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Research

Research THEMES

19th and 20th century European art and architecture in its global contexts, German interwar art and visual culture, aesthetics and the historiography of art, theories of form and formalism, feminist and historical materialisms, life-making and the vitalist imagination, ecology, contemporary art

RESEARCH SUMMARY

Jenny鈥檚 research has focussed on revisiting Western European narratives of modern art and its histories. This interest has taken her to follow some of the side tracks, detours and sometimes less palatable routes of European art and aesthetics. Her forthcoming book Form as Contradiction (Brill Publishing) takes the presumed failures of the lose group of artists and writers gathered under the label of 鈥淏erlin Dada鈥� as a starting point for narrating a dissident history of formalisms in interwar Europe that sits squarely within received accounts of the period.

Jenny鈥檚 most recent research is on artists鈥�, architects鈥� and philosophers鈥� peculiar obsession with a vitalist aesthetics of organic processes, biological images and ecological models, which in the first decades of the 20th century cut across a broad spectrum of revolutionary as well as right-wing positions. She works towards a critical history of this contradictory and largely misunderstood episode of art history and aesthetics c. 1900-1950, aiming to further historicize current debates on ecology from the perspectives of the arts of modernity. She is especially interested in the wayward vitalisms that proliferated in aesthetic practices at the margins or outside of scientific discourse across the globe 鈥� in radical pedagogies, socialist and feminist internationalisms, and transnational networks of solidarity and friendship.听

Further research interests include feminist and materialist methods in art history, aesthetics and contemporary art. Jenny has written on post-war and contemporary artists for various exhibition catalogues, including essays on Rosemary Mayer, Senga Nengudi, Tetsumi Kudo, Jutta Koether and Jacqueline Humphries a.o. Her criticism has appeared in Artforum, art-agenda, frieze and Texte zur Kunst.

Research activities also include her work as curatorial assistant at Tate Modern and as scientific advisor to the exhibition and publication project 听(House of World Cultures Berlin, curated by Anselm Franke and Tom Holert). Together with Manuela Ammer, Eva Birkenstock, Kerstin Stakemeier and Stephanie Weber, Jenny initiated the exhibition and publication project . With Dorothea Walzer she organised .听

Selected Publications

BOOKS & EDITED VOLUMES

Form as Contradiction (Brill Publishing, forthcoming).
Hybrid Ecologies/ Hybride 脰kologien, ed. with Marietta Kesting, Maria Muhle, Susanne Witzgall (Berlin/ Zurich: Diaphanes, 2019 ) (German and English)
Discrimination / Diskriminierung: special issue, Texte zur Kunst, vol. 113 (March 2019), Co-editor
Class Languages/ Klassensprachen 鈥� Written Praxis, ed. with Manuela Ammer, Eva Birkenstock, Kerstin Stakemeier and Stephanie Weber (Berlin: Archive Books, 2017).

