Dr.in Laura Bohnenblust
Dr.in Laura Bohnenblust
University assistant, post-doc
Laura Bohnenblust is a university assistant (post-doc) at the Chair of Cultural Heritage Studies at the Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary art and exhibition history with a special focus on Latin America. In addition, her research interests include questions of intangible cultural heritage and performance art, migration and mobility in art, art in architecture and art in public space, as well as processes of (art) historiography and microhistory in a postcolonial context.
Laura Bohnenblust studied art history in Bern and Buenos Aires, as well as German literature in Bern. She conducted research in Argentina as part of her dissertation project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and completed her doctorate at the University of Bern on the global exhibition history of the 20th century concerning mobility using the example of an Argentinian traveling exhibition. 2017 she was Fellow at the Transregional Academy "Mobility - Objects, Materials, Concepts, Actors" in Buenos Aires, 2019 at the Transregional Academy "Spaces of Art: Concepts and Impacts In and Outside Latin America", in Ciudad de México. Laura Bohnenblust was previously a lecturer at the University of Zurich. She was also involved as curator of an Off-space in Bern, worked for a historical project on art in architecture in Switzerland, and was an active art mediator in various cultural institutions.
In her current research project, Laura Bohnenblust asks about the status of protest songs as intangible cultural heritage. Using contemporary installation and performance art as a starting point, she analyzes the historical context of their emergence and transmission across geographical and epochal boundaries and reveals the extent to which songs as embodied memory represent an alternative perspective for the storage and transmission of knowledge compared to the material archive.
Selected Publications
Monographs
- 2023, Arte Flotante. Mobilität und Mobilisierung in der Kunst Argentiniens der Nachkriegszeit, München: edition metzel, in preparation.
Essays
- 2020 "A Great Anti-Hero of Modern Art History: Juan Aebi in Buenos Aires", in: Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies, hrsg. von Burcu Dogramaci, Mareike Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee und Helene Roth, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2020, 55-72.
- 2019 «Tracing the Routes of Floating Exhibitions: A Fluid Cartography of Post-war Modernism Around 1956», in: Artl@s Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 3 (Fall 2019), Putting the Arts in their Place, hrsg. von Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel und Marco Jalla, 2019, 44–57.
- 2019 «03.09.1975: BUENOS AIRES – GENÈVE – PARIS», in: ECART: Almanach ECART; Une Archive Collective 1969–2019, hrsg. von Elisabeth Jobin und Yann Chateigné, Genève/Lausanne: HEAD/art&fiction publications, 2019, 277ff.
- 2018 «Flottieren und die Grenzen der Ordnungsstruktur: Die exposición flotante des Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (1956)», in: kritische berichte: Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Heft 2: Das Museum als Wirkraum, hrsg. von Anna Minta und Yvonne Schweizer, 2018, 74–84.
- 2018 gemeinsam mit Olivia Baeriswyl, «The Letter to the Editor: The Value of Controversy in Bern”, in: Localizing the Contemporary: The Kunsthalle Bern as a Model, hrsg. von Peter J. Schneemann, Zürich: jrp/ringier, 2018, 237–246.
- 2018 «‘Quemarme la identidad’ – Identität ausbrennen. Marta Minujíns ortsspezifische Auslöschung einer nationalen Werkdeutung», in: Into the Wild: Art and Architecture in a Global Context, hrsg. von Antonie Bassig, Laura Hindelang, Charlotte Matter and Filine Wagner, München: Edition Metzel, 2018, 35–44.
- 2015 «Afronauten und Chinakohl», in: Life on Mars: Stary Mwaba, Ausst.-Kat. Künstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, hrsg. von Nicola Müllerschön, Dortmund: Kettler, 2015, 36–59.