Dr Kea Wienand // University of Oldenburg

Dr Kea Wienand

LfbA, Art History and Visual Culture

A09 0-011, Tel. 0441-798-2428

Academic appointment

Studied art history, psychology, education and cultural gender studies

2004 - 2006 PhD scholarship holder in the DFG Research Training Group "Identity and Difference. Gender constructions and interculturality" at the University of Trier

2009 - 2019 Research assistant at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg

2012 PhD at the University of Oldenburg with a thesis on artistic negotiations of cultural difference in the art of the Federal Republic of Germany (1960 - 1990)

Visiting professorships for art studies and gender studies (summer semester 2018 University of Konstanz, winter semester 2019/20 University of Vienna)

Since August 2021 Teaching staff for special tasks at the Institute of Art and Visual Culture at the University of Oldenburg (permanent)

Main areas of work

Art and visual culture of the 19th - 21st century
Post/decolonial studies and transculturality
Gender studies and queerfeminist art studies
Artistic myth research
Cultures of remembrance, artistic approaches to history

Publications

Monograph:

After Primitivism? Artistic negotiations of cultural difference in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1960-1990. A postcolonial re-reading. Bielefeld: transcript 2015.

Editorships:

Together with Liesbeth Minnaard: Positionings. Critical Responses to the "Refugee Crisis" in Art and Literature // Positionings. Critical Responses to the 'Refugee Crisis' in Art and Literature. 66th issue of FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. September 2019, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/78

Together with Anja Herrmann: Visual Fat Studies. 62nd issue of FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. August 2017, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/74

Together with Kerstin Brandes: Germany (post)colonial? Visual cultures of memory and interwoven histories. 59th issue of FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. January 2016, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/issue/view/69

Together with Angelika Bartl, Josch Hoenes and Patricia Mühr: Seeing - Power - Knowledge. ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory. Bielefeld: transcript 2011.

Collective editorship of the Research Training Group Identity and Difference: Ethnicity and Gender. (Post-)Colonial Negotiations in History, Art and Media. Cologne: Böhlau 2005.

Contributions to journals, anthologies and catalogues:

Inheriting an African room, decolonising inhabited history - the photo book Das Erbe (2020) by Anne Schönharting. In: Silke Förschler and Astrid Schönhagen (eds.): Trophäen. Staging the hunt in living and exhibition spaces. Bielefeld: transcript (forthcoming 2025).

Artistic Memories of History(ies) - Reflections on Historical Knowledge Production and Transcultural Links. In: Museumsquartier der Stadt Osnabrück (ed.): #nichtmuedewerden - Felix Nussbaum und künstlerischer Widerstand heute. Cologne: Wienand Verlag (forthcoming 2025).

Imaginative Spaces of the Other in German Expressionism. In: Julia Carrasco and Frieder Hepp (eds.): Die Erfindung des Fremden in der Kunst. Exhib. cat. of the Kurpfälzisches Museum Heidelberg. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag 2024, pp. 122 - 129.

Artistically Juxtaposed (Hi)stories: Hiwa K's View from Above as a Multidirectional Memory Practice. In: Catherine Bublatzky, Burcu Dogramaci, Kerstin Pinther and Mona Schieren (eds.): Entangled Histories of Art and Migration. Theories, Sites and Research Methods. Bristol: INTELLECT 2024, pp. 15 - 26.

Taking up space. In: Ngozi Schommers. Tracings of Time and Space. Ed. By Bukola Oyebode. Amsterdam Lagos: TSA Ideas Lab 2023, pp. 31 - 33.

Tracing the history of an impostor. In: Catalogue Alex Wissel, Rheingold (forthcoming 2023).

The concept of the contact zone. In: exhib. cat. Beyond Homogeneity. Edited by Nicole Griese-Kroner, Alejandro Perdomo Daniels. Syker Vorwerk. Centre for Contemporary Art 2022, pp. 104 - 110.

