agency for Political Affairs Education, 2018, pp. 138–168.