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & CHAPTERS

鈥淕et Rid of Your Self: Lu M盲rten鈥檚 Monist Art History鈥�, in Illiberal Arts, ed. Anselm Franke, Kerstin Stakemeier (Berlin: Polypen/b-books, 2021).
鈥淢anieristische Historiographie: Kunstgeschichte und Kritische Theorie鈥�, in Kunst um 1800. Ausstellen als wissenschaftliche Praxis, ed. Petra Lange-Berndt, Isabelle Lindermann, Dietmar R眉bel, (forthcoming).
鈥淎rt Work as Life Work. On Lu M盲rten鈥檚 Feminist 鈥極bjectivity鈥欌�� (with Kerstin Stakemeier), October, vol. 178 (Fall 2021).听
鈥淟u M盲rten. An Introduction鈥� (with Kerstin Stakemeier), October, vol. 178 (Fall 2021).听
鈥淟颈蹿别鈥�, Kunst und Politik. Jahrbuch der Guernica-Gesellschaft, Vol. 21, Special issue: Keywords for Marxist Art History Today, ed. Andrew Hemingway, Larne Abse Gogart (Amsterdam: v&r unipress, 2020).
鈥淭oxic Relations. Ecology, Aesthetics (and their Discontents)鈥�, in Hybrid Ecologies, (Berlin/ Zurich: Diaphanes, 2019).
鈥淭he Aesthetics of a Fractured Vitalism鈥�, in Post-Apocalyptic Self-Reflection, ed. Tanja Widmann, Laure Preston (Vienna: Westphalie Verlag 2019).
鈥淰italism/ Living Form鈥� in Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930, ed. Anselm Franke, Tom Holert (Berlin/ Zurich: Diaphanes, 2018).
鈥淔ormalism鈥�, in Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930, ed. Anselm Franke, Tom Holert (Berlin/ Zurich: Diaphanes, 2018).
听鈥淭otality鈥�, in Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False Present, c. 1930, ed. Anselm Franke, Tom Holert (Berlin/ Zurich: Diaphanes, 2018).
听鈥淩ealism after Fetishism, or What is the Realism that We Need in a Time of Catastrophe? On the Realism Debates of the 1930s and the 2010s鈥�, in Die Wirklichkeit des Realismus, ed. Joseph Vogl, Veronika Thanner, Dorothea Walzer (Munich: Fink Verlag, 2017).听
鈥溾�欌�橮sychoanalytic Cinema of Painting鈥�: Notes on Berlin Dada, Psychoanalysis and Technique鈥�, in Object: Graduate Research and Reviews in the History of Art and Visual Culture, vol. 16, 2014.

CATALOGUE ESSAYS听

鈥淔eminism without Conceptualism. On Rosemary Mayer鈥檚 Ways of Almost not Making Sculpture鈥�, in Rosemary Mayer 鈥� Ways of Attaching, ed. Laura McLean-Ferris, Stephanie Weber, Lenbachhaus Munich, Swiss Institute New York, (forthcoming 2022).
鈥淭he Lawless Vitality of Sculpture, c. 1960-80. Formalism鈥檚 Monsters, Cybernetic Breakdowns and the Joys of Deviation鈥�, in Future Bodies from a Recent Past鈥擲culpture, Technology, and the Body since the 1950s, ed. Patrizia Dander, Museum Brandhorst Munich (Munich: DKV, 2022).
鈥淐onvulsively Beautiful Data鈥�, in Jacqueline Humphries, ed. Johanna Burton, Mark Godfrey (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2022).
鈥淧ainting as Deotur. Jutta Koether鈥檚 Late Work Gambits鈥�, in Jutta Koether 鈥� Libertine, ed. Susanne Titz (Cologne: Koenig Books, 2020).听
听鈥淥n the Chronopolitics of Form, or the Blue Flower in the Land of Biotechnology鈥�, in Christian Kosmas Mayer, ed. Rainer Fuchs, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 2019.听
鈥淭he Rehearsal as Form: An Essay on Yvonne Rainer鈥檚 Lives of Performers鈥� (with Dorothea Walzer), Putting Rehearsals to the Test. Practices of Rehearsal in Fine Arts, Film, Theater, Theory, and Politics, ed. Sabeth Buchmann, Ilse Lafer, Constanze Ruhm (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016).

Teaching and Supervision

Jenny currently teaches a variety of undergraduate modules, including 鈥淧lanetary/Provincial: Modern Art and Architecture in its Global Context鈥�, 听鈥淭he Modern Arts of Living鈥� and the 鈥淗istory of the Category 鈥楢rt鈥欌��.听

She welcomes enquiries from potential postgraduate students keen to work on topics relating to modern and contemporary art and architecture in its global contexts, German interwar culture, questions of life and the living/dead, aesthetics or feminism and materialism. Prospective students should contact Jenny directly at: jenny.nachtigall@ucl.ac.uk.听

Biography

Jenny Nachtigall joined the department in 2022 as a Lecturer in Modernity and its Critical Histories. She was awarded her PhD in the History of Art at 香港六合彩中特网 in 2017. Prior to her appointment, she held visiting professorships in the history of art and aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich, the St盲delschule Frankfurt, and the Goethe University Frankfurt. Jenny鈥檚 research and teaching were supported by the AHRC, the DAAD, the DFG Foundation, Etxepare Euskal Instiutua and VW Foundation a.o.