Dr. Johanna Spanke
Photo: P. Feuerböther
Research Associate
ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020 "Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt"
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- Modern and contemporary art with a special focus on Mexican and US-American art of the 20th century
- Theory and history of photography
- Transcultural and intermedial entanglements
- Gender and postcolonial studies
- Difficult Heritage
Subproject 6: Removed, Replaced, Wrapped, Remodelled: ‘Difficult Heritage’ and the case of Christopher Columbus
Vita
Johanna Spanke studied Art History and Classical Archaeology at the Freie Universität Berlin. 2013-2021: Research assistant at the Department of Art History at Universität Hamburg. 2014: DAAD travel grant, research stays in the USA and Mexico. 2016-2019: Doctoral scholarship holder of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung Düsseldorf. 2021: PhD on photomurals in Mexico and the USA, title of dissertation: »,It might be fun to do the Capitol in murals.‘ Zur Genese des photomural im transnationalen Aushandlungsprozess zwischen Mexiko und den USA« (publication by De Gruyter, 2023). 2021: External lecturer at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 2021-2022: Research fellow of the Isa Lohmann-Siems Stiftung in Hamburg in the annual project »Widerspruch!? Medien, Praktiken und Räume des Widersprechens« with the sub-project »(Re-)Claiming Space: Formen der Selbstermächtigung in den Werken von Chicanx-Kunstschaffenden am Beispiel der Gruppe Asco.« Since August 2022 Research associate (postdoc) with Margit Kern in the project »Visual Scepticism. Towards an Aesthetic of Doubt" (ERC Advanced Grant Horizon 2020) with the sub-project 6: »Removed, Replaced, Wrapped, Remodelled: ‘Difficult Heritage’ and the case of Christopher Columbus.«
