Kristian Handberg

Kort præsentation

Postdoc research project: Multiple Modernities: Dream Worlds and World Images in Arts and Culture, 1946-1972 in a collaboration between Department of Arts and Culture, The University of Copenhagen and Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015-2018. 

Interesseområder

Efterkrigstidens kunst og kulturhistorie

Exhibition Histories

Erindringskultur

Retro

Revivalkultur

Primære forskningsområder

Kunsthistorie 

Kulturel Erindring

Kort præsentation

New perspectives on modernism in art and culture, and the heritage of the 20^th century, form the core of my research. My Ph.D. researched retro as a central phenomenon in contemporary culture based on cultural memory and material culture. My current postdoc project with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art explores the new global horizons of the postwar art world and the art historiographical field of multiple modernisms. This also includes a focus on the museum of modern art and exhibition histories as a new approach to art history, which I have developed in peer-reviewed articles, edited volumes, and an international conference held at Louisiana (Multiple Modernisms, 2017).
I have started and coordinated the research group Modernisms at UCPH as a forum for researching and curating 20^th century art. I participate actively in the international research environment for global modernism studies through conferences, academies, and collaborations, including a planned anthology.