Lena Horn
Research Associate
Theory | Art History
Address: | Güntzstr. 34 |
Room Nr. 206 | |
Phone: | |
Email: |
Vita
| Since 04/2024 | Research employee in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Theory at HfBK Dresden |
| 09/2023- 03/2024 | University assistant in the Department of Visual Culture at the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt |
| 08/2022- 08/2023/ | Research employee in the Department of Medieval and Modern Art History at the Institute for Art History, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf |
| 03/2022- 04/2022 | Intern at the library of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz - Max Planck Institute |
| 03/2019- 06/2019 | Press Officer Assistant in the studio of the artist Danica Dakić in the course of the 58th International La Biennale di Venezia 2019 |
| 06/2017- 07/2022 | Student assistant for Andrea von Hülsen-Esch, Professor for Medieval and Modern Art History, and Valeska von Rosen, Professor for Modern to Early Modern Art History, Institute for Art History, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf |
| 10/2018- 09/2019 | Student assistant for Simone Dietz, Professor for Cultural and Social Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf |
| 12/2018- 05/2022 | Master in Art History at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Degree: Master of Arts |
| 10/2013- 11/2018 | Bachelor in Philosophy and Art History at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf Degree: Bachelor of Arts |
Current Research Project
Dissertation project: Aesthetization of Violence - Images of Violence in Visual Art and Visual Culture
The dissertation project examines images of violence in fine art and visual culture with regard to strategies of aestheticization. Raptus groups and their evident aestheticization of violence were crucial for the formation of this idea. However, looking at more recent examples who stress the aspect of protest and demonstrate counter-designs to an aestheticization is the focus of the project.
The form of violence in focus here is sexual violence against women. In this regard, the project also aims to contribute to feminist cultural studies and explores questions about modes of representation of sexual violence. This becomes particularly evident in regard to a central object of the dissertation, the documentary Luchadoras, which shows resistant women in a society of extreme patriarchal oppression who elevate violence within wrestling to a form of protest and transform it to self-empowerment.
The aim of the project is therefore to reveal strategies of aestheticization and at the same time to pose the question of a non-aestheticizing or resistant approach to the topic of violence and to explore how violence can be presented as violence.
Publications
Von verlorenen und verbotenen Bildern? Der Körper als Objekt am Beispiel Angelo Solimans, in: Welt-Bilder. Kunst- und Wunderkammern, hg. v. Sandra Abend und Hans Körner, München 2023.
Into Space, in: Ausst.-Kat. Charles Wilp. Kunst im Rausch der Werbung, hg. v. Sandra Abend, München 2021, S. 149–155.
Modernität und Sachlichkeit. Jupp Rübsams Düsseldorfer Denkmäler, in: annoRAK Mitteilungen aus dem Rheinischen Archiv für Künstlernachlässe, Heft 7 (2019), S. 44–53, online: www.rak-bonn.de/Publikationen/annoRAK7.pdf, vom 04.09.2023.
Katalogbeiträge zu Jean Cocteau, Marie-Alain Couturier und Le Corbusier, in: "L'art sacré". Die Kunstzeitschrift der französischen Dominikaner und das Engagement für eine moderne christliche Kunst, hg. v. Hans Körner und Jürgen Wiener, Essen 2019, S. 256–257, 258–259, 280–281.
Talks
Zwischen Machismo und Selbstbehauptung. Ästhetische und erzählerische Brüche im Dokumentarfilm Luchadoras.
During the conference Zerstresst! Spannungen zwischen Ästhetischem und Politischem, 07.-09.12.2023 at Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf.
Von verlorenen und verbotenen Bildern? Der Körper als Objekt am Beispiel Angelo Solimans.
During the conference Welt-Bilder. Kunst- und Wunderkammern, 13.-14.05.2022 Kunstraum Hilden.
Le Corbusier – Der profane Architekt im sakralen Kontext.
During the conference L'art sacré. Konzepte der Moderne in der Sakralkunst Frankreichs, der Schweiz und Deutschlands, 11.-12.11.2016 in Haus der UniversitätDüsseldorf.
Teaching
- Ongoing: Studio Talks (since 2024)
- Depictions of violence between Trivialization and Resistance in Visual Art and Film (seminar, 2024)
- Aesthetization of Violence - Images of Violence between Trauma and Trivialization (seminar, 2023)
- Printmaking Techniques: Theory and Practice (exercise, 2023)
- Methods and Theory of Form from Late Antiquity to Medieval Art (seminar, 2022/23)
- Methodical Exercise for Scientific Working (in Preparation for the Bachelor Thesis) (2022/23)
- Stilfragen – Portrait (seminar, 2022) in cooperation with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Körner
- On the Periphery of Art - The Prinzhorn Collection at Heidelberg University Hospital (excursion, 2021) in cooperation with Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hans Körner
Additional Information
Scholarships
| 08/2021 | Travel grant from the Heinrich-Heine-University for research stays in Rouen and at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich in the course of the master thesis |
| 10/2020 – 03/2021 | Deutschlandstipendium for high-performing students |
Volunteering
| 06/2021–08/2023 | Deputy Chairwoman and jury member of Kreises der Freunde of the Institute of Art History at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| 01/2021 – 04/2022 | Iniciation of a student reading group |
| 04/2018 – 10/2018 | KRASS e.V. – Cultural education for children and teenagers |
Summer Schools and Workshops
| 07/2023 | The Art of the Parler Era – Summer School with Excursion (Nuremberg, Heilsbronn, Augsburg) Cooperation of Heinrich-Heine-University, University of Warsaw and University of Vienna |
| 12/2021 | Workshop Diversity the Basics By Section Diversity of Heinrich-Heine-University |
| 08-09/2021 | The Sculpture of the Parler Era – Summer School with Excursion Cooperation of Heinrich-Heine-University, Université de Strasbourg and Tel Aviv University |
| 10/2017 | Internationaler Workshop in Amsterdam: Solving Conflict with Storytelling? Share to connect – How to use Storytelling in Youth work By Storytelling Centre Amsterdam |
| 04-07/2017 | Refugees welcome – a Museum Project for and with Refugees Heinrich-Heine-University and Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf |
Office Hours
By arrangement - please contact me via email: horn@hfbk-dresden.de
Güntzstraße 34, room 206, or on Zoom
