Art History, Brussels Campus

Research topics of this unit are:
• photography theory: the ontology and identity of the photographic medium; the critical potential of photography in contemporary art (i.e. how can contemporary artistic practice, particularly photography and video-based art, question dominant conventions: representation conventions, aesthetic, legal, social and political conventions)
• art theory: the critical relationship between photography and painting today, in particular the impact of the phenomenon 'pictures / tableau'
• post-war abstract painting - minimal art
• Belgian art of the 20th and 21st centuries
• art research: research into new, collaborative methodologies that close the gap between contemporary artistic practice and art theory