K.U.Leuven - Arts Faculty
Erasmushuis
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21/03
B - 3000 Leuven
About > Staff
The staff of the Centre consists of:
two Directors: Prof. Hilde Van Gelder (Department of Art History, K.U.Leuven)
and
Prof. Alexander Streitberger (ARKE, Université catholique de Louvain)
Prof. Hilde Van Gelder teaches modern and contemporary art history at the K.U.Leuven and has a PhD on temporality and the experience of time in art of the 1960s. Her photographic research is focussed on photography's contribution to the confusion of the artistic genres in postwar art and on the medium's critical function in contemporary art, especially Belgian art.
Together with Helen Westgeest (University Leiden) she is currently writing a book on the theory of photography in contemporary art, to be published by Blackwell in 2011.
Prof. Alexander Streitberger teaches modern and contemporary art history at the U.C.Louvain. His PhD thesis on the influence of language philosophy on 20th-century art has been published under the title Ausdruck - Modell - Diskurs. Sprachreflexion in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts ( Berlin : Reimer). His photographic research is focused on the relationship between the still (photographic) and the moving (filmic) image, and the photographic discourses of modernity and modernism.
four Fellow-professors: Prof. Jan Baetens (Institute for Cultural Studies, K.U.Leuven)
Prof. T.J. Demos (University College London)
Dr. Javier Gimeno Martínez (VU University Amsterdam)
and Dr. Maarten Vanvolsem (Sint-Lukas Brussels University College of Art and Design)
Prof. Jan Baetens, was director of the Centre, together with Prof. Hilde Van Gelder, since it was founded in 2004 until 2008.
Jan
teaches at the Institute for Cultural Studies, of the K.U.Leuven has a PhD in French literature. His research on photography is oriented towards the narrative uses of the medium, interart comparison, and the cultural dynamics of 'high' and 'low' (for instance in the field of the so-called "photonovella"). A contributing editor to History of Photography and FotoMuseum Magazine , he has published (often in French) several books and many articles on photography.
Prof. T.J. Demos is Reader of modern and contemporary art at University College London. During the academic year 2009-2010 he joined the Lieven Gevaert Centre’s staff. During this time Hilde Van Gelder and T.J. Demos collaborated on a research project entitled ‘The concept of statelessness in contemporary art’, within the framework of a VLAC-Fellowship. He continues to collaborate with the centre within the framework of the ‘In and Out of Brussels’ project.
Dr. Javier Gimeno Martínez is Assistant Professor at the VU University Amsterdam. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History.
Dr. Maarten Vanvolsem is Head of the MA-programme in Photography at Sint-Lukas Brussels University College. He recently published a book MOVE:IN:TIME in collaboration with the Concertgebouw Brugge, on the occasion of the International Dance Festival December Dance . In the last 5 years he has had several solo- and group-exhibitions in Belgium and abroad.
