University of Applied Sciences and Arts
Northwestern Switzerland
Academy of Art and Design
Campus of the Arts
Freilager-Platz 1
4142 Münchenstein near Basel
+ 41 61 228 44 00 (reception)
+ 41 61 228 41 35
www.fhnw.ch/hgk
Financing

Cooperation Partners
Zurich University of the Arts
Cultural Analysis in the Arts
Prof. Dr. phil. Sigrid Adorf
Professor of Contemporary Art and Cultural Analysis
https://www.zhdk.ch

Free University of Berlin
Art History Institute
Prof. Dr. Peter Geimer
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History
https://www.fu-berlin.de

The Leibniz Center for Contemporary History
Contemporary History Digital: Project Visual History (since 2013)
https://zzf-potsdam.de/

Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art
Prof. (apl.) Dr. phil. Ulf Wuggenig
Sociology of Art
https://www.leuphana.de

Project Partnerships
Research project Crisis and Communitas (2018-2022), funded by Swiss National Science Foundation, Bern
Project Lead:
University of Zurich
Slavic Seminar
Prof. Dr. Dorota Sajewska
Assistant Professor for Interart (Eastern Europe)
https://www.uzh.ch/de.html

Research project Translating Memories: The Eastern European Past in the Global Arena, funded by the European Research Council (2020-2024)
Project Lead:
Tallinn University
School of Humanities
Prof. Dr. Eneken Laanes
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis
https://www.tlu.ee/en

Associated Researchers
University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hanover
Faculty III – Media, Information and Design
Department Design and Media
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Weltzien
Professor of Creativity and Psychology of Perception
https://www.hs-hannover.de/

Estonian Academy of Arts
Institute of Art History and Visual Culture
Dr. Margaret Tali
Post-Doc
https://www.artun.ee/en/home/

metroZones – Center for Urban Affairs
Project Lead Taksim/Humboldt (working title)
Orhan Esen
Historiographer of the Urban, Weltoffenes Berlin Fellow of Berlin's Senate,
in collaboration with Allianz Kulturstiftung
