Michael Klipphahn-Karge
Michael is an art historian and assistant professor of history and theory of art and design at the Leipzig Academy of Fine Arts. He is also an associate researcher at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, where he previously served as a senior researcher. He received his PhD in art history at the Technical University of Dresden. Prior to this, he worked as a curator of contemporary art for various institutions. He studied fine arts, art history and philosophy in Dresden, Berlin, Rome and Ústí nad Labem.
Dis:connected ecologies – art after sustainability
This project investigates forms of dis:connective ecology in the field of art. Extractivist interventions imposed by fossil-fuel capitalism have inscribed themselves into artistic practices both as modes of action and as material politics. On a meta-level, it thus analyses regimes of distribution and institutionalisation under the sign of the ecological. Michael argues that the material demands of extractivisms are inherent to artistic practices, giving rise to ambivalences that can be conceptualised as dis:connectivity. As a comparison with ecology demonstrates, art simultaneously writes a connective history of production as well as a disjunctive history of consumption.
Have a look at Michael’s research poster about his project.