Anna Kipke

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Anna Kipke is a doctoral researcher (predoc) at the Collaborative Research Center 1512 Intervening Arts at Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Free University Berlin. Her research interests include history and theory of modern and abstract art, the historiography of artistic practices, and trauma and healing as themes in 20th and 21st century art. In her dissertation project »Emma Kunz. Therapeutic Lines«, she examines therapeutic practices as methods of artistic intervention between 1930 and 1960. The work focuses on the historical reconstruction of drawing and healing practice of the Swiss artist Emma Kunz (1892–1963) based on testimonies of former patients. Together with the artistic positions of Eva Aeppli (1925–2015) and Agnes Denes (*1931), she analyzes artistic forms of the personal (autobiography / testimony) in order to grasp therapeutic practices in individual and social moments of crisis. As co-editor in the context of the CRC Intervening Arts, the publication »Drafts in Action. Concepts and Practices of Artistic Intervention« will be published by diaphanes in 2025. 

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