Julia Stachura - art historian
Julia Stachura is a university assistant with a PhD in the Department of Art History and Musicology since October 2026. Her current research is dedicated to the deconstruction of ethnographic and photographic archives by contemporary artists, focusing on the global majorities and diasporic practices, visual resistance, and strategies of creolization. Integrating perspectives from memory studies to decolonial studies, her work explores how lens-based media strategies challenge the socio-cultural power dynamics today.
Researchers from the two sections
Current research focuses on the architecture, sculpture and painting of historicism and modernism
Engages in various aspects of fundamental relationships between visual arts and techniques as part of research project
Active for many years in the field of modern and contemporary art
Joep Janssen's research interests lie in the interdisciplinary approach to music history, with a particular focus on the analysis of musical topoi and the connection between nature, politics and identity in the 19th century.
The current focus is on the discourses of posthumanism in relation to contemporary phenomena of musical culture
Focus on the topicality of critical theory as well as on possible connections between aesthetics and politics in contemporary art
Her research interests lie at the interface between musical notation, sketches and compositional processes on music from the 19th to 21st centuries, with a particular focus on aesthetics, media studies and digital aspects.
In her dissertation, Clara Nicolay examines the integration of performative practices into artistic production and network formation in Florence around 1600, focussing on the body as a medium of aesthetic experience as well as intermediary, affect- and body-based practices.
After working on the reconstruction of the production system of opera in the Eastern Adriatic theaters, the current focus is on Giuseppe Tartini's "School of Nations"
She focuses on the deconstruction of colonial image archives, the empowerment of Black people in photography, and the analysis of contemporary artistic practices of the Caribbean and African diaspora, examining power structures, memory, and identity in the context of visual media.
In her dissertation, Evelyn Urban explores the photographic work of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen during the Third Reich, focussing on its ideological classification and the construction of identity through physiognomic and landscape elements.
Works on the one hand on the composer Franz Waxman and his life and work "between film music and concert hall". Dedicates the new project to the digital edition of Gumpenhuber's theater chronicles