2026S

..Programme The lectures will be delivered in the lecture hall C1 on the University Campus at Universität Wien. They take place on Wednesdays from 16:45 to 18:15 CET. 11.03.2026 Prof. Dr. Ursula Ströbele (Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig): “I like to work with pliable materials...“. Female Sculptors in Studio Photographs 18.03.2026 PD Dr. Henrike Haug (Universität Köln): „Ausbeute“ und „Bodenschatz“. Reflections on the Relation between Art, Nature, and Metals in Early Modern Mining Regions 15.04.2026 MMag.a. Heike Eipeldauer (Mumok Wien): 'I am busy with materials': Material Precarity and Exuberance in the Work of Medardo Rosso 22.04.2026 Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): Special Offer. On the Flexibility of Clay in the Florentine Quattrocento 29.04.2026 Prof. Dr. Karin Leonhard (Universität Konstanz): Smoke and Mirrors? The (in)visible Worlds of David Bailly 06.05.2026 Prof. Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Universität Groningen): Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Material Theory for Art History 13.05.2026 Dr. Maryan Ainsworth (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Mysteries and Revelations: Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment 20.05.2026 Dr. Hélia Marçal (University College London): Authenticity and Capital: Unveiling Material Entanglements in the Political Economy of the Modern Museum 27.05.2026 Yorick Josua Berta MA (Freie Universität Berlin): Ideal Matter. Art, Bioplastics, and the Hope for Degradation 03.06.2026 Prof. Dr. Ron Spronk (Queens University, Kingston): Revealing Revisions: Mondrian's Transatlantic Paintings 10.06.2026 Dr. Heike Schlie (IMAREAL – Universität Salzburg): "I don't know if I should say unicorn". Intermaterial Identities around 1500 17.06.2024 Prof. Dr. Noémie Etienne (Universität Wien): Global Conservation: Histories and Theories
.Programme The lectures will be delivered in the lecture hall C1 on the University Campus at Universität Wien. They take place on Wednesdays from 16:45 to 18:15 CET. 11.03.2026 Prof. Dr. Ursula Ströbele (Hochschule für bildende Künste Braunschweig): “I like to work with pliable materials...“. Female Sculptors in Studio Photographs 18.03.2026 PD Dr. Henrike Haug (Universität Köln): „Ausbeute“ und „Bodenschatz“. Reflections on the Relation between Art, Nature, and Metals in Early Modern Mining Regions 15.04.2026 MMag.a. Heike Eipeldauer (Mumok Wien): 'I am busy with materials': Material Precarity and Exuberance in the Work of Medardo Rosso 22.04.2026 Prof. Dr. Andreas Huth (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg): Special Offer. On the Flexibility of Clay in the Florentine Quattrocento 29.04.2026 Prof. Dr. Karin Leonhard (Universität Konstanz): Smoke and Mirrors? The (in)visible Worlds of David Bailly 06.05.2026 Prof. Dr. Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Universität Groningen): Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: A Material Theory for Art History 13.05.2026 Dr. Maryan Ainsworth (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York): Mysteries and Revelations: Jan van Eyck’s Crucifixion and Last Judgment 20.05.2026 Dr. Hélia Marçal (University College London): Authenticity and Capital: Unveiling Material Entanglements in the Political Economy of the Modern Museum 27.05.2026 Yorick Josua Berta MA (Freie Universität Berlin): Ideal Matter. Art, Bioplastics, and the Hope for Degradation 03.06.2026 Prof. Dr. Ron Spronk (Queens University, Kingston): Revealing Revisions: Mondrian's Transatlantic Paintings 10.06.2026 Dr. Heike Schlie (IMAREAL – Universität Salzburg): "I don't know if I should say unicorn". Intermaterial Identities around 1500 17.06.2024 Prof. Dr. Noémie Etienne (Universität Wien): Global Conservation: Histories and Theories