Substitute for Dr Maja Figge – Research project: Choreographing as knowledge practice

Research Project: New Baroque Worlds of Knowledge: On the Current Relevance of Premodern Cosmologies in Contemporary Art and Theory

Research Project: Entangled Modernisms. Transnational Film Relations between Western Europe and India and The Emergence of Modern Cinema (1947–1975)

Research Project: The Category of the Documentary as a Point of Intersection between Artistic Knowledge Production and Extra-Artistic Information Processing

Dr. Grit Köppen is currently conducting research on decolonial aesthetics in contemporary drama and theater. In this context, she is investigating decolonial artistic strategies.

His dissertation "Prekäre Oberflächen: Zur Materialität des Bildes und des Körpers am Beispiel der künstlerischen Praxis Francis Bacons" (Precarious surfaces: on the materiality of the image and the body in the artistic practice of Francis Bacon) appeared in early 2015 with the Deutscher Kunstverlag.

Precarious Things: Histories of Knowledge of Arts and Crafts and Provisional Arrangements as Objects of Knowledge