Beni Muhl

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 beni.muhl@unifr.ch
 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3118-1911

  • Queer Art History
  • Gender and Sexuality
  • Pop and Post-Pop Art
  • Post-War American Art
  • Appropriation Art
  • Subject Theory

PhD Student SNSF
Department of Art History and Archeology

Biography

Beni Muhl (he/him) is a doctoral student funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). In his dissertation Appropriation and Subjectivity: Rosalyn Drexler, Kathe Burkhart and the Ambivalence of Pop Art, he focuses on alternative subjectivity models and strategies of appropriation by women artists within the mid and late-20th century American counterculture movement. From 2022 through 2024, he was a visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He has earned his master's degree in art history and German studies at the University of Fribourg, with an exchange at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. He has also worked as a curatorial assistant at the Kunstmuseum Luzern (2020-2022) and as a visual arts and literature specialist at the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia (2019-2020).

Research and publications

  • Publications
    11 publications

    Hafis et le Journal matinal: Comment déjouer la mort/Hafis and the Morning Journal: or How to Cheat Death , in Hafis: un monde à traverser
    Beni Muhl (2024), ISBN: 978-2-8399-4446-5 | Book chapter

    Wohin soll es gehen? Eine Reise entlang von Josef Herzogs Kreuzungen und Wendepunkten / And Where To? A Trip along Josef Herzog’s Intersections and Turning Points , in Josef Herzog – Untitled
    (2022), ISBN: 978-3-907236-39-0 | Book chapter

    Die Ordnung der Dinge – Parallelismus / Woher kommen Sie, Herr Holzfäller? – Provenienzforschung / Hickhack – Politische Vereinnahmung / Der Holzfäller als Karikatur , in Hodlers Holzfäller
    (2021), ISBN: 978-3-907291-62-7 | Book chapter