Art. In: Anja Herrmann et al. (ed.): Fat Studies. A glossary. Bielefeld: transcript 2022, pp. 185 - 188 (Open Access)

Co-ed. w. Liesbeth Minnaard: Introduction. Positioning. Critical responses to the 'refugee crisis' // Introduction. Positionings. Critical Responses to the "Refugee Crisis" in Art and Literature. In: this. (ed.): FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, issue 66, September 2019, pp. 5 - 16.

Text for the artistic edition: Hannimari Jokinen, Greener Pastures (2015 - 2019). In: FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, issue 66, September 2019.

'German' colonial history as a theme of postcolonial art. In: Marianne Bechhaus-Gerst and Joachim Zeller (eds.): Deutschland postkolonial. The end and aftermath of the German quest for world power. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2018, pp. 432 - 453.

Nothing happened? (catalogue text) In: exhib. cat. Norbert Bauer. Nothing happened. Bremen: OpenSpace Edition, Bremen 2018, n.p. and online: www.norbert-bauer.com/texte/nichts-passiert/

Feminism, Postcolonialism and Contemporary Art. In: exhib. cat. Ayse Erkmen and Mona Hatoum. Displacements / Entortungen. Museum of Fine Arts Leipzig. Edited by Frédèric Bussmann. Vienna: Verlag für moderne Kunst 2017, p. 141 - 157.

Fat dancing - What's to lose? A self-experiment. Text for the artistic edition by Doris Uhlig. In: FKW // Journal for Gender Studies and Visual Culture. 62nd issue, August 2017, pp. 88 - 94.

First invited, then photographed: Images of refugees in museums and other educational institutions. In: Maren Ziese and Caroline Gritschke (eds.): Geflüchtete und Kulturelle Bildung. Formats and concepts for a new field of practice. Bielefeld: transcript 2016, p. 217 - 224.

Postcolonial reflections of artistic works. In: Bildpunkt. Journal of the IG Bildende Kunst. Summer 2016, no. 39, p. 4 - 7. Online at www.igbildendekunst.at/bildpunkt/2016/andere-in-der-ferne/wienand.htm

Together w. Kerstin Brandes: Germany (post)colonial? Visual cultures of memory and interwoven history(ies). An introduction. In: FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, issue 59, 2016, www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw

I like America and America likes me: Joseph Beuys' self-staging as a shaman and Native American in the context of German memory culture. In: FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Issue 59, 2016.

White Self-Stylisation as 'Other' and/or Attempt at Solidarity? A postcolonial re-reading of Wolf Vostell's collage "The Fluxists are..." (1980). In: Anna Greve (ed.): Whiteness and Art. Yearbook of the Guernica Society, vol. 17, Göttingen: V+R Uni Press 2015, pp. 87 - 100.

What needs to be preserved. Ferdinand Pettrich's Indians - Images of masculinity and femininity in the 19th century. In: Tecumseh, Keokuk, Black Hawk. Indian portraits in times of treaties and expulsion. Exhib. cat. of the Dresden State Art Collection. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche 2013, pp. 158 - 164.

New Guinea - A Projection Critical of Civilisation. In: Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel (eds.): Sigmar Polke: We Petty Bourgeois. Comrades and Contemporaries. The 1970s. Cologne: Walther König 2011, pp. 162 - 169.

Together with Angelika Bartl, Kerstin Brandes, Josch Hoenes and Patricia Mühr: Introduction. In: This (ed.): Seeing - Power - Knowledge. ReSaVoir. Images in the field of tension between culture, politics and memory. Bielefeld: transcript 2011, p. 11 - 27.

What am I allowed to say at all? Reflections on a non-standardising and non-racialising art education practice. In: Carmen Mörsch (ed.): Art mediation. Between critical practice and service. Berlin, Zurich: diaphanes 2009, p. 125 - 144.

New Guinea. In: Petra Lange-Berndt and Dietmar Rübel (eds.): Sigmar Polke: Wir Kleinbürger! Contemporaries and contemporaries. The 1970s. Cologne: Walther König 2009, pp. 146 - 153.

If looks could kill. Kea Wienand and Shahram Entekhabi. In: Shahram Entekhabi (ed.): One Person's Trash is another Person's Treasure. In the book by series of the Fine Arts Unternehmen Books AG. Lugano 2008.

