University of Heidelberg

Kontaktinformationen

Karl Jaspers Centre
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 105
69115 Heidelberg
Germany

Email:

koch@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de

Telefon:

+49 (0) 6221 54 4307

Ãœber Franziska Koch

Ph.D.-thesis (submitted March 2012, Philipps-Universität Marburg):

"Bilder Chinas in der Ausstellung.
Zeitgenössische chinesische Kunst und ihre westliche Rezeption im Spannungsfeld der Globalisierung"

"China(’s) images on display.
Contemporary Chinese art and its Western reception in the age of globalization"

Read Abstract in English here (PDF, 14,8KB)
Read Abstract in German here (PDF, 16KB)

HRA-related project:
GECCA mapped – mapping a sample of the exhibition data base GECCA (Group Exhibitions of Contemporary Chinese Art after 1979) in Google Earth

Link to the artist’s website: www.franziskakoch.com

Projekte

• D13 Multizentrische Modernismen

Lebenslauf

Since July 2009: Assistant Professor of Global Art History (chair: Prof. Dr. Monica Juneja) in the Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, Heidelberg University.

October 2006 – July 2009: Scholarship of the Graduate Research Group "Image-Body-Medium. An Anthropological Perspective" (funded by the German Science Foundation, DFG) at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (director: Prof. Dr. Beat Wyss).

Since February 2006: Ph.D. project in art history at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart, since October 2008 sustained at the Philipps-University Marburg, continuously supervised by Prof. Dr. Hubert Locher.

April 2005: Graduation of the minor German Language and Literature Studies at the Stuttgart University (Staatsexamen).

Winter term 2003: Studies of Fine Art and Chinese language at the Shandong Normal University in Jinan, PRC, in the Department of National Painting (Guohua), scholarship of the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium.

2003-2004: Studies of Multi-Media Art at Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Staatexamen graduation of this minor, class of Prof. Mike Hentz).

2001- 2002: Studies in the Department of Oriental Painting at Seoul National University in South-Korea, scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

1997 – 2003: Studies in Fine Arts and Arts Education at the Staatliche Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart (Staatsexamen graduation of the majors Painting and Graphics, supervised by Prof. Cordula Güdemann, and Art History), scholarship of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Books/Edited volumes

Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, (ed. with Birgit Hopfener, Juliane Noth and Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch), Weimar: VDG, (forthcoming 2012).

Multi-Centred Modernisms. Reconfiguring Asian Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centures, (ed. with Monica Juneja), Theme Issue, E-journal transculturalstudies.org, 2010-11.

Articles

"(Dis-)Playing Mahjong. Uli Sigg and the Power of Private Collectors in the Global Canonization of Chinese Contemporary Art", in: Negotiating Difference. Contemporary Chinese Art in the Global Context, (ed. with Birgit Hopfener, Juliane Noth and Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch), Weimar: VDG, (forthcoming 2012).   

"Synthesis in Display? The Making of an Early Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art – China Avantgarde (Berlin/1993)", in: Francesca Dal Lago (ed.), China on Display, Leiden: Brill Publishers, (forthcoming 2012).  

"‘China’ on Display for European Audiences? The Making of an Early Travelling Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art: China Avantgarde (Berlin/1993)", transculturalstudies.org, no. 2 (2011). 

"Wessen Aus-Stellung? 'Mahjong' und die Dis-Position des europäischen Sammlers von chinesischer Gegenwartskunst", in: Martin Schulz and Beat Wyss (eds.), Techniken des Bildes, München: Fink Verlag, 2010, pp. 81-100.

"Dead (and dying) bodies as 'material' in contemporary Chinese art – Approaches to a glocal phenomenon", in: Linda Báez-Rubí et al. (eds.), The intineraries of the image: practices, uses and functions (Los itinerarios de la imagen. Prácticas, usos y funciones), México: Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, UNAM, 2010, pp. 243-262.

Briefe aus der chinesischen Gegenwart. Eine offene Korrespondenz zweier Studenten zwischen China und Deutschland, Schriftenreihe der Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 2005.