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Curriculum
Academic
- Currently: PhD in Art History with the thesis Language and Performance in the Work of Hollis Frampton at the Art History Institute of Freie Universität Berlin, supervisor Prof. Dr. Eric de Bruyn (previous supervisors: Prof. Dr. Gregor Stemmrich, Prof'in Dr. Gertrud Koch).
- April 2019 - March 2022: Research assistant at the chair of Prof'in Dr. Susanne Leeb (Contemporary Art), IPK of the Leuphana University Lüneburg
- 2015 - 2018: Research assistant at the chair of Prof'in Dr. Gregor Stemmrich (Modern and Contemporary Art History), Institute of Art History, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2013: Non-Degree PhD student at the Department of Art History, GSAS of Columbia University, New York
- 2004 - 2011: Master's degree in Art History and Philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin
Curatorial (selection)
- Curator of the film and performance program Ian White - Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object (March 15 - 17, 2019), Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V., Berlin.
- Curator of the exhibition Morgan O'Hara: Live Transmissions (April 26 - May 30, 2018), Chimera-Project-Gallery, Budapest
- Curator of the exhibition Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr, 1913-1980, abest (April 13-May 13, 2018), together with Matthias Gründig, at UG im Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
- Initiator, curator and organizer of the self-financed temporary space for experiment and practice kma71, Karl-Marx-Allee 71, Berlin, September 2017 - July 2018.
- Curatorial Research Assistant in the curatorial team of Yasmil Raymond, Dia Art Foundation, New York, September 2014 - January 2015.
- Curatorial Assistant to Susanne Pfeffer for the exhibition and catalog You Killed Me First. The Cinema of Transgression (Feb. 19-Apr. 08, 2012), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
- Curatorial Assistant to Ian White for the film and performance program It's Not The Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But The Situation In Which He Lives: kunst, kino, kontext now, Arsenal - Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. (2008).
Scholarships
- October 2012 - March 2015: PhD scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the International Research Training Group InterArt, Freie Universität Berlin.
- August 2013 - February 2014: Scholarship of the Trilateral Exchange Program for Doctoral Students among Columbia University (New York), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and FU Berlin, visiting scholar at the Art History Department of the GSAS of Columbia University, New York, for the fall semester of 2013.
- April - August 2009: DAAD research grant for the completion of the M.A. thesis for a research trip to New York (MoMA Museum Archives, Anthology Film Archives), Cambridge, Mass. (Harvard Film Archive) and Rochester, NY (George Eastman House).
Network
Member of the Association of German Art Historians e.V.
CAA (College Art Association of America), 2019/20
Research Interests
- History, theory, and criticism of 20th and 21st century art: photography, film, video, and performance in Europe and North America
- Hollis Frampton
- Theory and practice of the curatorial
- Psychoanalysis, feminism and transculturality in art theory and artistic practice
Teaching
Leuphana University Lüneburg
WiSe 2021/22:
Seminar (BA), The Documentary as Representational Critique: Photography, Film and Video, 2 SWS.
Seminar (BA), Film and Art: How Cinema Came to the Museum, 2 SWS.
SoSe 2021 (online semester):
Seminar (BA), Photography and Feminism: the 1970s and 80s in North America (with virtual field trip), 3 SWS; guests in the seminar via Zoom: Joana Francener (Workshop: Sex positivity and gender-based pornography) and Dorchen Leidholdt, Director of the Sanctuary for Families Center for Battered Women's Legal Services, New York (Q&A: Women against Pornography (WAP) / Gender-based violence).
Seminar (BA), Art and Appropriation: The 1960s and 70s in Europe and North America, 1 SWS.
WiSe 2020/21 (online semester):
Seminar (BA), Video Art in Transcultural and Feminist Perspectives (with virtual field trip on Canon and Video Art), 3 SWS; guest in seminar with own lecture (Video since the 1990s - Image Mobility, The Installation, Networks) via Zoom: Ying Sze Pek (Princeton University).
Seminar (BA), Visuality and Pictorial Representation - Seminal Texts, 1 SWS.
SoSe 2020 (online semester):
Seminar (BA), Curating Video Art (with virtual field trip), 3 SWS; guest with own lecture or Q&A in the seminar via Zoom: Antonina Krezdorn (curator at Museum Folkwang, Essen) and Köken Ergun (video artist, Istanbul / Berlin); A website will be created in the course of the seminar (tba: July 2021).
Seminar (BA), Likeness, 2 SWS.
WiSe 2019/20:
Seminar (BA), Aspects of Film Analysis, 3 SWS.