'It's about modern art, we don't fit in. Report on a documenta 12 art education project with a group of Russian-German women. In: The Thing Hamburg. www.thing-hamburg.de. 2008.

Primitivist Fantasies: 'The East' - 'the Indian' - 'the Healing'. Joseph Beuys meets a coyote. In: do not exist. europe, woman, digital medium. 4th volume of the publication series labour: theory, edited by thealit Frauen.Kultur.Labor. Bremen: thealit 2008.

"If looks could kill ..." Stagings of migrant masculinity. Shahram Entekhabi in conversation with Kea Wienand. In: Critical Reports. Journal for Art and Cultural Studies. Issue 4/2007, p. 61 - 64.

Gender - Memory. A résumé. In: Gender Memory. Representations of memory, remembrance and gender. FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 39. 1/2005, p. 133 -140.

Functions of visual representations of alterity - considerations from a gender-theoretical and postcolonial perspective. In: Timo Luks et al. (eds.): Negotiations with the Present. Social science debates on power, domination and violence. Münster: Lit-Verlag 2005, pp. 203 - 214.

Together with Denise Daum, Andrea Geier and Iulia Patrut: Introduction. In: Graduiertenkolleg Identität und Differenz (ed.): Ethnizität und Geschlecht. (Post-) Colonial Negotiations in History, Art and Media. Cologne: böhlau 2005, p. 3 - 20.

Together with Jose Presmanes: A Pleasant Flight. In: Exhibition catalogue of the exhibition German Open. Contemporary Art in Germany at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz 2000.

Reviews:

Review of: Kathrin Hoffmann-Curtius: Pictures of the Murder of the Jews. An annotated review of painting and graphic art in Germany from 1945 to the Auschwitz trial. Marburg: Jonas Verlag 2014. in: Feminist Studies, 33rd vol. no. 2, November 2015, pp. 332 - 334.

Review of: Stefan Horlacher (ed.): "When is a woman a woman?" "When is a man a man?". Constructions of gender from antiquity to the 21st century. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2010. In: Katharina Hottmann (ed.): Liedersingen: Studies on the Performance History of the Lied. Hildesheim: Olms 2013 (Yearbook Music and Gender 6), p. 180 - 182.

Together with Melanie Ulz: Review of Evelyn Annuß (ed.): Stagings Made in Namibia. Postcolonial Photography. Berlin 2009. in: Journal for Media Studies, March 2010, zfmedienwissenschaft.de/online/buchbesprechung/annuss-stagings-made-namibia

Together with Melanie Ulz: Review of Klaus von Beyme: Die Faszination des Exotischen. Exotism, racism and sexism in art. Munich 2007 In: FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 47, December 2009, pp. 86 - 89.

Together with Patricia Mühr: Von Einklammerungen. A report on the 7th Women Art Historians' Conference, 26 - 29 September 2002 in Berlin. In: FrauenKunstWissenschaft. Issue 35, June 2003, pp. 75 - 77.

Miscellaneous:

Introduction to Section III: Visual Politics. In: Bauer, Robin; de Silva, Adrian and Utan Schirmer (eds.): Von Fröschen, Einhörnern und Schmetterlingen. Trans*_queere Wirklichkeiten und visuelle Politiken. Writings by Josch Hoenes (1972-2019). Esch-sur-Alzette: Melusina Press 2023, p. 129 - 134. PDF document here.

Does Joseph Beuys still promise healing? In: diskus. Frankfurter Student_innen Zeitschrift, 27.08.21. (Open Access)

Together with Silke Förschler, Kerstin Schankweiler and Melanie Ulz: Obituary for Viktoria Schmidt-Linsenhoff. In: FKW//Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur. Issue 54, June 2013, http://www.fkw-journal.de/index.php/fkw/article/view/14/11

Knowledge from national interstices. A project between Russian-German women living in Kassel and the documenta 12 art education programme. documenta 12 one-off brochure. Kassel 2007 and as pdf document.