Monographs

2026, The Artist as Organizer: Léna Meyer-Bergner and the Restructuring of Art and Labor in Modernism [forthcoming from De Gruyter]

2021, Statt Farbe: Licht. Das Fotogramm bei Moholy-Nagy als pädagogisches Medium, Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag.

Driven by his effort to understand painting as an art of light rather than pigment, László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) developed the photogram into a major new form of avant-garde practice. Inspired by his encounters with women’s communes at Loheland and Schwarzerden, he activated the technique’s latent educational potential. This book, the first study of Moholy-Nagy’s photogram pedagogy, traces the formalist derivation of this approach and deciphers its art-historical significance at the level of the sign. It argues that the pedagogical photogram, as a prime example of indexicality, fundamentally contrasts with photography’s conventional role as a medium of reproduction that generates meaning in the textual realm.

Editorial

2026, Toward a New Aesthetics: Institutional Criticism in Art Education from 1900 to Today, Series: Doing Arts Thinking: Arts Practice, Research and Education, Boston/Leiden: Brill, https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004729094.

Has art education lost its critical edge? Is art becoming just another form of intellectual labor? Toward a New Aesthetics argues that the increasing “scientification” of art is directly linked to a decline in institutional self-critique. This study offers the first comprehensive examination of institutional critique within art schools. Through contributions from art historians, critics, educators, and artists, you’ll trace a century of critical engagement, from radical challenge and transformative beginnings to today’s institutional affirmation. Explore international case studies and discover how the rise of artistic research has impacted art’s critical potential within the global knowledge economy.