Kristian Handberg

Short presentation

Postdocoral research project: Multiple Modernities: Worldviews and Dreamworld in art and culture, 1946-1972 in collaboration with Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2015-2018. 

Fields of interest

Postwar art 

Exhibition Histories

Cultural Memory

Retro

Revival Culture 

Primary fields of research

Art history 

Cultural Memory

Short presentation

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.