Carolin Heel
Curation and artistic mediation
In 2023, Carolin defended her dissertation on gender-specific artistic identity at ABK Karlsruhe. There, she also worked as a freelance member of the Equal Opportunities Commission and organized the two-day symposium against abuse of power, "Talking Back. Speaking Out Against Discrimination." At the intersection of academia and practice-oriented teaching, she led the seminar "Art and Gender" at AdBK Karlsruhe and regularly teaches the interdisciplinary seminar "Language and Poetics" in the Master’s program "Body, Poetics, and the Practice of the Performative" at ABK Stuttgart. With a focus on affect and emotion theory, her research interests include gender, language, and visual theory. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the DFG-funded project "Visual Education" at the University of Hamburg. Additionally, she has specialized in academic management within research institutions to develop sustainable infrastructures connecting practice and academia. She is particularly interested in the intersection of art, academia, and politics. For ato, Carolin represents the artists Daniele Dell’Eva, Valentina Jaffé and Jordan Madlon.
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Publications / catalog texts / exhibition texts
opening speeches / lectures / exhibition management /
Workshops and teaching
Vita
Current
Research Assistant (Post-Doc) | University of Hamburg
DFG-Project "Visuelle Bildung"
Education
Doctorate, Art Sciences, Dr. phil. (des.) | AdBK Karlsruhe
Aptitude assessment procedure for the art reasearch doctorate
Studied Art Education (Painting/Graphics and Intermedia Design) and Fine Arts | AdBK Karlsruhe and ABK Stuttgart
Experience
Editor | Grosse Verlag Karlsruhe
Freelancer for the Equal Opportunities Commission | AdBK Karlsruhe
Research Assistant | AdBK Karlsruhe
Teaching
Seminar: Writing and Poetics, Master's program, Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative | ABK Stuttgart
Seminar: Writing and Poetics, Master's program, Body, Theory and Poetics of the Performative | ABK Stuttgart
Seminar: Art and Gender | AdBK Karlsruhe
Texts and publications (selection)
Wiederkehrend. John Baldessaris Blue Line, in: Visualität und Responsivität | Edited by Andrea Sabisch, Jörg Sternagel, Volkmar Mühleis, Katja Böhme | Hamburg: Textem Verlag | Series: Visuelle Bildung, Vol. 5, 2025.
sticky emotions. Tracey Emin und Richie Culver – Zur Geschlechterspezifik künstlerischer Identität. | Dissertation | (expected) Munich: De Gruyter, 2025 (Publication in preparation)
Gedanken über Zustände | in: Catalogue raisonné 2020-2022 | Edited by Ateliers im Delta and Valentina Jaffé | Mannheim, 2023.
Set Up | in: Set Up | Kat. Auss., Christian Patruno and André Wischnewski | Published by Kunstverein Worms | Worms, 2022.
Über die Verbindung | in: Kat. Auss., ZigZag | Published by Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim | Bad Dürkheim, 2022.
Valentina Jaffé | in: Kat. Auss., Deltabeben, Regionale 2020 | Published by Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheimer Kunstverein, PORT25 | Verlag Stefanie Kleinsorge | Mannheim, 2021.
Lectures and workshops (selection)
Sticky gender: Sarah Lucas und die Konstruktion von Geschlecht | Lecture as part of the exhibition Sarah Lucas. Sense of Human | Kunsthalle Mannheim (02.10.2024).
Bilder im Entstehen | Workshop contribution | Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik (DGÄ) Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien | together with Andrea Sabisch, Jörg Sternagel, Volkmar Mühleis, Katja Böhme | University of Fribourg, Switzerland (10.09.2024).
Phenomena | Speech | Stadtmuseum Bad Dürkheim (29.02.2024).
The Confluence of Different Parts and Their Shelters | Lecture Performance | Winterschool: Mediation in Transformation | AdBK Stuttgart (27.02.2023).
Später, nachdem sich alle zurückgezogen haben, hängt jeder seinen eigenen Gedanken nach… | Lecture, Intervention IV »André Wischnewski« | kunstraum friesenstrasse Hannover, Collection Dr. Gisela Sperling (09.03.2022).
Über die Verbindung | Lecture on the occasion of the group exhibition ZIGZAG | Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim (25.09.2021).
Links
DFG project "Visuelle Bildung":
https://visuellebildung.blogs.uni-hamburg.de
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