Bojana Kunst

is a philosopher, performance art theorist and dramaturg, full professor at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies, Justus Liebig University Giessen, where she leads the international master program Choreography and Performance.


She lectures and organizes seminars, workshops and laboratories within different academic institutions, theaters and artistic organizations across Europe, and works continuously with independent artistic initiatives, artists, groups and activists. Her research interests are contemporary performance and dance, art theory, performance and politics, gender studies and philosophy of contemporary art.

Her essays appear in numerous journals and publications and she teaches and lectures extensively at various universities in Europe and worldwide. She has published several books and publications, among them
- Nemogoče telo / The Impossible Body (Ljubljana, 1999)
- Nevarne povezave / Dangerous Connections: Body, Philosophy and Relation to the Artificial (Maska, 2004)
- Processes of Work and Collaboration in Contemporary Performance (Ed., Ljubljana, 2006)
- Contemporary Performing Arts (Amfiteater, 2006, ed. with Petra Pogorevc)
- Performance and Labour (Performance Research, 2012, ed. with Gabriele Klein)
- Umetnik na delu (Maska, 2012)
· Artist At Work - Proximity of Art and Capitalism (Zero Books - John Hunt Publishing, 2015)
· Artysta w pracy. O pokrewieństwach sztuki i kapitalizmu (Instytut Teatralny im. Zbigniewa Raszewskiego, 2017)
· Kunstner i arbejde (Carlsbergfondet - Informations Forlag, 2023)
· L'artista al lavoro. Prossimità tra arte e capitalismo (Luca Sossella Editore, 2024)
- Življenje umetnosti: prečne črte skrbi (Maska, 2023) / The Life of Art: Transversal Lines of Care
· Das Leben der Kunst. Transversale Linien der Sorge (transversal texts, 2023)
· Život umjetnosti - poprečne linije brige (Maska, MaMa, Booksa, 2023)
· Artista en obras: De la proximidad entre arte y capitalismo (Ediciones Metales Pesados, 2025)


      


            


2002-2009: Researcher at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy - Aesthetics. Post-doctoral researcher (2002) / Researcher (2004-2009)

2003: Habilitation at the University of Primorska; Philosophy of Visual Culture (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor)

2003-2004: Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium

2009-2012: Visiting Professor / DAAD-Gastprof. at the University of Hamburg, Germany

2012-present: Full Professor at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany, Institute for Applied Theatre Studies / ATW - Institut für Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft


Miscellanea 1995-2004





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