Laura López Paniagua

Laura López Paniagua completed her PhD thesis “Memory in the Work of Mike Kelley” (2015), holding both DAAD and Mutua Madrileña scholarships for doctoral studies in Germany (Freie Universität, Berlin, and Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Doctor Europeus). Since 2015, López Paniagua has taught on the subjects of contemporary art, cultures of remembrance, education, philosophy, and psychology of art at Bard College Berlin, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, and the Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg. She lectures internationally, with interventions at institutions such as Barnard College (Columbia University), NYU, MOCAD, and 21er Haus. As an art critic and historian, she frequently collaborates with art journals such as DARDO, and Mousse magazine, and publishes regularly at Eikasia, Revista de filosofía. She often works with artists, art galleries, and institutions such as the Schinkel Pavillon and the Venice Biennale. She has recently published her first monograph, Mike Kelley: Materialist Aesthetics and Memory Illusions (Mousse Publishing, 2020), and is currently working on initiatives that bind sustainability and contemporary art.

Courses taught at Bard College Berlin:

• Contemporary Art and the Anthropocene: Creating Alternative Ways of Conceptualizing and Inhabiting the Planet
• Exceeding the Frame: Approaches to the Contemporary Sublime in Art
• Introduction to Twentieth-Century Art: From Van Gogh’s Starry Night to Jeff Koons’ Made in Heaven
• Academic Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Photo by John Miller

Contact
Dr. Laura López Paniagua
Contemporary Art
l.lopez[at]berlin.bard.edu