Anke Haarmann is Program Director of PhDArts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Professor of Practice and Theory of Research in the Visual Arts and Research Lector Art Theory and Practice at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague.
Prof. Dr. Anke Haarmann is a philosopher, artist, and design theoretician. The main focus of her work is artistic research, design research, visual culture, and public space. Anke Haarmann studied philosophy and fine arts in Hamburg, Berlin, and Maastricht and earned her doctorate in philosophy at the University of Potsdam.
Anke Haarmann founded the "Centre for Design Research", a platform for practice-based, design research as well as critical theory, at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg. She currently heads the German Society for Artistic Research together with Mathias Zeiske and Michaela Melián and leads the research project "Speculative Space (SpecSpace): Labor zur Erprobung und Erforschung epistemischer Designpraktiken" (2019-2022).
Haarmann is regularly invited to give lectures and publishes monographs, articles, and papers on artistic and design research, including but not limited to: "Die Keimzelle. Transformative Praxen einer anderen Stadtgesellschaft. Theoretische und Künstlerische Zugänge", Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021; "Artistic Research: Eine epistemologische Ästhetik", Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2019; "Künstlerische Forschung" in: Handbuch Designwissenschaft. Geschichte – Theorie – Praxis. Eds. Thomas Hensel and Oliver Ruf. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2021; "Praxologie der Kunst. Kunst als Praxis" in: Handbuch Kunstphilosophie. Ed. Judith Siegmund. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021; "Theater of Research" in: The Routledge Companion to Performance Philosophy. Eds. Cull Ó Maoilearca/Alice Lagaay. London: Routledge, 2020.
Professor Practice and theory of research in the visual arts
Faculty of Humanities
Academie der Kunsten
Work address
P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden
Room number 2.13
Haarmann A. & Körschkes T. (2023), Specology. Entangled Practices. Universität Hildesheim, Hildesheim. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2023), Artistic Research – Künstlerische Forschung. über Disruptionen – and Crossovers. Kunsthochschule Bremen, Bremen. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2023), Praktiken der Verflechtung / Practices of entanglement. Züricher Hochschule der Künste, Zürich. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2022), Art based research. TU St. Pölten, Online. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2022), Artistic Research im Kontext der Forschungsförderung. Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, online. [lecture].
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Haarmann A., Lagaay A., Körschkes T., Ivanova P., Bohaumilitzky F. & Scholz B. (2022), Zones of entanglement. Performance Philosophy Problems: How Does Performance Philosophy Collaborate?. UniArts Helsinki, Helsinki. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2022), Impact of artistic research. UniArts Helsinki, Helsinki. [lecture].
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Haarmann A. (2022), Speculative design. Design Center Hamburg, Hamburg. [lecture].
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