SoSe 2019:
Seminar (BA), Introduction to Art History, 2 SWS (accompanying the lecture Introduction to Art History by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kemp).
Seminar (BA), On the Analysis of Film as Medium, Art, Performance - An Introduction, 2 SWS
Free University of Berlin
WiSe 2017/18:
Proseminar for advanced Bachelor students, Photography as/with concept: Hollis Frampton's ADSVMVS ABSVMVS, In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913-1980, abest (1982), 2 SWS; in collaboration with the seminar The Photograph as Mummy at the Department of Photography at Folkwang University, Essen, led by Matthias Gründig; the seminar took place in preparation for the exhibition of the same name, curated by Matthias Gründig and Anne Breimaier for UG im Folkwang, Museum Folkwang, Essen (13.4.-13.5. 2018). Exhibition views at: http://kma71berlin.de/en/hollis-frampton/ (accessed 3/15/2021).
SoSe 2017:
Proseminar, Marcel Duchamp and Minimal Art (with two-day field trip to the Duchamp Research Center, Schwerin, funded by a travel grant from the Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft, FU Berlin), 2 SWS.
WiSe 2016/17:
Proseminar, Seminal texts: Film and Art, 2 SWS.
SoSe 2016:
Proseminar, Yvonne Rainer: Performance and Film (workshop on Theories of Performativity with Manuel Scheidegger, FU Berlin), 2 SWS.
Proseminar, Carl Andre and Curatorial Practice (in cooperation with Lisa Marei Schmidt at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart Berlin), 2 SWS.
WiSe 2015/16:
Proseminar, Carl Andre: Sculpture, Poem, 2 SWS.
SoSe 2015:
Proseminar, Reading film and performing text - On the use of 'language' in the work of Hollis Frampton (two-day workshop on the topic of Intertextual Materials with Timothy Anderson, NYU, New York), 2 SWS.
Folkwang University of the Arts
SoSe 2017:
Seminar (BA), Photography and Minimal Art (with one-day field trip to the Museum Folkwang and the art collections of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum), 2 SWS.
Keywords
- Science of art
- Philosophy
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 5 Gender Equality
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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Projects
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Language and Performance in the Work of Hollis Frampton
Breimaier, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.12 → …
Project: Dissertation project
Research output
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Hollis Frampton: ADSVMVS ABSVMVS : In memory of Hollis William Frampton, Sr., 1913–1980 : abest
Breimaier, A. (Editor) & Gründig, M. (Editor), 2021, Essen: Folkwang Universität der Künste. 196 p. (Folkwang Edition; vol. 007)Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Transfer
Open Access -
Hollis Frampton: Photographs
Breimaier, A., 26.11.2020, 12 p. London : The Burlington Magazine Publication Ltd.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Transfer
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Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object
Breimaier, A. (Editor), 03.2019, Berlin: Edition Living Archive. 63 p.Research output: Books and anthologies › Exhibition catalogues › Transfer
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Ästhetik der Skalierung
Breimaier, A., 11.10.2017, 5 p. Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Research output: other publications › Articles in scientific forums or blogs › Research
Open Access -
Rysowanie nicią. Międzynarodowe konteksty teatru plastycznego”
Breimaier, A., 2016, Krzysztof Jung. Przemiana (Ausst.Kat. Galleri SalonAkademii, : Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, 22.10.-30.11.2016) Warschau 2016. Warschau: Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, p. 135-149 15 p.Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Contributions to collected editions/anthologies › Transfer
Activities
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Liquidity, Flows, Circulation: The Cultural Logic of Environmentalization 2020
Breimaier, A. (Speaker)
10.12.2020Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › External workshops, courses, seminars › Research
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"How soon will anyone dare photograph peppers, after Weston?" – Hollis Frampton’s ADSVMVS ABSVMVS (1982) at Museum Folkwang (2018)
Breimaier, A. (Panel participant)
2020Activity: Talk or presentation › Conference Presentations › Research
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Kunstgeschichte und kuratorische Arbeit – Zu Ian White: Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object im Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst, Berlin (15 – 17. März 2019)
Breimaier, A. (Oral presentation)
04.07.2019Activity: Talk or presentation › Guest lectures › Education
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Ian White – Cinema as a Live Art / Becoming Object - 2019
Breimaier, A. (Organiser)
15.03.2019 → 17.03.2019Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer
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Morgan O’Hara: Live Transmissions - 2018
Breimaier, A. (Organiser)
26.04.2018 → 30.05.2018Activity: Participating in or organising an academic or articstic event › artistic events › Transfer