Irène Unholz

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 irene.unholz@unifr.ch
 https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7243-315X

History of contemporary art

  • Art and ecology
  • Artistic strategies and publishing practices
  • Cultural journalism and art criticism
  • Cultural industries and the media economy

Biography

Irène Unholz is a PhD candidate at the University of Fribourg, employed in the SNSF project Real Abstractions. Reconsidering Realism’s Role for the Present led by Prof. Julia Gelshorn and Prof. Wolfgang Brückle. Her research focuses on strategies of simulating and reproducing systems in contemporary art. She studied Art History, Communication and Media Research, and Psychology at the University of Fribourg and FU Berlin. Alongside her academic work, she has been active as a freelance cultural journalist.

Research and publications