Philipp Goldbach: Image Cycle, Medium format slide projection, 2021. Installation view of 3,906 archive boxes decommissioned during the relocation of the Rheinisches Bildarchiv, Cologne. Park of Burg Lede, Bonn. © Philipp Goldbach / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2022 

Bio

Corinna Kühn  is an Art Historian and Research Associate in the Department of Art History at the University of Münster (WWU). Her dissertation, which was published in 2020, is a comprehensive study of the medialization of performance and action art in Central Eastern Europe during the 1970s. From 2009 to 2012, she held a scholarship from the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne. Thanks to a DAAD scholarship and a scholarship from the German Historical Institute in Warsaw, she was able to conduct research in Poland, Hungary, and Romania. Kühn has published academic articles on the work of contemporary artists like Marran Gosov, Dmitry Gutov, Jiří Kovanda, Zofia Kulik, Przemysław Kwiek, and Endre Tót. Her research interests are the history of art in Central Eastern Europe, art under totalitarian circumstances, the medialization of performance and action art, theories of film and video art, artists’ networks and archives, the feminist avant-garde, theories of the (neo-)avant-garde, exhibition history, and praxeological approaches to art history.