Curriculum

Anna Kipke is a doctoral researcher (Praedoc) in the Collaborative Research Center 1512 'Intervening Arts' at the Leuphana University of Lueneburg. She completed her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Art and Cultural Studies in Lueneburg with theses on the form and thinking of abstraction in Hilma af Klint, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari (BA) and on the politics of interiority in Emma Kunz (1892-1963) (MA).

Her research interests include history and theory of modern and abstract art, historiography of artistic practices, and trauma and healing as topics in 20th and 21st century art.

In her dissertation project 'Emma Kunz. Therapeutic Lines', she examines therapeutic practices as artistic methods of intervention between 1930-1960. The work focuses on the historical reconstruction of the practice of drawing and healing by the Swiss artist Emma Kunz (1892-1963) based on testimonies of former patients. In the constellation with artistic positions by Eva Aeppli (1925-2015) and Agnes Denes (*1931), she analyzes artistic forms of the personal (autobiography / testimony) in order to grasp therapeutic practices as material in art in individual and social moments of crisis.

Research interests

– History and Theory of Modern Art and Abstraction 
– Material Culture of Spiritual Practices
– Historiography of Artistic Practices
– Trauma and Healing in the Arts